Helpful Score: 2
What I was expecting from the book and what I got from it were two different things. Most of the book is not a ripping tale of a group of strangers staying in a haunted house. Instead, the majority of the book tells the story, brief sketches, really, of several of the main characters' pasts. Only in the last handful of chapters does their stay in the 'haunted house' actually occur. The book was still entertaining, because several of the characters were very likable, and I couldn't help rooting for them. More of a character study than a book about a hounted house.
