The Haunted

I enjoyed it like all of his other ones I've read

Got this book rather inexpensive. I simply cannot believe the amateurish writing, the stilted dialogue, the boring scenes that could be thrown away with zero impact on the “story.” I don’t know where to begin with how awfully stupid this book is. Ooh... everyone’s scared of the basement. Oh no, something appeared then disappeared, so scawey!!! This book is a complete waste of time. No, really, I usually force myself to finish a book that I’ve purchased, but I just can’t even with this one. You know how everyone thinks they have a novel in them? So did this author and unfortunately someone encouraged him to try to write one. He must have had a terrible writer’s group. Oh, and, there’s a brief, graphic sex scene, so that makes the book edgy and cool! What a daring author! He’s really expressing himself through his work! Give me a break...

I think the set up was great. Author really did a good job setting the mood and creating a creepy atmosphere. But I found so much of the graphic sex scenes and especially the sexual assault towards the female characters one of them being a little girl so unnecessary. It didn’t even explain in the end why the haunting was sexually motivated. He just added it in their for shock value. The daughter character seemed to only be there to be a victim of the ghosts sexual assault and never contributed to the story. Very lazy tropes for a horror novel. For that I’m giving this book two stars.