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Summary: Good Idea. Brain Dead Characters.
Review: How many times have you read a novel and found it quite good, except for one fatal flaw? Well, my friends, this was one of those times for me.This book was okay. It wasn't "Ammie Come Home" wonderful but it wasn't unreadable either. I even managed to tolerate the, mercifully subdued, depiction of a five-year-old girl being disembowelled. It was goin' good then BAM! Out of nowhere characters who had been given every warning that something was wrong in this house decided to bring two young children into it. The main character, a woman named Katie actually allows her neice to keep a doll that she has every reason to believe is...well let's just say she aint Raggedy Ann. It might have made sense had the Katie character been secretly malignant but she wasn't. Just stupid. Katie wasn't the only idiot in the book either. These poor children had a mother who seemed to feel that sleeping in the same room with her babies would bring the world to a screeching halt. In itself this view isn't so bad but what about when mom has just stared into the eyes of a long dead woman whose glare eminates hate and evil? And the fun goes on and on. By the end of the book, when Katie (Who should have known this better than ANYONE) actually wonders where the ghost could have hidden the missing child even my cat was caughing up hairballs of impatient frustration. It's a miracle ANY one got out alive. ...Including my cat.
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Summary: The haunting
Review: I loved it! It was very gripping and suspenseful! It actually made me feel like I was running with the charecters! Like I could hear the eerie hum of the children in her dreams! A must buy for thrill seakers that don't want to leave there comfy chairs that will soon feel as cold as the chains in the book! GREAT!
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Summary: The haunting
Review: I loved it! It was very gripping and suspenseful! It actually made me feel like I was running with the charecters! Like I could hear the eerie hum of the children in her dreams! A must buy for thrill seakers that don't want to leave there comfy chairs that will soon feel as cold as the chains in the book! GREAT!
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Summary: Sheer addictive terror that stays with the reader.
Review: I read this book and for weeks my thought and dreams kept going back to the house. Feeling the need to go back in, I re-read the book slowly, experiencing every scene, the fear, the terror. Soon the house and Bad Things crept into my nightmares. This would make the best movie ever!
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Summary: An unoriginal, almost laughable read
Review: I was expecting to be deliciously frightened while reading this book, based on its reviews on amazon. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a banal story with the expected twists and turns that one can find in any mediocre horror novel. The characters were not fleshed out, especially Ms. Theodora, and the ending was simply awful. Moreover, the book left too many questions unanswered. If you want to be scared, please do not waste your money and time on this book.
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Summary: Flat lining
Review: If Thin Lizzy were a book, this would be it. Ruby Jeans Jensen, the unrelenting queen of grocery store literature, claws her way into the new millennium exploring many of the haunting, tormented and exotic motifs that have come to announce her trademark style.
Easily dismissible as a one-title writer Jensen has remained firmly committed to a deep probing of some of horror's most little used props. Each page is awash with ignored warning bells and dolls gone haywire in what many would consider a simple combo of re-hash and unreadable drivel. It is important to note, however, that while many of these themes and even characters (who could miss a re-vamped Kat from The Living Evil, given a nitro-kit-lo-fi makeup job for her newest incarnation as Katie) have long been the staple in the Ruby-Jeans diet.
It is her careful examination of our insatiable thirst for the sixth-sense and, ultimately, our failure to attain it that renders the work important. Like Monet and his Technicolor haystacks, Ruby-Jeans at once documents and reaches out to our Pyrrhic march towards this elusive goal giving us an album of otherworldly snapshots by which we chart our progress.
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Summary: Creepy, Gothic Horror!
Review: It is unfortunate that this novel has the same title as last summers horror film fiasco. This is a truly creepy, look over your shoulder, late night horror novel. Basically, the house is haunted by demonic creatures which have been conjured up by a former occupant of the house. Jensen reveals just enough details about the creatures to make your skin crawl. If you think you have this novel figured out in the first fifty pages, think again. The author know how to throw in twists. The characters you are sure will survive don't make it. I can't tell you much without spoiling the suprises, but if you like novels by Muriel Grey, John Saul or Richard Laymon you will enjoy this 'Haunting'.
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Summary: could have been better
Review: J is actually giving us two books in one. the first part is about a mute guy that moves to his aunt's. this guy is definitely the worst part of the tsory. j spends ages trying to make us develop sympathy for the guy. I got it the first time. after wading to his unfortunate fortune, the story finally develops. there is something spooky about the aunt. she is not what she appears to be. what happened to the last guy who worked there and suddenly disappeared? and what is it that the little girl is scared of. i can't give away more, but there's a second part where a family moves in the house. there are some good descriptions here, and despite the mute, there is some suspence too. all in all it works out, though there are some loose threads. i'll give it a weak 3.
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Summary: I'm HAUNTED by the fact that THE HAUNTING ever got published
Review: Part one of this novel is quite interesting and contains the horror that the reader is seeking. However, once the characters Katrina, Eddie, and Angie no longer on the scene, the book dies. Part two have the main characters running all over the house that was focal in part one. Upstairs, downstairs, in the dungeon, the first floor, the balcony, the third floor, the second floor, the hallway, the stairway, the porch, etc.etc. Believe me, you'll need your motion sickness medicine to help you through this book.
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Summary: A wonderful CLASSIC gothic...
Review: Ruby Jean Jensen has done it again! THE HAUNTING is Ruby'sfavorite novel she has written and it is apparent why. The book issplendidly written and very terrifying! It's hard to find traditional gothic horror stories with a modern "twist". All horror fans will LOVE this book! END
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