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    Whisper

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    Doveva essere un nuovo inizio per Steve e Melody Samson. Un luogo in cui cominciare una nuova vita insieme, lontano dal caos e dai pericoli della città. Ma la loro nuova casa, una graziosa villa isolata nel bel mezzo della densa foresta di Oakwell, ha una storia inquietante, che gli abitanti del posto hanno tenuto segreta per generazioni. Un’entità malvagia dimora a Villa Speranza e nella foresta maledetta che la circonda. Un’entità che si è risvegliata dopo decenni di inattività ed ha intenzioni terribili nei confronti della giovane coppia. Se senti i sussurri, potrebbe già essere troppo tardi.

    LinguaItaliano
    EditoreBadPress
    Data di uscita12 feb 2018
    ISBN9781507162200
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    • 4/5
      Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book as part of another Librarything Advance Readers Giveaway for Bray's second book in this trilogy. It is truly an awesome feeling to get a second book free when you win one book. :) This is still an honest review though.Short review: The book was continuously spooky throughout (a good thing) and had a decent story.Long review:I was hoping to read a book that gave me chills and made me feel scared. I got what I wanted :) This book conveys a nicely oppressive atmosphere and more than once made me look up nervously to check that no one was watching me. I made sure to read this late at night, alone in my room to maximize any feelings of terror, and that really helped. I remember there was one night where every two minutes I kept glancing up from the book to make sure no one was standing in my doorway. It was scary. It was fun.The story itself was pretty neat. The history of the place and what happened there was nicely explained and fairly well thought out. But one thing doesn't add up for me. If the trees are the victims of the Gogoku clan, then why are they angry all the time and try to kill people. Especially at the end, they seemed to want to help the Gogoku by impeding Steve from reaching the circle in time. Only the circle is the Gogoku spirits' haunting place if I'm not mistaken. The only explanation I can see is that the blood of the Gogoku had some negative effect on the trees and made them evil. Maybe Bray will expand on this in his next book. One annoying thing was that I felt that Steve and Melody could've possibly had less issues and things would've been easier if they were more open with each other. I suppose that some couples are like the couple in the book and so that kind of relationship is believable, if annoying at times (several times at that).Overall, I got what I wanted and am looking forward to seeing how the story plays out in the next book.
    • 3/5
      This traditional horror yarn from author Michael Bray and Horrific Takes Publishing is the opening book in the "Whisper Trilogy". Bray's story follows a well-established trope around city-dwellers moving to their dream country house and getting into all kinds of bother. In this case it's Steve and Melody who purchase the inappropriately named Hope House, located in the middle of a forest, close to a small tight knit community. Everything seems perfect at first, but soon weird, unexplainable events are happening. They begin to uncover secrets amongst the local community about a massacre that happened in the forest centuries before and begin to suspect that not all the ghosts of that massacre have been laid to rest. I read this all the way to the end, more to see how it would finish than out of any real sense of enjoyment. The story was fairly predictable; Steve and Melody weren't particularly sympathetic or well-developed characters; some of the narrative didn't knit together satisfactorily; the central mystery wasn't very engaging and the addition of a psychopathic serial killer to the mix was unnecessary. To be fair the opening chapters of the book were very good and set up the story nicely, but by the time the author got to the middle of his story it felt as if he were unsure as to where to go with it. He managed to put all the building blocks for a classic horror / ghost story in place, but unfortunately didn't manage to pull them all together into a satisfactory whole. That said I did stay with the book all the way to the end as I was keen to see how it ended and I probably will (at some stage) pick up the next book in the trilogy
    • 5/5
      When Steve and Melody buy Hope House, they can't believe their luck. The house is beautiful, isolated and the perfect place to begin their lives together. Unfortunately for them, Hope House has a deadly secret. A secret that the local community will go to any lengths to keep.Whisper is, without a doubt, one of the best ghost stories I've read in the last few years. Not since Heart Shaped Box has a tale chilled me like this. All of the characters are well drawn and believable, and Bray builds the tension slowly, but relentlessly, interspersing the quieter moments with flashbacks showing what happened to the previous owners of the house.And it works brilliantly.As the story progressed, I became increasingly drawn into the world that Bray paints, and I read the last half of the book in a single sitting, because I just could not put it down.Highly recommended.
    • 3/5
      This is a full-length horror novel with plenty of good ideas and potential, plenty of opportunities to scare me silly, but unfortunately it fell a bit flat for this reader.Love the mixture of villains, both supernatural (the Gogoku and the cannibalized children) and -- well, you can't call Donovan either mundane or normal, so let's just say non-supernatural. Love the haunted house that messes with your mind, has you seeing and believing things that aren't, that can kill through hypnotizing its prey, or at least I'll call it that for lack of a better term; maybe mind control? Anyways, it's a great combo of imaginative ideas, and the way they're layered into the story is appealing.There are at least two approaches to building horror and suspense: keeping the reader guessing through strange happenings without explanations; and giving the reader all info up front and letting her watch with horror as the various elements interact. Author Michael Bray chose the latter course, letting us know we're dealing with a curse in the prologue and showing it in operation with several early flashback chapters. I can't help thinking he'd have achieved more of his goal with the former option. Some guessing here could have been powerful.As the book stands, being told the characters are feeling uneasy and listening to them argue about how they feel didn't engage me. Characters behaved inconsistently, one scene believing the house to be cursed, the next saying there had to be a rational explanation. The male lead, Steven, only bought the house because he loved his wife and would do anything for her, but as the book unfolded, he didn't do several things for her even when she begged, and these were much smaller actions than investing his last penny into a tumble-down historic house he didn't even like. And the female lead, Melody, claimed not to believe, but steadfastly refused to touch the Ouija board. If she didn't believe, why not? To her it should have been only a silly game. She never gave a convincing reason, just a barrage of emotion.[SPOILER ALERT]Also, I have serious problems with a character doing Something Stupid to advance the plot. There's a scene where a guy who makes Melody nervous comes calling while she's home alone taking a bath, and she runs downstairs wearing nothing but a towel and throws the door open without first asking who's there. Then she asks the guy to stay for refreshments. I cannot imagine a woman who's lived in NYC all her life doing anything of the sort and the scene brought me to a dead stop, suspension of disbelief gone. Couldn't pick the book back up until the next day, and the enjoyment factor never quite returned.[END SPOILERS]Author Bray has a good strong writing style, able to carry the story and build tension within scenes. I'm told he's best known for his horrific short stories and I'll have to check some of those out; the problems I had with this book would likely be avoided in a shorter work. As it stands, we'll call this one three stars and I'm going back for seconds.Note that I won a copy of this book through the Library Thing Member Giveaway program, in exchange for an honest review.
    • 5/5
      I don't usually read much in the way of horror and/or paranormal literature as I usually find this genre to be a bit of a let down filled with cliches, predictability or idiotic characters. Thankfully Michael Bray's Whisper is an exception to the fodder filled genre.The plot begin with a couple of city-folk moving into an old house in the middle of a forest, however as time passes things begin to... happen. It then becomes apparent the house has a sordid history and the welcoming townsfolk many not have their best interests at heart.Excellent story.
    • 4/5
      This is exactly the type of supernatural thriller that I love (and I read in one sitting)!Throughout history a patch of land in the quaint village of Oakwell has been cursed. 1500's- A tribesman mysteriously kills all of his people and sets them, his village and himself aflame.1800's- A stubborn business man insists on building a large house in the middle of the woods with the help of slave labor.Present Day- Steve and Melody Samson are looking to escape from city life. They find a cheap fixer-upper in the middle of the woods that Melody is drawn to. Steve thinks it is plain old creepy. As soon as they move in, Steve begins to hear strange whispering and is having nightmares. The townsfolk are very reluctant to tell them anything about the house's history. Can you hear the woods whispering for you? If you can, it may already be too late...I really enjoyed this ghostly thriller. I thought the pace of the build of suspense was just right. The plot was unique with the both fear of the supernatural and the natural. The characters were believable, but definitely were making some weird choices (isn't that always the case with horror stories?) The supporting character of Donovan gave me chills!Whisper was received for free in return for an honest review.
    • 4/5
      This was a fun horror novel. While I agree with some of the other reviews regarding simple language and a little unevenness in the characters, I didn't find that these were heavy detractors from the story. The atmosphere is well set and the story line is interesting. I really enjoyed the flashbacks to previous periods in the area and at the house site. Overall, there is a great mix of a lot of good ideas. I'm looking forward to seeing what book 2 holds.
    • 5/5
      Whispers on the wind..whispers in the woods..something is stirring..something is coming!

