A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena (Book Review) #Spookathon #Readathon

Today, I'm reviewing: A Stranger in the House which was the read along book for #Spookathon.

This book is extremely poorly written with a lot of very annoying things.

First, the POVs are all over the place. You keep on jumping from one character to the next without real definition or break except a paragraph break and the paragraph can be very unrelated even in the same chapter.

Then you have the obvious lack of research and realism about the car accident's consequences on the main character's body which basically is a turning point in the story.

A lot of the characters body motion or action aren't realistic either and the prose tend to be repetitive especially with Tom.

And the list could go on...

So I had a lot of problem with reading this book since for the first 10 chapters all I could see was everything that was "wrong" in it. Then after that the plot start showing a bit better. So many my attention to the annoying detail faded or maybe the writing got better, I'm not sure. For a thriller, it was kind of predictable. But I guess the story is ok and there are some plot twists.

Then there is Tom. I think that I have never seen such a crappy character taking that much of attention. It was said that he was supposed to be on his wife side when all hell breaks lose and people think she is lying well, he wasn't. Tom is probably the worse husband a woman can get, like really and he is self absorbed, his worry about his wife going to jail is what that's going to do to him, after all he cheat on her on her first night there, then again. And she still manage to forgive him, like what the fuck, you're not even married to the idiot get your money girl and run, leave him to Brigit, seriously they deserve each other. 

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The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Book Review) #Spookathon #Readathon (with video)

The Girl on the Train is the last book that I read in full for #Spookathon. 

I had already watched the movie so I definitely had to read the book. There are a bit of differences but the movie actually follow the plot really well. 

This book has three different POV in the first person in different chapters. So you always know who you are with. You follow three women on two different time line. 

Rachel, the girl on the train, is an alchoolic, depressive, divorcé who is obsessed with her ex-husband and like to look at a house while on the train because she imagine the life of the people living in it. 

Megan, is also depressed because she has a secret too heavy to carry. She is the type of hyperactive depressed person, sort of ation junky who would do anything not to think about the ghosts in her past. Basically, Megan and Rachel are exact opposite. One long for the past, the other can't avoid it enough. 

Then there is very boring Anna who is like a version of who Rachel used to be and would have been if her life had turned out as expected. 

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Book Review: Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (with video) #Spookathon

I finished to read Doctor Sleep last night. I thought I would be scared but there was nothing scary about this book. It was good just not as mind blowing as expected.
Still, I have a few issues.First with who Dan actually is and if it's not a bit out of character for him to be an alcoholic in the first place.
Then I found myself having empathy for the bad guys and sort of not completely understanding why the "good" characters didn't have much. I mean I can't understand why at least one of the characters couldn't show of some empathy for the bad guys.
Then I have a bit of problem with the mass murder, probably as a result of having empathy for the bad guys.
I also have problems with Momo's death, I mean I went to analyse, Danny taking the cancer from her as being the same as how John Coffey takes the illness from other people in The Green Mile and use it later. There is the same sort of process, Dan, just like John is sick while transporting the cancer but Momo dies while the woman in The Green Mile survives which I feel is a bit unfair.
Then there is the problem of the true knot. In a way it feels like the book want to make us believe that they were created in the  boiler's explosion which would be why they need "steam" but in an other way some of the member are really old, like century old so they would have to have existed before the incident in The Shinning. Or maybe it's just the place where the hotel used to stand that is attracting people. I'm not sure but I feel like the origin of the True Knot wasn't really explain and in the same way, they apparently used to be 200 and then now they are 41 but we are also told that the death are super rare for them so, where did the 160 others disappeared. I mean is there a third book fighting them coming up in 30 years?
Are the one who left Rose the Hat really all going to die of the measles?
So many questions partially answered only. And it feels to me a bit inconsistent. 

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Spookathon 2017 (Participation Announcement!) #spookathon

Here is my video to announce my participation to #spookathon 2017.
So here are some of the "rules" and link that I got from BooksandLala Spookathon video.

Spookathon links 2017

playlist, twitter

The organisers:

BooksandLala,  Shannon and Paige

Spookathon dates

October 16 - 22, 2017

Spookathon challenges

1. read a thriller

2. read a book with a spooky word in the title

3. read a book based on a childhood fear

4. read a book with orange on the cover

5. read a book that has a spooky setting

My list of Spookathon books for this year.

1) Nightmare realisation

2) Doctor Sleep

3) The girl in the train

Maybe

4) I am number four

5) A Stranger in the House 

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