Rating: Summary: Bone Chilling Encounters With the Unknown and Unexplained Review: Bravo on a job well done. I usually do not pick up ghost books, but it was recommended by a friend who said I would love it and she was right. The author's view of various encounters were bone chilling and quite honestly a bit too spooky for comfort, but I couldn't put it down! Can't wait for another book by Dr. Pernel Dove as her writing style is crisp, focused and fanciful at the same time.
Rating: Summary: Intense and Intruging Reading! Review: I bought this book from the author and I am not sorry I did. The ghost are wicked, the characters are well developed and the book is totally awesome. Reminds me of Poe's writing style with the short story settings. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good ghost story
Rating: Summary: My own Review Review: I had to laugh when I read the review of the book from Reviewer 100. The person spelled the authors name wrong, Penny Love instead of Penny Dove and also called the story the Kissing Hag instead of the Sissing Hag. I had to wonder if they even read the book since they had so much trouble with spelling. Personally I thought the book was great. The author states the book is taken from old ghost legends so to change the stories would change the legends. I did not find the book offensive but found it to be scary, intriguing and basically a lot like old stories told around camp fires about ghost. I enjoyed the book and have recommended it to friends.
Rating: Summary: My own Review Review: I had to laugh when I read the review of the book from Reviewer 100. The person spelled the authors name wrong, Penny Love instead of Penny Dove and also called the story the Kissing Hag instead of the Sissing Hag. I had to wonder if they even read the book since they had so much trouble with spelling. Personally I thought the book was great. The author states the book is taken from old ghost legends so to change the stories would change the legends. I did not find the book offensive but found it to be scary, intriguing and basically a lot like old stories told around camp fires about ghost. I enjoyed the book and have recommended it to friends.
Rating: Summary: Best Thriller I've read in years! Review: I pre ordered this book from the internet. The book is full of twist and turns. The stories stay with you after you read them. This book is great! They style of writing is intesnse, the characters well developed and the suspense is totally thrilling. Looking fordward to more Dr. Dove!
Rating: Summary: Awesome Book!! Review: I recently purchased this book and I am not sorry I did. The book is great! The stories scared the daylights out of me. It is well written, flows easily and is great reading. I have recommended this book to all of my friends. The stories remind me a lot of POE with the dramatic turn of events taking place in them. The author touches on every single nerve you have right up to the last one. Great reading and I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a good ghost story.
Rating: Summary: Bone Chilling Encounters With the Unknown and Unexplained Review: I wanted to take a moment to thank all of the people who have written reviews on my book, Ghost. Your time is greatly appreciated. I also want to thank my publisher, Rose International Publishing House Inc., for the wonderful job they did on the design, layout and editing of this book. My publisher is a very kind, warm hearted and gentle person who has gone the extra mile for me and kept me having faith in myself and my writing even when I was discouraged. I have given this book a five star rating, not for myself, but for my Publisher and for all of you who have taken the time to post a review for the book. Again, I thank each and every one of you and I am glad that you enjoy the book. Dr. Penny Dove
Rating: Summary: Really awful stories Review: Rarely have I come across an author as energetic as Penny Love, who claims to be an "internationally recognized psychic." She'll do anything to get her reader's attention. If you see her heave a beer bottle at your head, get out of the way because the piano is going to come flying at you next. Let me illustrate her technique from her first story: "The Kissing Hag." Not only is a pregnant woman buried alive in this story, she is put in her coffin with her legs tied together so that she can't give birth before she dies. So she smashes the coffin lid and performs a Caesarian on herself with a splinter of wood. She cuts the umbilical cord, thrusts the baby out onto the ground and dies. Someone hears the baby crying in the moonlight, picks it up and carries it off without noticing anything else unusual in the immediate area (like a hand or a coffin lid sticking out of the ground). How did Stephen King manage to miss a plot like this? The author tells a very visual story, with earthworms slithering out of eyesockets and hands that are shoved through rotting chests. Nothing is left to the imagination of the reader. The ghosts are quite talkative (maybe I should say 'hissative' because they usually hiss their words). While the ordinary characters are sobbing or screaming or vomiting with disgust, the ghost is in their face, hissing out its need to torment them. The ghost's story of violent death usually plays out through a form of hypnosis that starts with, 'Look deeply into my eyesockets...' An amazing number of people get beaten to death, gang-raped, drowned, and buried alive in this book. If you are looking for subtlety, characterization, or any of the gentler emotions in your supernatural stories, I suggest you look elsewhere.
Rating: Summary: Really awful stories Review: Rarely have I come across an author as energetic as Penny Love, who claims to be an "internationally recognized psychic." She'll do anything to get her reader's attention. If you see her heave a beer bottle at your head, get out of the way because the piano is going to come flying at you next. Let me illustrate her technique from her first story: "The Kissing Hag." Not only is a pregnant woman buried alive in this story, she is put in her coffin with her legs tied together so that she can't give birth before she dies. So she smashes the coffin lid and performs a Caesarian on herself with a splinter of wood. She cuts the umbilical cord, thrusts the baby out onto the ground and dies. Someone hears the baby crying in the moonlight, picks it up and carries it off without noticing anything else unusual in the immediate area (like a hand or a coffin lid sticking out of the ground). How did Stephen King manage to miss a plot like this? The author tells a very visual story, with earthworms slithering out of eyesockets and hands that are shoved through rotting chests. Nothing is left to the imagination of the reader. The ghosts are quite talkative (maybe I should say 'hissative' because they usually hiss their words). While the ordinary characters are sobbing or screaming or vomiting with disgust, the ghost is in their face, hissing out its need to torment them. The ghost's story of violent death usually plays out through a form of hypnosis that starts with, 'Look deeply into my eyesockets...' An amazing number of people get beaten to death, gang-raped, drowned, and buried alive in this book. If you are looking for subtlety, characterization, or any of the gentler emotions in your supernatural stories, I suggest you look elsewhere.
Rating: Summary: Awesome Ghost stories Review: This book is an excellent collection of 15 ghost stories. The reader will not be disappointed since no two stories are alike. Each story has its own spookey setting and thrilling uniqueness. I absolutely recommend this book and have recommended it to my friemds and family to enjoy.
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