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rngilmer's review
1.0
I was so looking forward to this book because I love stories about hauntings and possessions, and really, I'm intrigued by the Amityville house. This could have been such a good book, and instead it was so bad it was difficult to even get through. If it hadn't been for the short page count, I probably wouldn't have finished it. The dialogue is silly and robotic—I don't believe anyone talks like that—the author spelled out every scene for me and then had the characters talk about it in almost the same exact words, so everything was repeated, and there was no tension at all. Things happen, the characters talk about them as if they're watching a movie and they aren't really happening, and every character asked at least five times "Well, what can we do about it?" and left it at that. And when a major character died, one of the other people living in the house says, "Well, being sad won't bring him back, so I wouldn't get so upset" or something. There was no development in any of the characters and everything about this story was wooden. Then it turns out it never even happened or some such nonsense and we have some sort of dream sequence that means it either never happened, or one of the characters solved the mystery so everything went back to the beginning. It was all just disappointing.
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