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A review by dknippling
The Secret of Crickley Hall by James Herbert
3.0
An English country house is haunted by restless spirits lost during flooding during WWII. In modern times, in moves a family trying to escape another tragedy. Then the two hauntings collide...
I had two issues here. One, it's not the book for me, but for the kind of folks who actually insist ghosts are real and there really is a mysterious purpose to all our lives. This is essentially the story of a believer who gets to modestly avoid telling a skeptic "I told you so," and, well, I'm a skeptic. If you're a believer of stuff (you know who you are!), this has got to be just about perfect as far as plot goes, because it's well done in that aspect.
But, issue number two, this was paced soooo sloooooowly that I can't recommend it. Six hundred pages for a 300-page plot. I skimmed.
Some nice ironies here, but overall I found it laboriously slow.
I had two issues here. One, it's not the book for me, but for the kind of folks who actually insist ghosts are real and there really is a mysterious purpose to all our lives. This is essentially the story of a believer who gets to modestly avoid telling a skeptic "I told you so," and, well, I'm a skeptic. If you're a believer of stuff (you know who you are!), this has got to be just about perfect as far as plot goes, because it's well done in that aspect.
But, issue number two, this was paced soooo sloooooowly that I can't recommend it. Six hundred pages for a 300-page plot. I skimmed.
Some nice ironies here, but overall I found it laboriously slow.