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When Conrad Harrison impulse-buys a big old house in Wisconsin, his wife Jo doesn't share his enthusiasm, reluctant at the idea of leaving their LA life - so Conrad is left to set up their new home as she ties up loose ends at work. But Conrad's new purchase is not all that it seems. Soon Conrad is hearing the ghostly wailing of a baby in the night, seeing blood on the floor and being haunted by a woman who looks exactly like Jo. With his wife away, Conrad becomes obsessed by the pregnant girl next door, Nadia, who claims to be a victim of the evil in the house. The crying leads him to a bricked-up body, and the mystery of the Birthing House unravels, pulling in Jo, Nadia and leading Conrad to a nightmarish conclusion...
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I gave it my best shot, but this book sucks so bad I can't continue. There is literally nothing happening and I made it halfway through.
Mediocre. A strong start (I may have given bonus points for the local setting...) that petered out into a rehashing of many popular horror tropes, none of which were particularly well thought out. This could have been an interesting addition to gender/sex theory criticism, but didn't really get beyond a whole lot of masturbation (literal and literary). Very derivative, and very pointless. I'm extremely disappointed.