This started out as a fairly
promising "Psychics investigate a troubled house" book, but the
beginning was a bit slow, and bogged down by a lot of completely
unnecessary personal issues. A lot of time was spent unravelling some of the history between some of the characters, but for all the time taken, I felt like I got very little real feeling of most of the personalities. The photographer is sarcastic, the psychic is naive, the extra psychic is (maybe?) jealous? There is some history between them all that is never fully explained, but just agressively hinted at.
Eventually, things started to get good, only to
take off at the speed of a runaway train. The house being investigated really starts rocking, flapping its plastic and setting off some spooky effects. Even then, there was less information I wanted (once again, the house's history was hinted at, but not detailed the way I would have liked.) The finale felt rushed and
unfinished, and a lot of the carefully laid-out sub-plots seemed to go
nowhere or ended totally unsatisfactorily. It feels like this book ended
halfway through, and I liked it just enough to wish that it had been
completed.
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