5+ Stars
This "Haunted House" story I found exceptional for several reasons. Throughout the book, Thomas and Felix are such a cogent "odd couple," really a perfectly matched set of opposites, a pair who constantly play riffs off each other. Next, there's humour: not a fictional aspect I usually seek out, but here it's a welcome leavening, and I can see it working effectively if this novel was a stage play [and oddly, that would be my choice in preference to: a Horror film--which seques right into my next point], these guys are like horror film memory champions! Like kids of the 50's memorizing Baseball stats, these guys know their B-movies!
But best of all, there's the SCARES, the tongue-in-cheek reactions of Felix and Thomas; and finally, That Denouement. Not in a million years...and my reaction was horror, grief, sorrow, astoundment, horror....and still pondering two days later. What a story!
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