A review by kirkw1972
A House of Ghosts by William Ryan, W.C. Ryan
4.0
This is one of those books where I'm glad I didn't read the reviews online on certain sites first because there didn't seem to be a lot of love for it and for me it wasn't as bad as I would have thought reading the reviews.
It does have a good feel for And Then There Were None to it in the set up of the book. You can see the house and surrounding island so well. It was't hard to picture it at all. There's a lot less people die on this though and it has a lot more ghosts. I quite liked the added addition of ghosts pottering about the place giving a bit of atmosphere even if ultimately they didn't do much and they weren't overly scary.
I enjoyed the story, I liked trying to guess who was doing the haunting and where all the red herrings went to. I liked the setting of World War One and the back story to how some of the people arrived at the house and I enjoyed the 2 main characters.
Overall not a bad book for a lazy Sunday afternoon of reading
It does have a good feel for And Then There Were None to it in the set up of the book. You can see the house and surrounding island so well. It was't hard to picture it at all. There's a lot less people die on this though and it has a lot more ghosts. I quite liked the added addition of ghosts pottering about the place giving a bit of atmosphere even if ultimately they didn't do much and they weren't overly scary.
I enjoyed the story, I liked trying to guess who was doing the haunting and where all the red herrings went to. I liked the setting of World War One and the back story to how some of the people arrived at the house and I enjoyed the 2 main characters.
Overall not a bad book for a lazy Sunday afternoon of reading