The Haunting

Rating:
Summary: One star is overrating this book
Review: This book was intriging at first glance - a haunted house and a girl determined to drive out the ghost. However,as a mystery story and a horror story, it fails miserably. Most of the book is the introduction of characters, plot, and setting. It is only in the last chapter that she actually enters the haunted house at night- when the ghost comes out. All that happens is wind, whispering, scary plaster faces, and one character tripping. Oh, the horror. She finally finds out why the ghost was there and tells it to leave. The ghost's reason for staying was basically a re-enactment of a Poe tale. One of the two books that held clues to the mystery was a book of Poe's tales, but the author could have been a lot more creative.

Rating:
Summary: Captivating? NO!!!
Review: This book was okay. That's as much as I can say without delving too deep. Eh, what the hey. The book had the allure of a good read. And it was a good read to some extent. It was something that didn't take long at all to read. I give this book two stars because of it's failure to truly captivate MY imagination. Surely this book gave great detail and would ultimately ensnare the imaginations of others. This book seems to be directed more towards a fourth grade class. My class was assigned this book. My FRESHMAN class. I think if it were rewritten, the next version would be quite a bit better. I DO recommend it to those who are younger than I! Perhaps fifth grade and under! Not any older! Please! Spare them the agony! I read this book in about 60 minutes total. I could guess the ending by chapter two I think. There's what, maybe sixteen chapters? I wish all those who willrad this in the future a "Good Luck."

Rating:
Summary: AWESOME!!!!
Review: This book was the first JLN book I read. Me and my fellow 7th grade classmates were assigned to read this book. I absolutely loved it!! I couldn't stop reading it!!! Even if we were only allowed to read up to Ch. 4, for example, I would read on to Ch. 9!!! I got hooked into it from the very beginning, and now I have read every other Joan Lowery Nixon book I can get my hands on!

Rating:
Summary: Easy Read...
Review: This book wasnt all that good. It was very easy and simple to read...but the introduction is way too long. The book starts to actually get flowing in the last 20 pages or so, but then it ends abruptly. You naver figure out what happens after. Maybe it's because it was a book for school, but I didn't like it that much...

Rating:
Summary: Bone Shattering Scary
Review: This book will keep you up all night making sure there is no faces on the walls and no ghost is sitting beside you. You will be sleeping under the covers with a 500wat bulb on. What are you waiting for?¿? Get this book!!!

Rating:
Summary: Recomended if you like horrors!!
Review: This is a book about a girl named Lia who's great grandmother dies and leaves an old plantation house to her mother, who wants to adopt children and live in the house, even after they read Charlotte Belvins diary. Lia starts encountering strange things in the house, the walls talk,but her mom has a logical explanation for everything. Will Lia ever find out what's causing it, even with the clue Charlotte's grandpa left?

Rating:
Summary: Petrifying suspense...Excellent choice for young adults
Review: Very scary...Once you pick it up you won't want to put it down...Good enough to read more than 1 time...Joan is a great author and shows great creativity with this book...I give it 5 stars all the way..

Rating:
Summary: Haunting- Same Old, Same Old
Review: When I first picked up the Haunting, I expected to be scared. I'm not one for scary stories. But what I got when I read the Haunting was not scary, but the same over-used plot I'd heard so many times before. We all have heard it- the parents want to move away, and the child doesn't want to leave her own home. Only this time the home is Haunted and there is some historical aspects thrown into the mix. And of course, there are the normal business men and women that want to make the house into a nursing home. It sounded like a little kids movie. And it wasn't scary. It would've been a little frightening if it wasn't so predictable- the same thing happened to every character when they entered the house. It got really repetitive. The characters could have been more vibrant, too- the main character was bland and the mom got a little annoying. The only thing I could say for the story was that it was enjoyable to see which exotic character would sneak up on them next!! But overall, I wasn't really crazy about it. It followed a forseeable pattern that needed to be spiced up by some action. Better luck next time!