The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike
I picked this up at the library right before we went to the beach thinking it would be a good beach read-scary books don't work so well for me at home because I do a lot of my reading after everyone is asleep I tend to freak myself out...but at the beach, a) someone is always awake and b) I'd be able to read it in the light of day on a beach!
The book is about a young family in Japan who moves into a haunted hotel. Its translated from Japanese to English but I don't think that it lost much in translation, though its hard to say for sure. That aside, the writing was fine-nothing that I bumped on. The plot though-not so much. The husband's ex-wife was a suicide and by the end of the book we are well versed in her life and death, but it remains as background to the whole story and never gets incorporated into the action. Its like the smoking gun that turns out to just be a funny color grey-not really important at all. And the ending-ugh. Let's just say it was unsatisfying. At the end of the day, it was not that scary, it was not that compelling, and it was not that good.
#6, Bearable, Just barely. Glad I didn't pay for it.
The book is about a young family in Japan who moves into a haunted hotel. Its translated from Japanese to English but I don't think that it lost much in translation, though its hard to say for sure. That aside, the writing was fine-nothing that I bumped on. The plot though-not so much. The husband's ex-wife was a suicide and by the end of the book we are well versed in her life and death, but it remains as background to the whole story and never gets incorporated into the action. Its like the smoking gun that turns out to just be a funny color grey-not really important at all. And the ending-ugh. Let's just say it was unsatisfying. At the end of the day, it was not that scary, it was not that compelling, and it was not that good.
#6, Bearable, Just barely. Glad I didn't pay for it.
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