What do You think about The Black House (1996)?
So, this is the kind of book that if I was reading it to study, I would find things to say about it - especially good things. But since was reading it for pleasure (pleasure which was pretty lacking, frankly), no such luck. Firstly, this book is in the character study style of storytelling, so not much of interest actually happens. There's bits of older racial attitudes, how village life is universal, and the link of the supposed prescence in the house and Munday's affair borders on interesting but since the ghostly goings on are implied, and personally I see it in context more as a metaphor than an actual thread of the plot. And since I initially decided to read the book hoping it might be somewhat supernatural, that was disappointing. However, I often do enjoy character studies - Remains of the Day, for example - but I didn't care about anyone in this book and I was very glad to finish it. I put it down for a time while I read something more interesting and was very tempted not to pick it back up again.
—Kylie
