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A Supernatural Thriller

By: Joe Hart

Narrated by: Neil Hellegers

Pain, horror, fear - these are the things that have comprised best-selling novelist Lance Metzger's life. His childhood remains a riddled wasteland of abuse by a sadistic father and abandonment by an apathetic mother. In turn his only refuge became his writing.

When Lance loses his ability to write and becomes haunted by a nightmare that he'd thought was buried, he is drawn inexplicably to a house on the shores of Lake Superior, where he finds his muse once again - but something is waiting for him when he arrives. Now he must unlock the devastating secrets that the house holds and uncover the mystery of his own broken past before he loses his sanity - and perhaps his soul.

©2012 Joe Hart (P)2016 Tantor

Narration seems robotic and monotone

This is the first time I’ve left a review on an audio book. The narrator reads in a very staccato and choppy manner and it was very hard to maintain attention. In fact, I’m planning on getting the book on my kindle to read due to missing at least half the book because I couldn’t focus on the words being read. Too bad they don’t give refunds for issues like this. I will be very observant of narrators from now on, that’s for sure.

Great story terrible reader

He reads the entire story with tension in his voice as if he’s leaning over a flashlight telling a ghost story to a bunch of kids. With the constant tone of tension, the story gets monotonous and the actual moments that should create a sense of foreboding get lost. I wanted to finish the book for the story but couldn’t get past the way Neil read it.

🤔 hmm...

i’m definitely on the fence with this book, i thought the story line was really good but in my opinion it has way too much blood and gore, and it’s very very descriptive.

ghost story

not really too bad but I think it could have been better. I feel it just missed. it had a lot of good characters but I think the plot got just a little broad. overall it was a good listen

Fantastic!

Oh my goodness!! This book is so intense. I could not read it at night. I love how Mr. Hart told his story, it really gave me a good fright!! Will be reading more from this author!!