Ghost House

Rating:
Summary: A Ghostly Story deserves great outcomes
Review: A great book. Keeps you reading, and on the edge of your seat. Has lots of twists in it. It displays events that occur in everyday life, with different reactions taken to each problem by different people. Lets just say if you like ghost stories this is the book for you.

I really enjoyed this book because it gave me insight on different problems and different ways to handle them.

Rating:
Summary: A Ghostly Story deserves great outcomes
Review: A great book. Keeps you reading, and on the edge of your seat. Has lots of twists in it. It displays events that occur in everyday life, with different reactions taken to each problem by different people. Lets just say if you like ghost stories this is the book for you.

I really enjoyed this book because it gave me insight on different problems and different ways to handle them.

Rating:
Summary: SPIRIT-LESSLY ENTERTAINING
Review: High camp saves this otherwise trite-of-a-story of a family coming face to face with their newly acquired home's specter, which has eyes only for the lady of the house.

What could have been just a fun little grade-B horror novel a la Amityville goes one step further by being so over-the-top with its ludicrous plot and characterization that the reader can't help but being highly entertained by it. No chills, no thrills, but plenty of silly vignettes make GHOST HOUSE a hoot. The author may be clueless in making a scene work but, boy, what an ace she is in creating unintentional laughter !

Take Gary, for example, the heroine's husband but also the main focus of the ghost's wrath. From being "pushed" down the stairs to falling down a window, McNally makes sure nothing is spared for him. So much repeatedly so you'll wish she'd put him out of his misery for good. What's even worse is the heroine's uncharacteristic nature. She's described as an overly sensitive artist (she paints), yet she can't even sense that she's making passionate love one night to an English accent speaking (!) ghost, not to her husband. The only character saved (well, almost) from all this nonsense is the librarian. She comes about being a judicious career gal with a heart--up until McNally puts her in a unlikely situation : who in their right mind would nonchalantly still go disco dancing after witnessing a supernatural near-death experience ?

Thank heavens, this form of hilarity goes on and on, up until the ultimate braindead but perfect ending where not's all well that ends well. A must for laughs.-----Martin Boucher

Rating:
Summary: SPIRIT-LESSLY ENTERTAINING
Review: High camp saves this otherwise trite-of-a-story of a family coming face to face with their newly acquired home's specter, which has eyes only for the lady of the house.

What could have been just a fun little grade-B horror novel a la Amityville goes one step further by being so over-the-top with its ludicrous plot and characterization that the reader can't help but being highly entertained by it. No chills, no thrills, but plenty of silly vignettes make GHOST HOUSE a hoot. The author may be clueless in making a scene work but, boy, what an ace she is in creating unintentional laughter !

Take Gary, for example, the heroine's husband but also the main focus of the ghost's wrath. From being "pushed" down the stairs to falling down a window, McNally makes sure nothing is spared for him. So much repeatedly so you'll wish she'd put him out of his misery for good. What's even worse is the heroine's uncharacteristic nature. She's described as an overly sensitive artist (she paints), yet she can't even sense that she's making passionate love one night to an English accent speaking (!) ghost, not to her husband. The only character saved (well, almost) from all this nonsense is the librarian. She comes about being a judicious career gal with a heart--up until McNally puts her in a unlikely situation : who in their right mind would nonchalantly still go disco dancing after witnessing a supernatural near-death experience ?

Thank heavens, this form of hilarity goes on and on, up until the ultimate braindead but perfect ending where not's all well that ends well. A must for laughs.-------Martin Boucher