Review: Scary good for a rainy day.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 6, 2014
I’ve seen the movies. I’ve read the books. But, I just can’t say it enough. Don’t go in the basement! There’s always something bad just waiting to make you dead.So the story goes, Heather takes a dare and enters the Blackwell House. Everyone knows it’s haunted, and really bad things happened. But, like the foolish girl she is, I guess she figures it can’t happen to her. She’ll show her friends there’s nothing to be afraid of and that’ll be the end of it.Not quite. Heather doesn’t run into the Blackwell family ghosts. Instead, she’s confronted by her dead mother.What the author did really well was hook me in right from the beginning. This isn’t a new scenario. I’ve read many similar stories, but the author made it different. The ghost Heather thought she should be worried about isn’t the one that appeared.The atmosphere is set, from the door slamming shut after she enters, to the creaking and moaning of the old house settling.Another thing that I liked was how the author let me into Heather’s head as she tried to dispel her own fears and find logical explanations for what was occurring. It enabled me to feel her fear, her disbelief, and finally her terror.Kudos to Chad for his surprising ending. After I read the last sentence I said to myself, “Got ya!”