The Grip of It
This is a haunted house story about a couple who moves to a new town looking for a fresh start. But I kind of felt like the woman should have been looking for a fresh start without her husband. Where she's an organized, ambitious, kind person who really deserves the best in life, he's a gambling addict who coasts by at a job he's barely competent at. (He's a lazy software engineer, which I have a personal vendetta against). He's dragging her down with him, and she needs to break free. But she doesn't. The book just reaffirms their connection, as I knew it would. Oh well. Aside from not liking one of the main characters, I felt like the pacing of the book was a bit off. The house escalated things way too quickly. I can see how people get trapped when things build slowly, but this went from zero to sixty, and I couldn't believe that the couple would stay as long as they did. Then they managed to escape way too easily, without ever worrying about the next vict...