Story Description:
HarperCollins|September
9, 2013|Hardcover|ISBN:
978-0-06-077963-4
It begins with a
call one snowy February night. Lying in
her bed, young Sylvie Mason overhears her parents on the phone across the
hall. This is not the first late-night
call they have received, since her mother and father have an uncommon
occupation: helping “haunted souls” find peace.
And yet something in Sylvie senses that this call is different from the
others, especially when they are lured to the old church on the outskirts of
town. Once there, her parents disappear,
one after the other, behind the church’s red door, leaving Sylvie alone in the
car. Not long after, she drifts off to
sleep, only to wake to the sound of gunfire.
As the story
weaves back and forth through the years leading up to that night and the months
following, the ever-inquisitive Sylvie searches for answers and uncovers
secrets that have haunted her family for years.
Capturing the
vivid eeriness of Stephen King’s works and the quirky tenderness of John Irving’s
novels, Help for the Haunted is told
in the captivating voice of a young heroine who is determined to discover the
truth about what happened on that winter night.
My Review:
I found Help for the Haunted a bit too drawn out
and long. I kept thinking the author
just kept adding information just to make the book long enough to call it a
novel.
The story was
eerie enough and sort of had you looking around the room and a times I wasn’t
sure I wanted to go down into our basement alone again. Although the storyline was good, this just
wasn’t my cup of tea. One thing the book
did for me was to ensure I never have “dolls” in my house. Can’t tell you why but you’ll understand once
you read the story.
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