I gave it my best shot, but this book sucks so bad I can't continue. There is literally nothing happening and I made it halfway through. ( )

It started out exciting and interesting but the story is lost almost completely but the end. I can understand being fascinated by your new house in Black Earth, WI. But really? That's the best you can do? Leave the local stories (even fictional ones) to the people of Black Earth. I bet anyone else could have written a more exciting and scary story. ( )

First half was great...second half HORRIBLE. Don't waste your time! ( )

Non lo consiglio ( )

From Amazon:

A chilling ghost story that is also a tale of exquisite psychological suspense, The Birthing House marks the debut of a writer whose first novel is a terrifying tour de force.
Conrad and Joanna Harrison, a young couple from Los Angeles, attempt to save their marriage by leaving the pressures of the city to start anew in a quiet, rural setting. They buy a Victorian mansion that once served as a haven for unwed mothers, called a birthing house. One day when Joanna is away, the previous owner visits Conrad to bequeath a vital piece of the house’s historic heritage, a photo album that he claims “belongs to the house.” Thumbing through the old, sepia-colored photographs of midwives and fearful, unhappily pregnant girls in their starched, nineteenth-century dresses, Conrad is suddenly chilled to the bone: staring back at him with a countenance of hatred and rage is the image of his own wife….Thus begins a story of possession, sexual obsession, and, ultimately, murder, as a centuries-old crime is reenacted in the present.

My Thoughts:

If you have read what the book description says the book is about..and if you are a dyed in the wool ghost story fanatic...you have probably already made plans to find this book. STOP! Don't bother. You won't find that story in this book. I just doesn't exit. When I was up to page 100 I started asking myself "What happened?" "Where is the ghost?" It's hard to misplace a ghost, people! What you do get is a lot of slimy sex scenes, neighbors who don't have a clue, characters you can't keep straight, and a virgin snake birth...you red it right...not making that up...that doesn't go anywhere. I could not figure out who was going crazy, what was really happening, who was the good guy, who was the bad guy. I believe the idea started out god but somewhere between Christopher Ransom typing the last word and the publication, the entire thing just fizzled. I'm going to be generous and give it 2.5 stars because I have read two other of his books that were good. Most reviewers...almost 60%..gave it 1 or 2 stars.
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