This House Is Haunted
by:
Alison Larkin (author)
John Boyne (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781452667423 (145266742X)
Publish date: October 21st 2013
Publisher: Tantor Media
Edition language: English
“This House is Haunted” is a book about a haunted house. Surprise, surprise! The ingenuity of the title should have given me an inkling about the quality of the book. But since I was in the mood for a haunted house story and John Boyne is a well-beloved author, I decided to give it a try. To put i...
I'm not exactly sure what I just read. If it was supposed to be satire, it didn't take the parody far enough. If it was supposed to be serious . . . well . . . oh dear. Let's just say I'm hoping it was supposed to be satire. Either way, it missed the mark on Gothic spookiness, even though it tried s...
Being the time of year for a nice cozy spooky read. I was happy to have come across a nice Victorian ghost story and with the title alone being a complete spoiler I hoped for a nice read. This book is pretty standard Gothic novel from a haunted house, scary kids, and a poor overworked underpaid gove...
[H]indsight is a wonderful thing, but I look back now and I think of that moment, I think of Alex and Madge Toxley standing there on the platform at Thorpe Station and I want to scream at them, I want to run and shake them, I want to look them squarely in their faces and say, you knew, you knew even...
A nice read that could have been a great one if the author had put more effort in it.
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