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Bezeten Van Haar (2011)

by Christopher Ransom(Favorite Author)

3.14 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Vbk Media

review 1: The title of this book captured my eyes as soon as I saw it in the shop . The storyline is intriguing and the first half of the book forces you to keep turning the pages . Towards the end of the book , I needed to focus my full attention as it was quite confusing and made the book a little less appealing . Overall I did enjoy the book , but disliked the complexity of the storyline . I would like to read the author's other book as I believe there is potential for a good piece of writing .
review 2: I feel I should start by saying that this is the third book by Christopher Ransom that I have read. His first The Birthing House was detested by everyone I knew who had read it but it intrigued me though it was strange and surreal. It was far from the best book I'd ... moreread but it had held my attention, if only because I was determined to work out what had happened. I read The People Next Door next, again, the premise was good and it made a lot more sense but again it did get slightly surreal towards the end. So, I was in no particular rush to read another but I swapped The People Next Door for this one and as it was Hallowe'en I thought it would be an appropriate choice.And so.We meet James Hastings, a double for prominent rap artist Ghost. James used to be happily married to Stacey but a year ago she was killed and since then James hasn't worked, hasn't socialised, hasn't done anything except mourn his wife. Almost a year later a woman moves into the house next door and gradually moves into James' affections also but something is not right. James hears and sees things in his house and Annette, his new lover, begins to take on Stacey's mannerisms and looks but she also promises escape from his heartache. Escaping to Annette's abandoned home when it all gets too much for James seems like a good idea until it becomes apparent that Annette has ulterior motives. Motives that involve her dead son, a fan of rapper Ghost. Annette wants revenge and has tracked down Ghost to exact it - or is it James? Is James Ghost and if so where and who is the real James Hastings?This books does start off well, James' love and grief for his dead wife are palpable, he is obviously distraught and full of regret. There is a sinister feel to the story when James hears and sees things, definitely enough to send a chill up the readers spine and keep the intrigue. It is only when we get to Annette's former home that things once again start to become a little confused and surreal. This could be intentional as it reflects James' own confusion but after a relatively straightforward story it does seem to lose control and for a while left me not knowing if what I had read was a lie or not. It does straighten out again and everything makes sense but that confusion lost points for me, there wasn't really the need to make as big a thing out of it as is made - as a mystery it didn't really work.It does seem like Mr Ransom starts off with a good idea and everything goes along well enough and then he gets to a point where something big and unexpected has to happen - except it really doesn't need that - and it spoils the story.So for me this book falls between 2 and 3 stars, between ok and liked it because that confusion does let it down but apart from that it wasn't that bad a read. less

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