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Laddar... The Invited: A Novel (utgåvan 2020)av Jennifer McMahon (Författare)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I really enjoyed this. It had a fun twist on the usual haunted house structure and the characters were distinct and vibrant. I also appreciate how well McMahon is able to capture Vermont -- both in its natural beauty and the people who inhabit the small state. It's a difficult task. I hope to read more of McMahon's work this year; this is only the second book of hers that I've read. I'm very impressed. Helen and Nate leave their teaching jobs in Connecticut in search of a more rural lifestyle, which they find in small town Vermont where they decide to build their dream home. The land in question is the site of a long-ago hanging of a woman accused of being a witch after she predicted a school would burn, which it did with children dying inside the building. Her name was Hattie, and she figures prominently in their lives, so do the females in Hattie's subsequent generations. Although I am wary of books with "ghosts" and/or "supernatural" in the description, I read this book at the suggestion of a friend. It is well written with twist and turns that should appeal to fans of this genre.
A city couple trades their fast-paced lifestyle for rural Vermont, running headlong into a few ghosts along the way. ... Too much wide-eyed sentimentality; not enough creepy malevolence. ...powerful supernatural thriller from bestseller McMahon .... Whether one believes in ghosts, McMahon’s consummately crafted chiller is guaranteed to haunt. PriserUppmärksammade listor
Fantasy.
Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house??they build one . . . In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on forty-four acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams. When they discover that this beautiful property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the local legend of Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago. With her passion for artifacts, Helen finds special materials to incorporate into the house??a beam from an old schoolroom, bricks from a mill, a mantel from a farmhouse??objects that draw her deeper into the story of Hattie and her descendants, three generations of Breckenridge women, each of whom died suspiciously. As the building project progresses, the house will become a place of menace and unfinished business: a new home, now haunted, that beckons its owners and their neighbors toward unimaginabl Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Decent story, but it just seemed really slow. ( )