ayoniki's review
4.0
I read it for the first time when I was around 14, and it just blew my adolescent impressionable mind.
I re-read it once (or twice) some time in my 20s, and I was less impressed maybe, but it still gave me chills. So much chills I slept with the light on for a couple of nights. Oh, all those "the shadows in the corner moved a little", how I love them!
And now I'm reading it again and I'm over 30, haha, and my reading background is wider, so yeah, I see the problems of this book, its repetitiveness and inconsistencies, its going way longer than it should... But still chills! Not so much maybe (no sleeping with the light on this time) but still!
So yeah, it is my guilty pleasure and it deserves 4 stars anyway :)
I re-read it once (or twice) some time in my 20s, and I was less impressed maybe, but it still gave me chills. So much chills I slept with the light on for a couple of nights. Oh, all those "the shadows in the corner moved a little", how I love them!
And now I'm reading it again and I'm over 30, haha, and my reading background is wider, so yeah, I see the problems of this book, its repetitiveness and inconsistencies, its going way longer than it should... But still chills! Not so much maybe (no sleeping with the light on this time) but still!
So yeah, it is my guilty pleasure and it deserves 4 stars anyway :)
jfontan1066's review
2.0
I love a good haunted house story, but this did not scratch the itch. Too long and repetitive in places and thus, dull. Also, I think I am really coming to hate the trope of the woman being labelled as a mental case and disbelieved by the men in their lives while OBVIOUS wrongness is occurring. I see it way too often at this point. I'm sad, because this wasn't poorly written, but definitely far too reliant on some worn-out tropes.
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