The Haunted E-Book

The Haunted E-Book
By: J.L. Bryan
Genre: Horror



Publishers Summary:

Dee escapes her dreary librarian job and unfaithful boyfriend by reading romance and fantasy on her Kindle.

She tries The Haunted E-book, the story of a 19th century tramp printer whose ghost awakens whenever someone reads a book he created. The ghost stalks his readers and threatens them with death if they stop reading the book. Though she doesn’t usually like ghost stories, Dee can’t stop herself from reading it.

Then Dee learns the stories in the books are true, the malevolent ghost is real, and Dee might be the next character to die.

My Review:

This book was given free for review. The writing is a bit clunky and it could have been smoother, but as a whole the idea behind it is one that has been done before. It was nice though to see the idea flushed out via a kindle to make us e-book readers set down whatever we’re reading the book with to take a look at our surroundings to make sure someone else is at least in the house with us. (I know I did)

I have to admit the bits of sex scenes rather made me roll my eyes and felt out of place and could have been better executed if not removed from it at all. The dance between humor and horror was nice and I found myself laughing several times, if not always at what would be deemed the funny parts of the storyline as they became just too much at some points to handle without laughing.

I have to agree with some other reviewers that the characters fall short of the mark and that development was needed desperately. As a writer myself, character development is something I love doing and diving into a past finding things you weren’t sure where there is always a nice surprise, but it’s depressing when a writer with potential, as I’ve said, makes his character fall short of the mark.