Audiobook on Audible
Purchased during $5 sale
Better Homes and Hauntings by Molly Harper
Narrated by Amanda Ronconi
Let me start by saying the title caught my eye. I automatically thought of Better Homes and Gardens. I love the play on words for this book. Second, I love a good paranormal book so it being about a haunting made it even more desirable in my view.
I was not sure what to expect, except a haunting, when I began reading (or listening) to this book. It actually went a little historical romance on me which was fine. I enjoyed the plot of the old family mansion. The idea of secret passageways, forbidden love, and a murder mystery all wrapped into one.
For anyone who has every seen Stephen King's Rose Red, you will feel the connection. The author was able to build up the haunted house scenes and secret rooms nicely. Don't get me wrong, it is no where near as scary as Rose Red but certainly a different take on it. At least that is what it reminded me of. For a clean quick read this is a nice book and was very enjoyable.
Now the narrator did do good but no fabulous. Her voice is pleasant and isn't raspy or airy. Lord knows I cannot stand a narrator that you can hear suck in a breath every two seconds while reading. My only conflict was with the other characters voices. I think this would have been even better had they used a female and male narrator for the characters. At times, I found it difficult to know who was speaking as the voices were not clearly different.
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