One of four iconic American Haunted House novels. This book is like nothing Siddons ever wrote before or since. Her milieu is generally the contemporary New South, Old South social drama. Set in suburban Atlanta (think Buckhead), the modernist upper middle class shack that goes up next to the Kenned...
I just finished this book after a rainy Saturday...and I'm still trying to process how I feel about it. In other reviews I have read that some liked the first half of the book better; the second half fell flat for them. Well for me it was the other way around. When Molly found the 'camp' Up Isla...
This was not really what I was expecting, but I liked it quite a lot. I was expecting something along the lines of a traditional ghost story, but, instead, I got something similar to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House... but better, in my opinion. The two books share quite a bit of ambigui...
2.5 starsI struggled a bit rating this one. Sometimes it was 2 stars, sometimes 3 stars and then sometimes it fell in between. I don’t think there was a point where I didn’t like it, but the narrator, Colquitt, and even some of the neighbors got on my nerves plenty of times. Colquitt, for the most p...
Overall, a pretty good book. I wouldn't call it outright scary, but it is pretty suspenseful, and the author does a good job of slowly escalating the tension until the end of the book. We see the events that transpire at the house next door through the eyes of Colquitt Kennedy (our narrator) and h...
I have to be honest..I think I was expecting more out of this book than what I read. I have heard about this book as being really creepy for a while, so I was eager to read it..I really didn't find it that creepy, so I ended up being a bit disappointed in it.
I really enjoyed this one - Siddons has a great way of telling a story with a lot of detail - but not making it feel like too much. She sucks you in so you feel like you're there. It wasn't as creepy and suspenseful as I had hoped, but it did give me chills in the end. Overall a very good book.
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