Man who lost everything and is haunted by his past purchases house that has a squatter refusing to leave. I'm a sucker for haunted house books (and movies) and enjoyed Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. This follows many of the traditions of the haunted house genre, with a few twists and turns. The writing is clean and clear and,while I wondered on occasion if I was reading a gothic romance, I was absorbed enough to read the entire book in a single day. Recommended if you like haunted house novels with a dash of gothic romance.

Strangely macabre tale. Okay characters and a lukewarm plot.

Just awful.

I had an idea where this was going. But, I was kind of wrong.

Once again, OSC, knocked it out of the park. I'm trying to remember if I ever read one of his books I didn't like.

As I said in the header, I thought I knew where the story was going. But something would shift and I had to rethink my speculation.

Skip this book.

Takes FOREVER to get to the point and then the point is neither scary nor surprising. Ties everything into a bow at the end but by then I couldn't care enough to be disappointed.

Basically this was meant to be a ghost story and ended up being a story telling you just what a great guy Don Lark is ( he's self reliant, honest, a husband not a casual lay, broken but in that desirable way, works with hands). He falls in love twice, there is a ghost and a murder and weird old neighbors but all is terribly boring.

So in the end I've determined Card does well with sci-fi (Ender's series is amazing) but not at horror or suspense.

Chilling and riveting.

Glad to get an Orson Scott Card that isn't Sci-Fi or Fantasy.

3.5

Grade B Romance Novel

I really like Card's writing in the Ender books and in much of his other work. Homebody is just plain sappy. Easy to read but not worthy of much time or effort for the reader.

Slow start but a solid buildup to a satisfying end.

Enjoyable.
Not quite as awesome as many of Card's other stories, but enjoyable to read for sure.

I wanted to like the book & I did like most of it, but there were a couple things in the book that were a little weird to me. How fast Don’s relationship with Cindy started? I just thought all of that was a bit off? Another thing I thought was weird was how Don thought of Sylvie as his daughter then started having feelings for her/ended up together.