Six Rooms
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Because the ghosts don’t like it when you touch their things.
Bram Stoker Award nominated author Gemma Amor brings you her newest tale of secrets, lies, love, betrayal, greed, family ties, and a house that has seen a great many sights, over the years. Praise for Six Rooms
“Six Rooms starts as an almost whimsical ghost story but devolves inexorably into a series of genuinely dreadful horrors. This descent into violence and greed and regret will leave you thoroughly unsettled.”
–Alan Baxter, author of THE GULP & THE ALEX CAINE SERIES
“Gemma Amor turns her keen eye for character and atmosphere to the nightmare land of ghosts—a gorgeous blend of historical horror and hauntings done right, Six Rooms is at turns chilling and heartbreaking, with enough scares to make sure you leave the lights on. A delight.”
–Laurel Hightower, author of CROSSROADS & WHISPERS IN THE DARK
“Gemma Amor’s Six Rooms is a chilling ghost story that is full of her usual prose magic and haunting imagery. This deftly crafted paranormal yarn will chill the very marrow of your bones, whilst the frenetic pace and readability of Amor’s words will get your heart rate pumping until you turn that final page and can once more breathe easily. This is more than just a ghost story; this is a story about belonging, a story of finding one’s place in the world, but above all else it is a unique and masterful book that takes the paranormal trope and crafts something truly magical… Six Rooms will leave its mark long after reading, mark my words.”
–Ross Jeffery, Bram Stoker Nominated author of TOME, JUNIPER & ONLY THE STAINS REMAIN
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Six Rooms by Gemma Amor was the third book I read this January. It was an interesting read even though I thought the story would go in a completely different direction at the beginning. The story revolves around an exclusive guided tour of the Sunshire chateau where tickets are damn near impossible to get. We follow a group of tourists as they are led through this haunted castle by a tour guide who seems to be a bit off. It's also obvious from the very beginning that something isn't right in this house. The author very artfully drops clues to let us in on the mystery. It's little things like the Tour Guide being late to open the doors even when he thinks he's early or the gardener just sort of showing up and disappearing without anyone really noticing how he arrived or where he went. It's a tense read, and really good structured. We are to learn about the place’s dark history and its ghosts by pulling the thread from room to room until everything unravels and the dark secrets are out. Every tourist finds themselves attracted by an artefact placed around the rooms, which, once touched, provides glimpses of the chateaus past and the gruesome killing spree of Charles Lester. These scenes are brutal and the best part of the novel as the mystery deepens and the killings escalate.
A nice, simple ghost story. There was nothing I truly loved about it but there was also nothing I actively disliked. In general, it's a solid story about revenge and secrets. It wasn't really scary in any way but I really liked the idea of the house and it's many rooms and how memories remained in certain objects.
Description
Because the ghosts don’t like it when you touch their things.
Bram Stoker Award nominated author Gemma Amor brings you her newest tale of secrets, lies, love, betrayal, greed, family ties, and a house that has seen a great many sights, over the years. Praise for Six Rooms
“Six Rooms starts as an almost whimsical ghost story but devolves inexorably into a series of genuinely dreadful horrors. This descent into violence and greed and regret will leave you thoroughly unsettled.”
–Alan Baxter, author of THE GULP & THE ALEX CAINE SERIES
“Gemma Amor turns her keen eye for character and atmosphere to the nightmare land of ghosts—a gorgeous blend of historical horror and hauntings done right, Six Rooms is at turns chilling and heartbreaking, with enough scares to make sure you leave the lights on. A delight.”
–Laurel Hightower, author of CROSSROADS & WHISPERS IN THE DARK
“Gemma Amor’s Six Rooms is a chilling ghost story that is full of her usual prose magic and haunting imagery. This deftly crafted paranormal yarn will chill the very marrow of your bones, whilst the frenetic pace and readability of Amor’s words will get your heart rate pumping until you turn that final page and can once more breathe easily. This is more than just a ghost story; this is a story about belonging, a story of finding one’s place in the world, but above all else it is a unique and masterful book that takes the paranormal trope and crafts something truly magical… Six Rooms will leave its mark long after reading, mark my words.”
–Ross Jeffery, Bram Stoker Nominated author of TOME, JUNIPER & ONLY THE STAINS REMAIN
Book Information
Posts
Six Rooms by Gemma Amor was the third book I read this January. It was an interesting read even though I thought the story would go in a completely different direction at the beginning. The story revolves around an exclusive guided tour of the Sunshire chateau where tickets are damn near impossible to get. We follow a group of tourists as they are led through this haunted castle by a tour guide who seems to be a bit off. It's also obvious from the very beginning that something isn't right in this house. The author very artfully drops clues to let us in on the mystery. It's little things like the Tour Guide being late to open the doors even when he thinks he's early or the gardener just sort of showing up and disappearing without anyone really noticing how he arrived or where he went. It's a tense read, and really good structured. We are to learn about the place’s dark history and its ghosts by pulling the thread from room to room until everything unravels and the dark secrets are out. Every tourist finds themselves attracted by an artefact placed around the rooms, which, once touched, provides glimpses of the chateaus past and the gruesome killing spree of Charles Lester. These scenes are brutal and the best part of the novel as the mystery deepens and the killings escalate.
A nice, simple ghost story. There was nothing I truly loved about it but there was also nothing I actively disliked. In general, it's a solid story about revenge and secrets. It wasn't really scary in any way but I really liked the idea of the house and it's many rooms and how memories remained in certain objects.