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Summary: the most terrifying ghost story I have ever read
Review: Ammie Come Home is fantastic---a book you won't be able to put down and one which will ensure that you sleep with the lights on for at least a week! Ruth is a widow living in Georgetown when her college-age niece Sara comes to stay. Ruth reluctantly agrees to host a dinner party/seance which will feature a famous medium. Ruth and her guests who include Sara's anthropology professor, Pat, do not believe in ghosts but the seance stirs up old memories in the house. Sara becomes possessed by the spirit of Ammie---a young girl who lived in the house during the Revolutionary War. Michael's depiction of Sara---and her possession by Ammie---are done amazingly well. Ammie is as real a character as Sara and yet the changes which occur in Sara are subtle. Ammie has taken over Sara for a reason---and Sara, Ruth, Pat and Sara's boyfriend, Bruce, all must work to discover who Ammie is, what she wants and whether they can help her. As always, Michaels does a great job. The characters are real and the absurd situation in which they find themselves also seems surprisingly real. This is probably what makes the story so chilling---seeing ordinary lives disrupted by the extraordinary. Buy this! You will not regret it!
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Summary: the most terrifying ghost story I have ever read
Review: Ammie Come Home is fantastic---a book you won't be able to put down and one which will ensure that you sleep with the lights on for at least a week! Ruth is a widow living in Georgetown when her college-age niece Sara comes to stay. Ruth reluctantly agrees to host a dinner party/seance which will feature a famous medium. Ruth and her guests who include Sara's anthropology professor, Pat, do not believe in ghosts but the seance stirs up old memories in the house. Sara becomes possessed by the spirit of Ammie---a young girl who lived in the house during the Revolutionary War. Michael's depiction of Sara---and her possession by Ammie---are done amazingly well. Ammie is as real a character as Sara and yet the changes which occur in Sara are subtle. Ammie has taken over Sara for a reason---and Sara, Ruth, Pat and Sara's boyfriend, Bruce, all must work to discover who Ammie is, what she wants and whether they can help her. As always, Michaels does a great job. The characters are real and the absurd situation in which they find themselves also seems surprisingly real. This is probably what makes the story so chilling---seeing ordinary lives disrupted by the extraordinary. Buy this! You will not regret it!
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Summary: SUPER!
Review: Any Barbara Michaels fan who has read Shattered Silk knows and loves the formidable Pat MacDougal, his shy but sweet wife Ruth, and his overly eccentric mother- Mrs. Jackson MacDougal. And if you arent already farmiliar with them you can grow to love them now, for they are some of the main characters in Barbara Michaels supreme novel- Ammie, Come Home. This is most definitely a must read. Plenty of mystery, a touch of romance. Just right to warm your heart and soul. :)
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Summary: Classic supernatural mystery
Review: Barbara Michaels is a master, and this book is one of her finest. Ruth Bennett invites her niece Sara to stay at her historic Georgetown house. Starting with a seance, the past apears to manifest through Sara. Is she going mad, or is it something else? Sara's boyfriend Bruce leads an investigation into the house's history - and finds the key to understanding what is happening to, and through, Sara. This is a classic ghost story, that I have read and reread over the years. Very enjoyable book.
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Summary: Classic supernatural mystery
Review: Barbara Michaels is a master, and this book is one of her finest. Ruth Bennett invites her niece Sara to stay at her historic Georgetown house. Starting with a seance, the past apears to manifest through Sara. Is she going mad, or is it something else? Sara's boyfriend Bruce leads an investigation into the house's history - and finds the key to understanding what is happening to, and through, Sara. This is a classic ghost story, that I have read and reread over the years. Very enjoyable book.
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Summary: Ammie Come Home
Review: Barbara Michaels weaves a web of supernatural "reality" around a 1960s era Washington, DC suburban neighborhood. The web is so well woven, so gripping, that you don't want to escape. Fiction becomes reality as the presence of a malevolent evil focuses in on an innocent teenager and her aunt. Read this one with the lights on and don't be surprised if the chill creeping up your spine doesn't come from the temperature in the room. I was 14 years old the first time I "met" Barbara Michaels in a Readers Digest Condensed Book and "Ammie Come Home" was our introduction. Since that time, I haved read every book she has written, including those written under other names and have kept every one of them. I finally managed to find my own paperback copy of "Ammie Come Home" - in fact I have two- one is so dog-eared from my years of reading it sits on the book shelf like an antique porcelain doll. That one is just to look at. The other I share with my 20 year-old daughter, as I share all my books. When it comes to creating a haunting presence, there's no one like Barbara Michaels.
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Summary: Can't put it down!
Review: I read this book all yesterday. What if I missed something? A young niece comes to live with her aunt and go to school in 1960's Georgetown; she becomes in tune with the "cold spot" in the living room....etc. Full of ghostly encounters and researching historical/local sources to track down what may have happened to cause the haunting. There is the typical set up of two couples in a haunted house (romance)and a big load of arguments coming from a young student and an anthropology professor. Bascially, HONESTLY quite alot of this book is about the deduction and means of a haunting, from "psychological" and "anthropological" aspects, among others. Barbara Michaels is having fun arguing with herself on the possibility and plausibility of ghosts. How to explain them? It almost is like shes trying to convince herself, in paperback form, of why she should believe in something that shes profitted from. The fictional SUPERNATURAL! Around this argument, is the backdrop of the 60's and the hippie generation. Its interesting---what a time and place to write; however, I was not part of that era, so I can only get tantalizing snipets from a seemingly first hand account of the scariness of the 60s and 70s. Yikes! But the two young people aren't too bad, just your average, ageless college students. HONESTLY, the book will keep you enthralled and you can skip over the deduction stuff if you wanna; if you already believe in GHOSTS and just wanna have a good time. Its a good one; not her best but not her worst.
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Summary: Among Scariest Books I Ever read!
Review: I, like the reviewer just before me, read this book many, many years ago. It sticks in my mind years later as one of the scariest and creepiest books I ever read. I remember lying on the bed in my son's room late at night so I would not disturb my husband who was asleep in our bedroom, and almost feeling a presence in the room with me, the writing is so powerful! I can remember being so afraid that I was scared to walk down the hall to our room after I finished it! I remember the details, but will not go into them here for lack of space, just take my word that it is an extremely good story and will give you chill bumps for years to come! It is one of the many reasons that I love Barbara Michaels' books to this day, and I have read almost every one she has written, with the exception of one, which I just ordered and I don't know how I missed it!
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Summary: A spine tingling ghost storie that makes you believe
Review: It has been a long time since I have read Ammie, Come Home, but it is a book I will never forget. Barbara Michaels draws interesting characters in vivid reality, and then slowly introduces the ghostly presences that threaten their lives. In many tales, writers have a hard time making you believe...Barbara Michaels does it so well this book lingers in my mind decades after I read it.
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Summary: A spine tingling ghost storie that makes you believe
Review: It has been a long time since I have read Ammie, Come Home, but it is a book I will never forget. Barbara Michaels draws interesting characters in vivid reality, and then slowly introduces the ghostly presences that threaten their lives. In many tales, writers have a hard time making you believe...Barbara Michaels does it so well this book lingers in my mind decades after I read it.
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