Ambrose Ibsen

The plot gravitates between science fiction and horror. It contains a satisfying mystery that makes you want to find out how its elements all fit together. The setting is college life and after a while, which some may find a bit long, as things become interesting when it becomes obvious that a perceived comet flyby that happened at the time of a miraculous resuscitation of a fellow student of our protagonist Julian, a student of music, was not merely a coincidence. Not to spoil anything, this is not speculative fiction about life after death. There are certain actions of The main characters that I find rather inscrutable but it It does not get to the point where one has to suspend disbelief. Read for yourself. I find it well worth the read.… (mais)

Well as much as I hate to do it I am making this a dreaded "dnf". I have given more than enough time on trying to get through it and to me it is just a waste of time.

I will give a small backstory:

Kevin Taylor is a house flipper and he buys houses proceeding to renovate them then flips them for a profit, but he records everything he does through the internet while he is renovating and has been making a good profit from subscribers. Kevin buys a house on Morgan Road in a Detroit suburb that has seen better days and the house has been empty for near 30 years. Kevin is starting to see things ever since he started working on gutting the house.

Thoughts:

The storyline has just been dragging on with literally nothing happening with the haunting and then it started a tiny bit but it is just too much of a slow burn and when I mean slow I am talking "turtle slow" as the whole story so far is Kevin doing the recording of what he is doing. But there is just too much detail for every single thing that he does which is almost like watching one of those subscribed channels.

The problem with the haunting is there isn't much of one and maybe it gets better for the rest of the book, I don't know, but it is so boring to me that I have fallen asleep a couple of times and that hardly ever happens when I am reading books that have hauntings.

I have read other books by this author which have been very good, but I suppose his books are hit and miss as I read another book a few years back that I struggled with as well. Also this book is in a trilogy, but I doubt I will finish it out if it is as slow as this one seems to be. Since this book is a dnf I won't be rating it. Some people really liked this book, but it just wasn't for me.
… (mais)