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Title: The Haunting of Ashburn HouseAuthor: Darcy Coates
Published: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 342
Rating: 3/5
Summary:
A woman moves into an infamous house on the outskirts of a little town, a house she has suddenly inherited from a family member she didn't know existed, but soon finds that there's definitely something off about the place and that somewhere, somehow, someone is watching her.
Review:
This was quite a fun and spooky book, but it did take a while to really get going for me.
I think the premise of this book is really interesting, and I was very intrigued when I started this; we've got a main character who is sort of at the end of her wits and her only option is to move into this house with her cat (which I loved by the way), and as she's there, she finds out more about her family's past and everything that's happened in the house, all the while getting the sense that there's something wrong with the house.
All of that is really interesting, but I felt like after the initial intriguing part, there was a lot in the middle here where I didn't feel as interested for some reason. It might have something to do with the characters, like they were fine, but probably not great and definitely not particularly memorable to me. I also think because we spend basically the entire book with just one character and she's not all that interesting, it gets a little bit boring.
It just felt very slow to me for a long time, but I kept going, and towards the end, things definitely picked up and got very exciting. I didn't know where the story was going, so I was surprised and intrigued and really enjoyed reading the last part.
So it ended up being a bit of a mixed bag for me, but I did like the spooky parts, I liked the setting and the house and I was very sucked in towards the end (even if it took me forever to get there).
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