Sick House
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Sick House
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Narrated by:
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Joe Hempel
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By:
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Jeff Strand
Summary
It's a home invasion from beyond the grave in this novel of unrelenting terror from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Pressure, Dweller, and Wolf Hunt.
It doesn't seem like the perfect house, but screw it, it's good enough to rent for a year. Unfortunately for Boyd, Adeline, and their two young daughters, it's immediately clear they chose the wrong place.
The nightmare begins with violent coughs and headaches. Food starts to rot almost as soon as they take it inside. A pet tarantula goes missing. Some family members begin to exhibit creepy behavior.
Then the ghosts arrive, and all hell breaks loose....
©2018 Jeff Strand (P)2018 Jeff StrandA twisted trio are hired to kill a woman, by persons unknown, it all starts going wrong for them from there ....
A man ( Boyd) gets a promotion and needs a new home in a differerent town, he picked the wrong house, the sick house.
Boyd's family suffer some nasty conseqences of moving into the wrong home and then just when they think it might all work out, everything takes a turn for the hellish. This book is mostly concerned with those hellish consequences, be warned, it's not nice but it IS fun.
I particularly liked the ending.
Narration was superb and I totally recommend this book to all lovers of horrible ghost stories, horror stories in general and weird twisted stories in particular.
I was lucky enough to recieve a free review copy in exchange for my honest and unbiased review, which is what you have here, I really did enjoy this book very much.
Best ghost story
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If you love horror/ghost stories this is definately well worth a listen. It had me hooked from start to finish
Will be looking for more books by this author and narrator
I was given this book in exchange for an honest review
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Not bad, not great
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Joe Hempel is an very neat and precise narrator but unfortunately he just doesn't seem to bring the characters to life.
I say this after listening to several Jeff Strand audiobooks.
Great story.
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This quick to read book is not so much a creepy ghost story as a gore fest with all the stops pulled out. Three men, themselves brutal killers, murdered by an angry witch before the arrival of the Gardiners at the house, are determined to take back their lives. There are some enjoyable incidents, such as the visit from the policeman, but there was just too much slog it out and beat them down violence with litt!e else to move the story onward for the length of book. Reduced by half, it could have been good fun. Sadly, I found myself distracted and not bothering to listen, just tuning in occasionally, after about the halfway mark. Even the excellent narration by Joe Hempel, with his impressive story telling skills and individual character voicings, was insufficient to maintain my interest.
With a little more quirkiness in the characters, and far less prolonged violence, this book would have been slightly reminiscent of the fabulous Beetlejuice. But as it is, the plot is schizophrenic, unsure whether to be comedy or horror violence and, after the promising beginning, really succeeding in being, mostly, only boring.
Many people would love to be a severed head.
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