
The House on Cold Hill
Cold Hill Ghost Stories Series, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Nicholas Boulton
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By:
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Peter James
Ollie and Caro Harcourt are moving house with their 12-year-old daughter Jade. Ollie is desperate to leave the city. Caro is less sure. Then they view Cold Hill House, a dilapidated rural mansion, and fall instantly in love. It's expensive, but with its space, seclusion, and huge grounds, it seems like a brilliant idea.
That is, until they arrive.
It soon becomes apparent that they are not alone. A spectral woman appears on screens and walks the corridors, vanishing before she can be challenged. Strange occurrences become ever more common. Then Caro starts seeing faces, always looking out of the same upstairs window.
The room behind it could hold the key to the disturbing secret behind the house's mysterious past. Except for the fact that the room doesn't seem to exist....
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The only downside is that the husband Ollie is stupid. Lol
Otherwise this was an amazing story.
Great story.
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Amazing and scary
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spooky and well done
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Unfortunately this was a bit of a pattern throughout the book. Discoveries, incidents, and paranormal events that held no real substance beyond being an occasionally creative twist on an already established trope.
The problem is that the creativity came with the implication of a reason. A reason for the time loops, a reason for the digital involvement, and the quite modern-feeling vitriolic language involved. a reason for the protagonist family being so significant fly more fortunate than the family introduced in the beginning, a reason for the mobility of the phantom in question, a reason for the ex vicar to be notably and specifically angry at the phantom, rather than afraid, a reason for the specifically referenced age of death targeted at a family patriarch’s imminent 40th birthday…
None of these were reasonably qualified with a purpose of a tangible role in the story other than to simply manufacture mystery. It felt very much like the “Lost” approach to writing - keep the mysteries coming, and worry about how you’re going to explain them later.
It can all of course be explained away by the mysteries of the unknown, particularly at the point of the climax, but… it’s simply lazy writing. I don’t blame he author for it, because you’ve got to make a living, but as a reader, it does make me a feel ever so slightly exploited.
Still, though, because I am a sucker for a modern haunted house tale, I did find myself enjoying it nonetheless, even if both the climax and the lead up felt quite overdone - I was okay with it,, because the characters still felt real enough to me, which is a testament to a good author.
Decently written; clumsily executed
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So Good!!!!!!!!!
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creepy!
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Excellent story
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I liked it
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Fantastic traditional haunted house
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Spine-tingling with a welcome creep factor
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