pebblespenguin1's review against another edition
4.0
‘The House on Blackstone Moor’ blew me away. This book is so intensely dark and twisted and will take you on a journey that will change you forever. Rose, is a young woman who goes through hell and back nearly literally, her family is brutally murdered by the hands of her own father. After years of being tortured in many ways by her demented father she loses her whole family and before she knows what is happening she is admitted to a insane asylum. She doesn’t know where to turn and who to trust. She just focuses on getting out of the hell whole she calls home for the time being. The only person she really confides in is her doctor, Dr. Bannion and he gets her a job outside of the asylum. She is to a governess to a well-established family, or so it seems.
After she moves in with this family and begins to take care of the children she slowly starts to realize things that are very strange the problem is she has nowhere else to go and she simply adores the children. What is a girl to do when she has no family left and everyone is convinced she is crazy?
This book is so intriguing and dark, it contains so many gothic elements and the story keeps taking so many twists and turns that you will have absolutely no idea what is going to happen next. It is in a certain way a paranormal romance but definitely a lot different than a lot of the other ones out there. I truly could not put this book down, I finished it in three days between going to work, that it how captivating it was. It was amazing and deliciously dark, I loved it.
After she moves in with this family and begins to take care of the children she slowly starts to realize things that are very strange the problem is she has nowhere else to go and she simply adores the children. What is a girl to do when she has no family left and everyone is convinced she is crazy?
This book is so intriguing and dark, it contains so many gothic elements and the story keeps taking so many twists and turns that you will have absolutely no idea what is going to happen next. It is in a certain way a paranormal romance but definitely a lot different than a lot of the other ones out there. I truly could not put this book down, I finished it in three days between going to work, that it how captivating it was. It was amazing and deliciously dark, I loved it.
eserafina42's review
2.0
As other reviewers have said this book didn't actually start out that badly, despite the relatively poor writing (in addition to shaky grammar, this author has an inordinate fondness for the non-word "alright," which sometimes seemed to be on every other page). However, after Rose got to her new place of employment it just went right downhill in a mad whirl of vampires, fallen angels, demons and gypsies - not to mention rape and bloody slaughter.
hetlevenvaneenboekenworm's review against another edition
5.0
you can find my review here
http://mybookaddiction.blogspot.com/2011/03/review-house-on-blackstone-moor-by.html
http://mybookaddiction.blogspot.com/2011/03/review-house-on-blackstone-moor-by.html
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