Amity
Books | Juvenile Fiction / Horror
3.6
Micol Ostow
Here is a house of ruin and rage, of death and deliverance. Here is where I live, not living. Here is always mine. When Connor's family moves to Amity, a secluded house on the peaceful banks of New England's Concord River, his nights are plagued with gore-filled dreams of demons, destruction, and revenge. Dreams he kind of likes. Dreams he could make real, with Amity's help. Ten years later, Gwen's family moves to Amity for a fresh start. Instead, she's haunted by lurid visions, disturbing voices, and questions about her own sanity. But who would ever believe her? And what could be done if they did? Because Amity isn't just a house. She is a living force, bent on manipulating her inhabitants to her twisted will. She will use Connor and Gwen to bring about a violent end as she's done before. Inspired by a true-crime story, Amity spans generations to weave an overlapping, interconnected tale of terror, insanity, danger, and death.
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Author
Micol Ostow
Pages
362
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab ™
Published Date
2014-08-01
ISBN
1512401099 9781512401097
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"This book had the potential to be a great novel, but it was just so repetitive. I mean, they repeated the same thing over and over to make it terrifying, but really just made me laugh at how silly it was. <br/><br/>The characters were really developed. They made it so that it was hard to connect with them, but really, one's a sociopath and the other had a mental breakdown. How can you really connect with characters like that? If it wasn't so repetitive, it would've been great, but it just flopped. Even the ending flopped. <br/><br/>The book runs parallel with one character 10 years earlier than the other and it shows how they're stories are connected. It led up to this big horrifying ending and then BAM! It wasn't great at all."
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Kirsten Brontmire