This was such a disappointment.
It is THE poor re-telling of the same story. Reading the summary, I thought "oh, like Amityville Horror", and reading the first page, I thought "The Haunting of Hill House" (a very poor knock-off of Haunting of Hill House). But I bought the book. No returns. So I kept reading. Somewhere past the half way mark, I really couldn't understand all the rave reviews of this book. Did these readers not ever read a haunted house book before? See the movies? IT wasn't spooky or thrilling or suspenseful - it stayed so on-script that I knew what would happen all along the way. I looked at some of the reviews, and saw some with 2 star ratings - one commented that it was like fan-fic for the Netflix version of Haunting of Hill House. THAT is what was bugging me. THAT is what this is. I turned on the series to re-watch the first episode and it all clicked.
As for the book-within-a-book thing - Yeah, nice touch, I suppose. But I've read better.
It is THE poor re-telling of the same story. Reading the summary, I thought "oh, like Amityville Horror", and reading the first page, I thought "The Haunting of Hill House" (a very poor knock-off of Haunting of Hill House). But I bought the book. No returns. So I kept reading. Somewhere past the half way mark, I really couldn't understand all the rave reviews of this book. Did these readers not ever read a haunted house book before? See the movies? IT wasn't spooky or thrilling or suspenseful - it stayed so on-script that I knew what would happen all along the way. I looked at some of the reviews, and saw some with 2 star ratings - one commented that it was like fan-fic for the Netflix version of Haunting of Hill House. THAT is what was bugging me. THAT is what this is. I turned on the series to re-watch the first episode and it all clicked.
As for the book-within-a-book thing - Yeah, nice touch, I suppose. But I've read better.
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