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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Loveliest Deaddi Ray Garton
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. While I wouldn't really classify The Loveliest Dead as a light version of Ray Garton's writing, comparatively it would qualify as less hardcore than some of his other books like Live Girls and Night Life. And I'm referring to the material here, not his writing or style. The writing and character development is definitely Garton: strong, very good and enjoyable. While trying to deal with the loss of their son, the Keller family moves to a new home. An old dilapidated house that has seen better days but that provides the Kellers with hope of rebuilding and starting new. However, they soon start seeing and experiencing things that haunt their lives even more. To that degree, the story is a haunted house novel but the grief, dread and suffering felt by the Keller family is very real. That is what pulls the novel into being something memorable. That and being scary throughout. Overall, I will have to admit to liking some of his other books better than this one but there's nothing wrong with The Loveliest Dead. It is a solidly entertaining novel and one I would recommend. I would simply recommend other Garton books before this one. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In this "shocker from [a] horror maestro," a grieving family's inheritance stirs the past and brings out the dead (Publishers Weekly). After the sudden death of their youngest child, Josh, Jenna and David Kellar need a fresh and healing new start. When Jenna is bequeathed her estranged father's home in the coastal town of Eureka, California, it's the opportunity the Kellars, their son Miles, and Jenna's elderly mother have been looking for. And the last thing they expected. The house has been waiting for them, and so have those who still walk there in the dark. There are the children seen playing in the backyard--at once innocent and terrifying; the noises and music that rattle the walls; the man who appears in Miles's bedroom at night, watching over him with an unhealthy obsession. But when Jenna sees Josh, she fears that she's either losing her mind or someone is playing a very sick game. For a local psychic, it's neither--it's a warning. For the Kellars, the past isn't dead. In fact, it's just starting to come alive. A Bram Stoker Award finalist for Live Girls, "Garton shows a sure hand in . . . mixing The Amityville Horror, Poltergeist and Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door" (Bookgasm). A winner of the World Horror Convention's Grand Master Award, Garton is in the company of such recipients as Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, and Richard Matheson. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The Loveliest Dead did well in keeping my interest and moved along at a fast pace, but I didn’t feel very attached to the characters. I completely disliked David, he seemed to be a controlling jackass. I had little respect for Jenna for being as intimidated and cowed by David, while knowing that her son was in danger. She eventually got some backbone, but she let things go way too far, in my opinion, before she stood up for herself. I did like Miles and, I liked, but also felt sorry for Jenna’s mother since her fears were discarded so easily. The poor woman thought she was going crazy and her daughter just left her believing that for a long time even though she had begun seeing things as well. I was also disappointed that the book didn’t scare me.
The Loveliest Dead had a lot of the things involved in a horror story that usually scare me, like possession, evil entities, Ouija boards, etc. But I think I was so sidetracked on my dislike of David and disappointment with Jenna that the scary stuff just didn’t get to me. I spent most of the novel just hating David. Maybe it’s because he reminded me of my ex-husband, and someone else wouldn’t feel so strongly about him, I don’t know, but I just wanted somebody to tell him where he could go.
I wanted to like this book, but it felt kind of like a sorry repeat of The Shining by Stephen King (which I recommend highly: the book, not the movie). **spoiler alert** The other thing that really bothered me, was that the family moves in with Jenna’s friend, after the shit has hit the fan and all is well, but they couldn’t move in with her when everything was so bad? I don’t get that. I especially don’t understand why Jenna wouldn’t at least as her friend to take care of Miles after getting the first warning from the medium and then the second warning from the psychic. I guess it wouldn’t be much of a horror story though if people acted rationally. Maybe I’ve read too many of these books and I’m just jaded. I didn’t hate it, it kept my interest, but I can’t really say it was worth the read either. There are better horror books out there. ( )