Amity
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781606843802 (160684380X)
Publish date: August 26th 2014
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
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...