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lauraborkpower 's review for:
The Good House
by Tananarive Due
I'm not exactly sure why I finished this. It was not good.
Due's core story is interesting, and the portions focused on Corey are hands-down the best (though I really, really could have done without reading about a fifteen-year-old's erection, and Due writes about it a lot. Like, a lot).
But the writing, especially the dialogue, is so corny, and there are too many sex scenes for me (read: there are sex scenes); and the entire romance with Miles was 100% unnecessary and it would have been much more interesting to focus only on the family drama and Angela's grief and strength to overcome the demons that took her child. But that's not what Due delivers. She delivers an overly complicated but somehow under explained horror-romance that is, confusingly, both an exciting and painfully boring read.
And I did not like Robin Miles's narration. I don't know why. She was too soft? Or superior? Or something, I don't know. But she didn't fit the story and I didn't like her.
Due's core story is interesting, and the portions focused on Corey are hands-down the best (though I really, really could have done without reading about a fifteen-year-old's erection, and Due writes about it a lot. Like, a lot).
But the writing, especially the dialogue, is so corny, and there are too many sex scenes for me (read: there are sex scenes); and the entire romance with Miles was 100% unnecessary and it would have been much more interesting to focus only on the family drama and Angela's grief and strength to overcome the demons that took her child. But that's not what Due delivers. She delivers an overly complicated but somehow under explained horror-romance that is, confusingly, both an exciting and painfully boring read.
And I did not like Robin Miles's narration. I don't know why. She was too soft? Or superior? Or something, I don't know. But she didn't fit the story and I didn't like her.