Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.
Sto caricando le informazioni... Grip of It (originale 2017; edizione 2017)di Jac Jemc (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaThe Grip of It di Jac Jemc (2017)
Top Five Books of 2017 (547) Books Read in 2018 (1,161) » 13 altro Books Read in 2017 (2,798) Best Horror Books (210) Best Horror Mega-List (106) Nightmares Not Included (121) Female Horror Author (28) mstrust's scary list (18) Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. More like a 3.5 but not a 4. Definitely one of those "haunted house" stories where you can make fun of the characters for not, you know, leaving. Jac Jemc uses quite a bit of stream-of-consciousness when narrating from the point of view of one character in particular, a style of which I'm not very fond. However, even though this book was just "okay" for me, I do want to read more of her work because overall it was real written and produces some intense imagery. ( ) Reason read: haunted house challenge I received this book in an Indiespensible box May 2017 and it was time to read it. It is the story of a husband and wife who buy a house which is haunted. The house nearly ruins their marriage and their health. It is told in back and forth very short chapters by her and then him. The couple move from a city to a more rural location that is near a forest and a body of water. The house is large with a lot of secret rooms and strange noise. The forest is filled with children and/or birds. The water seems predatory. There's a cave. A lot of creepy things but none of it ever makes a unified connection at least to me. ***Contains Spoilers*** I couldn't put this book down! Filled with the slow, creeping dread type of horror. You're never quite sure if the main characters are slowly going insane or if there really is something wrong with their house. You get just enough clues that you could make a compelling argument either way. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Premi e riconoscimentiElenchi di rilievo
"A chilling literary horror novel about a young couple haunted by their newly purchased home Jac Jemc's The Grip of It tells the eerie story of a young couple haunted by their new home. Julie and James settle into a house in a small town outside the city where they met. The move--prompted by James's penchant for gambling, his inability to keep his impulses in check--is quick and seamless; both Julie and James are happy to leave behind their usual haunts and start afresh. But this house, which sits between lake and forest, has plans for the unsuspecting couple. As Julie and James try to settle into their home and their relationship, the house and its surrounding terrain become the locus of increasingly strange happenings. The architecture--claustrophobic, riddled with hidden rooms within room--becomes unrecognizable, decaying before their eyes. Stains are animated on the wall--contracting, expanding--and map themselves onto Julie's body in the form of bruises; mold spores taint the water that James pours from the sink. Together the couple embark on a panicked search for the source of their mutual torment, a journey that mires them in the history of their peculiar neighbors and the mysterious residents who lived in the house before Julie and James. Written in creepy, potent prose, The Grip of It is an enthralling, psychologically intense novel that deals in questions of home: how we make it and how it in turn makes us, inhabiting the bodies and the relationships we cherish."--
"A chilling literary horror novel about a young couple who purchase and live in a haunted house"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Discussioni correntiNessunoCopertine popolari
Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |