written by Christopher Golden
published by Bantam
ISBN-10: 055338208X
ISBN-13: 978-0553382082
reviewed by Adam Armstrong
07.12.2008
Nothing like a good old-fashion ghost story, without the
old-fashion part.
Michael and
Jillian Dansky have a wonderful life. They love each
other deeply, have great careers that they enjoy, and have a house that they
really want even if they can’t afford it entirely. After a masquerade party, where Jillian drank
way too much and Michael had more than he should, Michael falls asleep at the
wheel. He wakes in time to avert the car
from smashing into a tree but almost runs down a little girl in the process. Finding it odd that an eight-year-old girl is
out alone in the middle of the night and wandering around the streets, Michael
offers to take her home. Only her home
is a haunted house. Michael lets loose
an ancient horror that takes his loving wife from him and leaves him with an
empty shell of a woman who is nothing but angry and bitter and he must find the
pieces of the puzzle before his wife becomes something much worse than a
psychopath.
Overall this
wasn’t a bad novel. A novel should be a
story based off of many mysteries and this book accomplishes that. The characterization was handled really well,
but the novel falls short with some of the explanations. There was a bit of repetitiveness and a few
different ways that Golden could have gone with this story that I think would
have worked a little better, but overall worth a look.
4 out of 5