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Average rating2.3
When the Conways move into their ancestral home in Louisiana after the death of an estranged aunt, it is with the promise of a new beginning. But the house has a life of its own. Abandoned for the last forty years, surrounded by thick trees and a stifling sense of melancholy, the sprawling Victorian house seems to swallow up the sunlight. Deep within the cold cellar and etched into the very walls is a long, dark history of the Conway name--a grim bloodline poisoned by suicide, strange disappearances, voodoo rituals, and rumors of murder. But the family knows nothing of the soul-shattering secrets that snake through generations of their past. They do not know that terror awaits them. For with each generation of the Conways comes a hellish day of reckoning. . . .
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This is a horror novel and as such it is full of the worst thing you could imagine. I suppose part of my ranking.
Most of it comes from the length. I was able to skip large portions without missing any of the plot. That is disappointing.
My biggest issue is the treatment of religion. If Catholicism is the solution, then shouldn't priests have some power? If someone else has more power, then that needs to be explained better. And I would have liked to have more of an explination of the past.
It is possible that I missed some of these things in my abbreviated reading.