I'll be upfront from the beginning: I dont know why I requested this book, and unfortunately at time of writing (late June 2015) I haven't finished it - I've managed about 35% of the way through. I have read other reviews that say "it's a slow start but glad I stuck with it" so I might give it a second chance....but not right now.

Barlow is a small town in Arizona, with lots of different personalities, from uptight upstanding police men, through widowed authors returning home, to dropped out hippies on the edge of society. Dead bodies are stacking up around the place, and not all of the deaths are explainable - apart from the ones done by Chris the librarian who has an overwhelming need for things to be neat and tidy and will do anything to make sure that happens.

That's as far as I get unfortunately....I see potential, lots of different voices are coming through, I just have other books that are calling me louder, and it hasn't gripped me enough to make me drop them in favour of this book.

I'll be upfront from the beginning: I dont know why I requested this book, and unfortunately at time of writing (late June 2015) I haven't finished it - I've managed about 35% of the way through. I have read other reviews that say "it's a slow start but glad I stuck with it" so I might give it a second chance....but not right now.

Barlow is a small town in Arizona, with lots of different personalities, from uptight upstanding police men, through widowed authors returning home, to dropped out hippies on the edge of society. Dead bodies are stacking up around the place, and not all of the deaths are explainable - apart from the ones done by Chris the librarian who has an overwhelming need for things to be neat and tidy and will do anything to make sure that happens.

That's as far as I get unfortunately....I see potential, lots of different voices are coming through, I just have other books that are calling me louder, and it hasn't gripped me enough to make me drop them in favour of this book.

I absolutely loved this book. I am a big horror genre fan, and this book provided me with all the gore and supernatural elements to keep me excited to get to the next page/chapter.

I really enjoyed the author's twist on the theme of hoarding, and the emphasis on how life experiences can shape the attitudes and attachments that one can have toward material items. Also, it describes the possibility that goods may still possess the essence of their previous owner's personality and also the amount of sentimental value that was given to the belongings.

I would recommend this book to all readers that enjoy the horror/supernatural genre. I stayed up late many nights in order to finish this great book. ( )

From the synopsis: "This is a story of ghosts and demons …of possessions and the possessed …of psychics and skeptics …of death and redemption …of love lost and found."

Yes the story delivered all of the above.......and yes that "but" is coming............

I am fascinated with the supernatural and expected to be spooked out, gnawing my fingernails, and afraid to turn off the lights. Yep that's me >> I love to have the bejeebers scared out of me! However, it was just too slow moving and too long to have much affect on my bejeebers. Darn :(

Please note: I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. ( )

A bizarre coupling of Stephen King and an episode of Hoarders, this book had an interesting premise (things can contain the essence of the dead, to put it simpistically) but fell flat on execution. Slow to get rolling, too many characters that weren't really interesting, and a forced sense of creepiness like a second-rate haunted house with cardboard cutouts of ghouls. ( )