Helpful Score: 1
The book started off great and captured my interest right away. Towards the middle it started to die down but picked back up again around page 175. If you can hold on until then, it gets back to the good parts and it's really scary/eerie. I like the writing style. Each sentence flowed together beautifully. Once you get 3 quarters of the way through the book, you won't want to put it down.
Helpful Score: 1
This was my first book by Tanarive Due. It definately won't be my last. The book grabs you from page one and doesn't let go until the very last word.It has a little of everything. Suspense, romance, murder. You name it its there.
I thought this novel was excellent. It's horrific, creepy but also has excellent characterization.
Amazon Review:
In The Good House, acclaimed novelist Tananarive Due enters classic Stephen King territory. Her novel, set in a small Northern town, centers on a haunted house under a deadly curse. But don't let the comparison scare you: This dark, imaginative, skillfully written page-turner is a novel only Tananarive Due could write.
Early in the Twentieth Century, a powerful voodoo priestess followed her guiding spirit from New Orleans to a small town in Washington State. But in pride and anger, Marie Toussaint unleashed a new--and very different--spirit. Now, ignorant of both her heritage and the curse, Angela Toussaint returns to her dead Grandmother Marie's house, seeking to heal her fractured relationships with her son and her husband. But the malicious spirit wishes only the destruction of the Toussaints; and as it did in her grandmother's day, it inflicts horrific death and destruction upon the isolated town. Soon Angela has lost almost everyone she loves; and she must somehow uncover the
Amazon Review:
In The Good House, acclaimed novelist Tananarive Due enters classic Stephen King territory. Her novel, set in a small Northern town, centers on a haunted house under a deadly curse. But don't let the comparison scare you: This dark, imaginative, skillfully written page-turner is a novel only Tananarive Due could write.
Early in the Twentieth Century, a powerful voodoo priestess followed her guiding spirit from New Orleans to a small town in Washington State. But in pride and anger, Marie Toussaint unleashed a new--and very different--spirit. Now, ignorant of both her heritage and the curse, Angela Toussaint returns to her dead Grandmother Marie's house, seeking to heal her fractured relationships with her son and her husband. But the malicious spirit wishes only the destruction of the Toussaints; and as it did in her grandmother's day, it inflicts horrific death and destruction upon the isolated town. Soon Angela has lost almost everyone she loves; and she must somehow uncover the
I didn't like this book as much as I thought I would. It is still a good book. Entertaining and fast. Kept my attention for a couple of hours. The one outstanding thing about it is the dialogue. It is as natural as can be, and I could hear the conversations as if I were eavesdropping in a normal house. However there wasn't much mystery in it for me and, without spoiling, the strong, intelligent main character should have been able to skip chapters when she saw the bus years later. And I felt sorry for the poodle. Enough said.
not as scary as i would have liked, but a good read
