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Hey, did we decide to skip voting for January?
I was waiting for everyone else to vote on they’re books
Yeah I saw that and I guess everyone else is busy
Still think if someone posts - someone should vote even if they don't post....
Well I have joined the game and voted! A tad late maybe but we can play the game (and read the books obviously too). 😊
I have started my Jan read of
Silverhill by Phyllis A. Whitney and so far it is really good! Although if I was Malinda I would get out of that huge house where I was not wanted... Add in a power hungry grandmother who refuses to see her and an aunt who is supposedly crazy? And no one will tell Malinda how she got that scar on her face when she was visiting Silverhill when she was only 4 years old. Malinda has come back to bury her mother who has just died + she wants the truth. And weird freaky stuff keeps happening in the house too... I am about 1/3 of the way through the book so far.
And for unknown reasons everyone had chosen this one... I think the author is popular.
I have finished my book! I rated it 5 stars!
Silverhill by Phyllis A. WhitneyThis book is about how secrets and others controlling you can twist you into very strange personalities. Unbalanced. Then add a lot of money into that mix with an old woman who is leaving a will - you end up with a dynamite situation. And poor Malinda walks right into that nightmare house called Silverhill.
I really can't say why this hasn't been read more. Its quite the creepy gothic story with deep family secrets, a huge collection of suspicious characters who have their own schemes, legends about the woods of silver birch right outside the house (and for unknown reasons Melinda is scared of those trees) and yes there is a murderer in the house! Plus Malinda has gone there to finally learn the truth of what had happened to her when she had visited the house many years ago when she had been only 4-years-old and why that visit had left a huge unsightly scar on her face. Her mother refused to tell her the truth.
But now her mother is dead and Malinda has returned to Silverhill - to a very cold welcome. Her grandmother, Julia, rules the house with an iron fist. Everyone has to listen to her. And Julia doesn't want Malinda around.
But Malinda has also come because of a dying request from her mother: to help her poor Aunt Fritzie (her mother's sister). But Fritzie has a lot of problems. And Malinda is not allowed to see her.
So I found this story to be well written. There were so many suspects living in that house I didn't guess who the killer was. And the house itself is definitely a character too. Its well described, both the area where Malinda is supposed to stay and then there was the other area - where her aunt was kept. Quite the shock when I read that part. And Melinda does a lot of snooping in here. She is quite bold and she has that independent streak, willing to brashly stand up for what she thinks is right. Because she doesn't like what she sees going on in that house. Its a very dark place. And too many people have been twisted.
And in one scene she very literally shrieks in terror. And yes scary things happen in here too.
But do you know which character really steals the book? Is Aunt Fritzie!! What a personality!! She really comes to life and lightens the whole entire story while at the same time she is living in a nightmare. I truly loved the scenes with her, especially the one where we first meet her.
Many of the lesser characters do not really stand out too much but we do get a sense of who they are.
And the scene when Malinda first goes to see Aunt Fritzie, the description of that part of the house, truly shocked me.
A great story!!
I finished 2 in January and they were called The Locked Door by Freida McFadden and The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden
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Books mentioned in this topic
The Locked Door (other topics)The Housemaid's Secret (other topics)
Silverhill (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Freida McFadden (other topics)Phyllis A. Whitney (other topics)
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