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Sto caricando le informazioni... House of Ash and Bone (edizione 2023)di Joel A. Sutherland (Autore)
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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To say this book was a real surprise is quite the understatement. I genuinely was not expecting it to be as spooky and dark as it was! House of Ash and Bone starts with Josephine Jagger in a van with her four sisters and her parents, travelling for a week's vacation between Christmas and New Year's at an old house in Vermont that has been left to them by their heretofore unknown great-great aunt Mercy. The spookiness starts right away, with the stately old home having not only enough bedrooms for each girl to have her own but each room has a closet containing something they are deeply interested in - musical instruments, paints and accessories, jewellery and vintage clothes, and for Josephine a library of her favourite books. Josie starts to notice that she and her family are forgetting things almost as soon as they happen and she soon sees a terrifying eyeless woman. I really enjoyed how Sutherland worked in the real history of witch trials and a real 4 year old child accused of witchcraft. The horror is actually much more sophisticated than I expected, to Sutherland's credit, while still retaining the mindset of a 17 year old girl not only unsure of what is happening but of all aspects of herself. As well as hitting some classics of the ghost/haunted house genre, there's some aspects of The Dionaea House, a truly creepy viral online horror story about a house that is more than it seems and that devours its inhabitants, in the book that I absolutely love. The way the family kept forgetting everything that happened was very well done, adding a level of tension. PS: I really liked that there were small parts of Josie questioning her sexuality. Just enough to make Josie feel more real. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Fantasy.
Horror.
Young Adult Fiction.
HTML:The Haunted meets House of Salt and Sorrows in this young adult debut horror by acclaimed Canadian master of the macabre Joel A. Sutherland. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Jagger is a talented writer with special abilities she doesn't fully understand. Over the years she has developed methods to cope with the voices she hears in her head, but the old house her family has inherited in Vermont makes Josephine question what's real and what's not more than anything she's ever encountered before. It's filled with shadows, and whispers, and the unshakable feeling of being watched. Josephine then catches her first glimpse of a shadowy woman with long hair, pale skin, an impossibly wide smile and hollow pits for eyes. Her name is Dorcas, the ghost of a witch who died three hundred years ago. She has summoned the family to Vermont to ensnare them â?? then consume them â?? in order to rise from the grave and live again Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Josephine and her family are going to stay for a few days at a house they inherited from a great-aunt that none of them knew. The house is gigantic and isolated and just happens to be filled with all the things the people in the family love the best, books, musical instruments, art supplies, etc. (Just an aside here but the Mom seems to only love her family and have nothing for herself).
However, Josephine has a psychic gift that the others don't know about and is able to see the evil presence in the house. Can she save her family before it is too late?
The pacing was really slow with this novel until the last 50 or so pages. The majority of the sisters felt superfluous. Some of the plot points really didn't make sense. Overall pretty uneven.