![]() ![]() There is also an interesting thread involving Mark’s burgeoning sexuality. The opening of the book, an excerpt from a newspaper, is only mentioned again in a brief aside at the very end, and I didn’t understand why it was considered crucial enough to be included. Mark, the 1980s character, has a strange connection to the house-even revealing he has had nightmares about the fountain upon first seeing it-but it is a coincidence that he ends up at the house it isn’t like his parents or family had some kind of previous connection to it. There were many threads that felt problematic or unresolved. ![]() Even though the narratives do eventually intermingle, each time the narrative switched to one or the other, I felt like I was reading an entirely unrelated story. One is set in the early 1860s following a young woman determined to be a teacher and the other takes place in the late 1980s following a boy whose family has just moved to a new town and a creepy old house. ![]() The book is set up with two alternating storylines-one of which is not even discussed in the cove copy-and I found them to be very disjointed. I am always on the lookout for good haunted house narrative, but this book was not for me. ![]()
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