Lisa's Reviews > Posthaste Manor

The writing is vivid and takes an inventive approach to the typical haunted house story, but I'm not exactly sold on this as a "composite novel." I appreciated the first half of the book, which unfolds a dual storyline about two inhabitants (in different times) of Posthaste Manor. I especially liked the choice to have two Chapter Ones, two Chapter Twos, etc. But the second half of the book, a collection of stories filling in Posthaste Manor's history, felt like an appendix. Not that these stories aren't great--I loved the story written as an interview with a couple who escaped the house, with sidebars from a neighbor and even "quotes" from Posthaste Manor itself. But I can't help but feel that all of this would've been more satisfying if woven into or interspersed with the dual narrative. As it is, I feel like I was handed all the authors' notes for a novel rather than a finished manuscript.