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The Bell Witch by John F.D. Taff

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1.0

Pure stubbornness got me to the end of this long-ass book. The original story is creepy, and the beginning showed promise, but as the book went on all I could think was "this would be improved by adding a laugh track" because literally the witch drops bananas on people and tells them how nice they look in their new dresses. It's like what would happen if someone took a pretty good, creepy movie like "Mama" and turned it into a primetime sitcom where 'Mama' doesn't have a body and is voiced by Samantha Bee. Everything is ruined.

There was nothing horror about this book after the first, like, 10 pages. There was nothing good about this book. Ouch. I hate saying that. But the plot was all over the place, the characters were jarringly inconsistent, the dialogue was clunky and unbelievable, there were too many unnecessary characters and it was waaaaay too long. Bad. Just.... bad.
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