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The ending seemed a little bit rushed and I wished the authors would've given us a few more chapters with the characters. Despite the fact that this book does focus heavily on romance, it is one of the best YA horror novels I've read. Real life relationships don’t work like that, and I think that’s why I felt no real chemistry between the couple.

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While the storyline is completely resolved in a satisfactory manner by the end (this is a standalone), I still felt it was a little rushed and might have preferred a little more time spent with the characters at the end. And when things finally become clear, after blood is shed, a plan is put into place, but would it be too late? When he looked up at Delilah as he passed, the same eyes she remembered from all those years ago -- dark and stormy and shadowed with black circles -- seemed to flicker to life for a moment. As part of her process, Jackson sketched floor plans of the downstairs and upstairs of Hill House and a rendering of the exterior. The writing in the first half of the story is so juicy, so robust, and so masterfully persuasive that I started to get discouraged by where the story was heading in the second half.I do have to say, I connected a bit more with Jack, but Syd was just hard enough to love that her backstory made sense. I was trying to force myself to finish it for the sake of reading all of their books but I just had to give up. I had heard some good things about this book so before I started it, I already had a reasonably high expectation of it.

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I was anticipating that the story would focus more on the house and that there would perhaps be a supernatural/horror element, but instead it took a slightly different turn and focused primarily on the two main characters and how events in their past and present impacted. I was expecting romance, I was expecting sparks, I was excited to read a new book (for me) that I knew would be totally captivating.When Londoners Jack and Syd move into their new house it seems like they have found their dream house, it has lots of space and situated in a perfect location and the friendly owner wanted the young couple to have it.

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It plays on your mind just like the author has others play on the minds of the characters and story line. They are still teenagers with raging hormones, but the sex talk is not as naive as in most YA books. like just because you know your boyfriend takes a shit every morning, doesn’t mean you want to see him on the toilet. This book is so alive that you have to convince yourself it is just a book, it is just a book, it is just a book if you want to ever feel comfortable inside your house again. I also thought that the way the paranormal element of the story unfolded and was revealed was very cleverly done.In a New York Times review in 1959, Edmund Fuller wrote, "With her 'conceit' of Hill House, whether pretty be the name for it or not, Shirley Jackson proves again that she is the finest master currently practicing in the genre of the cryptic, haunted tale. I find psychological thrillers a hit or miss affair, this is a hit in every sense, I can see this being a bestseller, and deservedly so. I'll admit that while I'm not well versed in suspense as a genre (yet- although I'd love to get more well acquainted in the future! The story is about a boy named Gavin and a girl named Delilah who have known each other almost all of their lives.

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