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Summary: Really Great Read
Review: I really liked this book. I've never read this author before but I picked it up at the library on a whim. I am very pleased! I checked this book out yesterday and just finished it today. I was unable to put it down. I am certain that I am going to add this book to my personal library. This book kept me emotionally evolved from beginning to end and isn't that what books are for? Whether it be joy, sadness or good old fashioned fear (I love roller coaster rides myself!), the sign of a good read is how it made you feel. This book definitely kept me on the edge of my seat and I would recommend it to anyone who loves roller coaster rides! I don't enjoy reading reviews that tell the whole book but then again I never, ever read the back of a book or the inside jacket so I hope it suffices to say that if you read this book, I don't think you'll be disappointed.
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Summary: Don't read it
Review: I think this book is horrible. No wonder it's not on the Bestseller List. The main character is fragile, fainting every five seconds, the relationship between man and wife is unloving, and I can't believe that even once at the end Polly is not thinking of her son that she thinks is caught in the fire, but thinking that she wants Rob to die. If my son was caught in a burning house, i'd go save him, even trying to die. The plot is poor. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: Lousy and absurd.
Review: I'm always excited to see a new horror novel on the shelf. There just aren't enough of them out there these days to satisfy me. And I even enjoy the bad ones if they're fun. This one, however, was awful. I hated every one of the characters by the third or fourth chapter. The female protagonist is overly sensitive, paranoid, sees ominous signs in just about everything, (then obsesses about it for several pages,) and she faints 3 or 4 times before the book is half way through. The husband is a dolt, hot tempered, and also easily offended. The son is just a hateful brat. I guess the author wanted to create "family tensions" as a backdrop to the "spooky happenings" but it was so poorly done and unrealistic you'll hate these melodramatic people half way through the book. And even the supernatural elements are ham-handed and absurd. Over all, an amazingly bad book and really disappointing. ...
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Summary: Could have been much better.
Review: Okay so the plot was a fairly good one. There were a few holes in it (I won't give the story away by explaining them) but at points it was actually gripping and interesting and, dare I say, even scarey at times. However, the same phrase was used over and over and over again and really put a predictable damper on the story. I mean could a smell be described as something other than "cloying", please?? All noises seemed to "set their teeth on edge"...EVERY TIME!! And ditto on the fainting spells. I mean, the lady really needs some iron in her system. It became humorous. I actually considered getting out my highlighter to see just how many times each repeat phrase was mentioned throughout the book. But I knew I didn't have enough time for that.
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Summary: Could have been much better.
Review: Okay so the plot was a fairly good one. There were a few holes in it (I won't give the story away by explaining them) but at points it was actually gripping and interesting and, dare I say, even scarey at times. However, the same phrase was used over and over and over again and really put a predictable damper on the story. I mean could a smell be described as something other than "cloying", please?? All noises seemed to "set their teeth on edge"...EVERY TIME!! And ditto on the fainting spells. I mean, the lady really needs some iron in her system. It became humorous. I actually considered getting out my highlighter to see just how many times each repeat phrase was mentioned throughout the book. But I knew I didn't have enough time for that.
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Summary: Poorly written
Review: Stilted dialogue, hateful cardboard characters, inane plot devices, repetitious paragraphs, and wince-inducing melodrama. What more can I say? The only reason I kept reading it was so I could read aloud particularly painful passages to my husband and have a good laugh.
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Summary: What's a dead girl got to be scared of?
Review: The "heroine" of this story was pretty unlikable. Nothing in the world seemed to make her happy or please her; therefore, it was impossible to empathize with her. She seemed to enjoy her misery in the loss of a baby years earlier and feeling that her husband and everyone else in the world didn't understand her grief. Get therapy, for goodness sake! Her husband was a wimp and his brother, of course, detestable. I also don't understand the reasoning behind the fear of a little dead girl that someone is going to harm her. How can you hurt a dead person? Don't waste your money on this exceedingly disappointing novel.
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Summary: A special horror
Review: The White Room is a new classic tale of horror, thought provoking, disturbing and compellingly readable. The themes are tried and triue, but the depth, and the frights, here seem new, and powerful, as if eerily placed with a caring, spooky hand. If that sounds good, then pick this up, light a cadle, lock the front door...and settle in for a long eve's chilly read...
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Summary: Chilling and filled with despair . . .
Review: The White Room is what an adult horror novel should be. Not "adult" in the sense of graphic-ness, but a horror novel that echoes with the concerns and aching sadness that sometimes touch the lives of all of us who are over the age of twenty-five. Death and loss, despair and depression. The White Room is filled with those things, but before you start thinking that's a bad thing, remember that such masterful pieces of American literature as Larry McMurtry's STREETS OF LAREDO and Stephen King's INSOMNIA are also laden with such themes. This book isn't going to make you smile . . . but it isn't meant to. What it will do is get into your bones in a way that will cast a shroud of unease and eeriness over everything for the time it takes you to read it . . . and for some time after. Really chilling.
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Summary: Buy with caution
Review: This book is good, to a point. It is an enjoyable read, but there are little things that will get on your nerves more and more as the book progresses. The character in the story faints alot. And I mean ALOT. And the husband seems to just take it all with a grain of salt. This is what became a little annoying. If someone you love is fainting nearly twice a day almost every day, you don't just say "Honey are you O.K.?" Other than that, this book was fun to read. I did find myself just wanting to get it over with at the end though.
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