Review: Another great Matt Shaw story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 28, 2014
This story starts out like a typical ghost/paranormal story. A married couple and their two girls move into house that has a dark past. Soon after arriving, strange things start occurring. Of course, a child is always the first to see something weird, point it out, and then, have the adults be in denial. The wheel hasn't been reinvented here. This novella is short. An avid reader could finish it in a day or even one sitting but that's not a problem for A House in the Country. Matt Shaw is a master when it comes to giving his readers a great story without 300 extra pages of fluff.The characters were really fleshed out and believable. You could really feel the tension between the spouses, parent and child, and siblings when these strange things started happening.As I said earlier, this story seems like it's been done before but if it ain't broke, don't fix it. It was really well written and fast paced. Chapters were usually divided by day and night over a period of a week. It was a refreshing way of outlining the story and there was a sense of counting down to something major  It would be unlike Matt Shaw to not give his readers something different. I knew something big had to be coming. He always gives us a huge twist in his stories. When I reached the end, it was as if Matt punched me in jaw. It was shocking and disturbing. It was a great book with a perfect ending.