      The Samson's (Steve and Melody) decided to move out to the country to get away from the city life. Melody falls in love with the cottage (Hope House) and sees lots of potential for her and her husband to fix it up. Steve is a little unsure of the cottage as he just has a weary feeling in his stomach that something is just not right. Steve is also unsure of the realtor, Donovan, as the realtor is really pushing for the sale of the cottage.

      Once the couple gets settled then things start happening not only within the cottage, but outside in the woods and near the stream that runs next to the cottage. The couple starts enduring strange dreams and sleep walking. Steve starts hearing whispers from the woods and wants to investigate the woods that lies behind the cottage. Melody starts noticing the change in Steve and she starts having her own problems with strange occurrences on the property. Melody decides to investigate the woods too and she finds an artifact that she removes from the woods as she wants clarification on what it is and why it is there.

      Some of the townspeople are against them living in the house to the point where everyone doesn't want to talk about the house except for one old woman that seems to know quite a bit of history with the house. When the Samson's seek her out she has quite a story to tell and Steve and Melody do not want to believe what the woman says, but they cannot deny that something is going on in the house as things start escalating to the point where when they leave the house to go to town they do not want to go home.

      As more things start happening, the couple decide to enlist the help of some of the townsfolk with possible history of the property and cottage. What does the couple learn from the towns people? What is the artifact that Melody found? What does the whispers mean? What has invaded their property and cottage? If you want these questions answered, then you will just have to read the book.

      The story is fast paced with a creepy atmospheric feel and though it was not scary, it had a few heebie-jeebie moments in the book!

      This book is part of a trilogy, so I am looking forward to reading the second book in the series "Echoes". Giving this book five stars.

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