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The Good House By Tananarive Due ( Simon & Schuster )
Release Date: 2006-12
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Product Description
The home that belonged to Angela Toussaint's late grandmother is so beloved that townspeople in Sacajawea, Washington, call it the Good House. But that all changes one summer when an unexpected tragedy takes place behind its closed doors...and the Toussaint's family history -- and future -- is dramatically transformed. Angela has not returned to the Good House since her son, Corey, died there two years ago. But now, Angela is finally ready to return to her hometown and go beyond the grave to unearth the truth about Corey's death. Could it be related to a terrifying entity Angela's grandmother battled seven decades ago? And what about the other senseless calamities that Sacajawea has seen in recent years? Has Angela's grandmother, an African American woman reputed to have "powers," put a curse on the entire community? A thrilling exploration of secrets, lies, and divine inspiration, "The Good House" will haunt readers long after its chilling conclusion.
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Amazon.com Review
In The Good House, acclaimed novelist Tananarive Due enters classic Stephen King territory. Her novel, set in a small Northern town, centers on a haunted house under a deadly curse. But don't let the comparison scare you: This dark, imaginative, skillfully written page-turner is a novel only Tananarive Due could write. Early in the Twentieth Century, a powerful voodoo priestess followed her guiding spirit from New Orleans to a small town in Washington State. But in pride and anger, Marie Toussaint unleashed a new--and very different--spirit. Now, ignorant of both her heritage and the curse, Angela Toussaint returns to her dead Grandmother Marie's house, seeking to heal her fractured relationships with her son and her husband. But the malicious spirit wishes only the destruction of the Toussaints; and as it did in her grandmother's day, it inflicts horrific death and destruction upon the isolated town. Soon Angela has lost almost everyone she loves; and she must somehow uncover the secrets of her unknown heritage if she is to have a prayer of saving her true love--and her own soul. Tananarive Due has written the unconventional vampire novels My Soul to Keep and its sequel, The Living Blood; The Black Rose (a finalist for the NAACP Image Award); and The Between (a Bram Stoker Award nominee). With Dave Barry, Edna Buchanan, Carl Hiassen, Elmore Leonard, and eight others, Due is coauthor of Naked Came the Manatee. --Cynthia Ward
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 Please Let It End
Oh my heaven's! Is this bad. It took me three month's to get to the last 7 chapter's. Filled with lot's of fluff that doesn't really need to be in the story, it dragged and dragged. Looking forward to putting this one back on the shelf. Good idea but it never got off the runway.
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 Another "Due" Author
I am honored to sit on the shelves next to Tananarive Due. She is a great writer and has a true talent for pulling her readers into the story. Due made me know and love her characters; what a gift. The Good House was my first experience with Tananarive Due, but it will not be my last.
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I love Ms. Due!! ( kelle_2 )
I love this author and I have the other novels that she's written. Although this book came out a while ago, I just picked it up when I bought her newest novel Blood Colony. I must say, this was a really good book. The way she crafts her words into images that you feel you can actually see is just amazing! The book is slow in some parts, but it's very well worth the read. I'm glad I bought it. I also like the fact that she mentioned ever so briefly two of the characters from her 3 book set (My Soul to Keep, Living Blood, Blood Colony). It made me want to go back and see if she mentioned one of the characters in THIS book in one of those!! Highly recommended. I didn't give it five stars because there were some things that weren't clear, but not enough to bother me too much.
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 The deadweight is in the details ( theodora777 )
I am breaking a long-standing rule of mine and reviewing a product before I finish it. I'm giving this book three stars because that's the best rating I could conceivably give a book that took nearly 200 pages to get moving, regardless of what happens in the 400 remaining pages. Now that it's going, it's going nicely, but a much leaner and more chronologically linear approach to storytelling would have made for a much shorter and more effective first half. Also, if it is true, as I have read, that this book devotes a section to plugging the works of Due's husband, that would take another star off the rating; product placement in books is increasing, but that would be a new low. Looks like the editor was asleep at the wheel on this one.
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 Amazing work
Due is an amazing author, don't know what else to say. Highly recommend this book.
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