The Haunting of Beacon Hill

The Beckoning Dead, Book 1

By: Ambrose Ibsen

Narrated by: Melissa Moran

Sadie has a gift. And she'll do anything to keep from using it.

At 16, Sadie Young had a brush with death, and as a result she became more sensitive to the supernatural. Rather than embrace this gift, she spent years running from it, and from the darkness that once preyed upon her.

Now 25 and working as a librarian, Sadie is called upon by a desperate family friend to look into a strange series of events. A teenaged girl has entered a reputedly haunted house in town and has gone mad. Committed, the girl attempts suicide and claims to be terrorized at all hours by a horrific specter known as "Mother Maggot".

Despite having subdued her gift for the past nine years, Sadie wishes to assist the girl and reticently agrees to visit the site of the haunting. But upon entering the house on Beacon Hill, she discovers that Mother Maggot isn't merely a figment of a disturbed teen's imagination....

©2019 Ambrose Ibsen (P)2019 Tantor

suspenseful

I lo Ed the story, but it got a little bit confusing at the end

Good Book

I really enjoyed the book. Great story. Loved the characters. Narrator did a wonderful job. Thank you Ambrose

Library NOT libary... or LIBARIAN

I'm not sure I want to finish the book with the main character being a librarian and the narrator keeps saying LIBARY & LIBARIAN. UGH

Annoying narrator

I really wanted to like this, but I cannot even give it a proper rating because I cannot stand the narrator's voice enough to listen through the book. Another reviewer likened it to her reading to preschoolers, and I agree. Her voice acting is alright, but I'd rather go without and just hear the book read well. I would have liked to hear it read in a deeper, more soothing voice. Her timbre is just all wrong for this type of novel.

very interesting

I'm not real sure how to say it but the book was great story was amazing the readers voice was even good but there's 1 thing the reader did while reading that really hits a nerve. I got through that and finish the book also ready for book 2.

fantastic story; poor reader

I genuinely loved this story. it was fun and I enjoyed the characters. I don't know that I'll listen to the sequels though because they're all red by the same narrator. she annoys me all the way to my very soul. she pronounces the word library like lieberry. over and over and over. And the main character and her only friends are librarians at the local public library. so the word comes up a lot. And it's like I'd get so into the story I'd forget about it and then that word would pop up and she would just make me scream and want to punch myself in the face

Liberry

Unless she’s working with a lisp, the narrator needs to go. She can’t pronounce library, her characters voices are poor, and her “t’s“ are too strong while her “s’s“ are too soft. Even her “o’s” are nasally. Her reading detracts from the story.

Mispronunciation

The story was intriguing, though the defeat of Mother Maggot was a little anticlimactic, but did leave a sense of impending dread for the sequel to come. What bothered me the most and almost made me return this title is the narrator’s mispronunciation of the word Library. The main characters apparently work at a liberry and are liberrians. Did no one listen before they released the audio?!

Great Spooky Story

Spooky story I thoroughly enjoyed and feel anyone will enjoy regardless of age. The narrator did a great job reading and the story kept me engaged while I sit here sewing away. :)

Good narration but secondary character is annoying

The main character is good, but the secondary character, written as a best friend of sorts, is horrible to the protagonist. Not listening to her concerns, pressuring her, acting arrogant, and putting her in repeated danger. Yet he is written in as if he is the good guy. It's just cringy and annoying.