14. März
Rating:3

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.

Six Rooms
Six Roomsby Gemma AmorIndependently published
4. Jan.
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Rating:4

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.

Six Rooms
Six Roomsby Gemma AmorIndependently published