In this case, I will say that I don't want to compare Brookins to other others in the genre, but I will just to give you a feel. terrorĭana Brookins most definately has the chops to write modern horror. This in no way affected nor influenced my thoughts.
I was given this audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
He was clear and easy to listen to and I'll have to check out more from him. He was able to capture the personalities of the characters easily and bring each of them to life. Jeffery Lynn Hutchins did a good job reading this. I didn't like when the rich lady rolls up and they were all shocked that she was black! I know it's set in the past, but still!! Yet despite the negatives, I was still strangely enthralled with the story!! I liked some of the characters, I liked the atmosphere and the way the author builds up to the house, I liked the fact that the house had an effect on everyone and I liked the twist there was! I actually read this quickly enough and did end up enjoying it. There's the obligatory "white trash" with a load of kids, a disabled child that the community feels like it needs to help and a few other characters that had me rolling my eyes. Another thing that annoyed me was the whole town felt like a cliched kind of town.
Maybe there's another one lined up, but I wish this had ended better. I liked the build up to the house, and when something interesting happens with it, it was fast paced, but every other part was slow going and for the most part boring. I feel like this could have been so much better had it been told by one person rather than so many! I also found the pacing to be hit or miss. It felt like it was chopping and changing too much for any of the characters to be fully developed!! I didn't connect to most of them and didn't really care what happened them. The main thing that bugged me was the number of POVs. So this book was good.ish! There were some positives but more negatives yet overall I enjoyed the plot enough to finish it! I'll get the bad out of the way first.
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