by Micol Ostow
I was really, really looking forward to this book. I always had a fascination for the Amity house and the stories that surround it. Sadly this book was not meant to be.The house and the details about the murder that took place in the real Amity were all great and I really had goosebumps, reading abo...
Amity is based on, you guessed it, The Amityville Horror. Wonderfully disturbing, it was easy to get sucked right in to Amity's dark charms. I loved this new take on the story. While all the bones of the actual story are there, the new elements added and the two seperate versions of how the house ...
(I got a copy courtesy of NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.)I watched the Amityville movie some 20 years ago, and never read the book, so I won't comment much on how faithful to the original story this novel is... or how it diverged from it. I remember some elements (the red room, charact...
ehhhhhh? Not particularly what I was hoping it would be. review to come.
The word eerie doesn't even cover this book, it's more like morbid. Micol Ostow writes a horror novel that is so visually descriptive that it chills you to the bone. The characters are surprisingly three dimensional, which you don't really expect in this kind of book. The flash backs between the two...
Simply, Amity is an old-fashioned haunted house story. In true haunted house fashion, the house has an insidious history, the townspeople avoid the site but refuse to warn newcomers about it, and the house becomes a character in its own right. The twist is that readers get to see two separate but co...
Synopsis: Connor's family moves to Amity to escape shady business deals. Ten years later, Gwen's family moves to Amity for a fresh start after she's recovered from a psychotic break. But something is not right about this secluded house. Connor's nights are plagued with gore-filled dreams of demons...
I received a copy from Netgalley.I'm not really sure how to review this one. A lot of the time I couldn't decide if I was fascinated by this book or if I hated it. The story is told from the point of view of two teens ten years apart, Conner and Gwen both of whom move into the Amity House. Initial t...
To be published-8/24/2014 I was actually fairly surprised by how much I liked Amity. It had a bit of a viscerally poetic feel too it. It added more of what I actually wanted to see from other books on the happenings at Amity. It was throughly creepy and disturbing, all the while making the story ...
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