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Eyes On You: A Ghost Story by Steven Jenkins
2.0

Unfortunately, this book did not live up to its cover. I loves me a traditional haunted house story and I may have written one or two myself :) However, in my opinion, this book suffers from mediocre writing and storyline.

It's written from a first person perspective and the protagonist simply tells us what is going on and repeats the dialogue. All the time! Personally, I would have like the good old fashioned showing, not telling technique, some description or actually any description. One of the first weird happenings is a jar of beetroot mysteriously being thrown from a Fridge. Come now its beetroot, the colour of blood, with broken glass on the lovely white tiled floor. The protagonist had come across this scene without knowing what has happened? I would have loved if the author had used these elements to create what could have been an opening blood chilling scene.

Anyway, my opinion does not concur with most reviews of this. So please don't take me at my word. If you go onto Amazon and use the look inside feature you can read the opening pages and see if this style of writing is for you. Unfortunately, it wasn't for me.