Review: Catching Flies With Vinegar
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 6, 2014
I liked the basic idea of this story. A mysterious house that comes with not only furniture but also a ghost is certainly a great base on which to build.Unfortunately Addison, the main character, is a very unpleasant person who has nothing good to say about nearly everyone she meets. The old lady neighbor is pushy and nosy. The receptionist at the local paper is rude, unhelpful and apparently a slut. The man at the public library is fatty (made of goo) and a simpleton who is only interested in his collection of suspenders and bad television, the lady walking her dog, a woman with the police department and so on.When she is interacting with others she is snappy, sarcastic, defensive, and in a few instances incredibly aggressive. She has no doubt that she is entitled to answers and if someone doesn't like being interrogated it's too darn bad.There are several instances where things don't make sense. At one point she screams at Luke to get out of her house. When he leaves, the last comment of the chapter is that apparently he didn't want to discuss the situation either. When she encounters the ghost for the first time her shrieks echo through the house, yet a moment later she is confidently speaking to it. She and the her contractor renovating the house are there for weeks but still haven't found a way into the mysteriously locked bedroom in the upstairs hallway.Would I try something else from this author? Actually, I probably would just to see if this is an aberration.