Buch: The Crying - Autor: Hazel Riley ~Brauche Informationen~
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Recovering from a long illness, Sam moves into a flat of her own, to make a new, independent start. The only problem is that the spare room in the flat has something very wrongwith it. It's cold, it has a strange atmosphere, and strange pools of water gather on the floor without explanation. Then the old lady downstairs, who keeps talking about someone called Grace, who she insists will be coming back to the flat. As Sam finds out the truth about Grace, and the reason the flat is haunted - with some hair-raising encounters with Grace's ghost along the way - so she starts to come to terms with her own problems in a very satisfying conclusion.
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The Crying
Hazel Riley
Review by Sarah Mears
Sam moves away from her home to live in a flat in Brighton. However she begins to have second thoughts when she starts to believe that the flat is haunted. This is a story which looks at unrest: Grace, the ghost who cannot rest because of the tragic way in which she died and Sam who has experienced long term sickness and has escaped her family to find some peace and healing.
The theme of this story is interesting; resoultion and recovery. However, it lacks conviction. The Brighton described in this story is a clean sanitised place. The raves on the pier are happy, safe and drug free, lacking the excitement and energy of the real city and its young transient inhabitants. Sam's thirteen year old sister, Kate, is old and wise beyond her years and I doubted that her family would readily have allowed her to travel alone to stay with her sister. Jade, who has psychic skills, is a homeless teenager wandering alone, yet her situation is depicted as carefree rather than a struggle for survival.
The book reads at a steady, sometimes slow pace. The ghoslty happenings are not frightening, although the reader may empathise with Sam's fear. The final chapter reflects on Jade rather central character Sam. This feels awkward - as if there had been a different story going on, which the reader has not been privileged to experience.
This is a disappointing story lacking a sense of excitement and internal truth.
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Das ist alles was ich auf die Schnelle finden konnte, suche nachher weiter- gehe erstmal ins Bett
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The Crying
Hazel Riley
Review by Sarah Mears
Sam moves away from her home to live in a flat in Brighton. However she begins to have second thoughts when she starts to believe that the flat is haunted. This is a story which looks at unrest: Grace, the ghost who cannot rest because of the tragic way in which she died and Sam who has experienced long term sickness and has escaped her family to find some peace and healing.
The theme of this story is interesting; resoultion and recovery. However, it lacks conviction. The Brighton described in this story is a clean sanitised place. The raves on the pier are happy, safe and drug free, lacking the excitement and energy of the real city and its young transient inhabitants. Sam's thirteen year old sister, Kate, is old and wise beyond her years and I doubted that her family would readily have allowed her to travel alone to stay with her sister. Jade, who has psychic skills, is a homeless teenager wandering alone, yet her situation is depicted as carefree rather than a struggle for survival.
The book reads at a steady, sometimes slow pace. The ghoslty happenings are not frightening, although the reader may empathise with Sam's fear. The final chapter reflects on Jade rather central character Sam. This feels awkward - as if there had been a different story going on, which the reader has not been privileged to experience.
This is a disappointing story lacking a sense of excitement and internal truth.
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Das ist alles was ich auf die Schnelle finden konnte, suche nachher weiter- gehe erstmal ins Bett
