All of that does not need to be rehashed through a book that is suppose to be about a haunted house. Also there is quite a bit of speeches from the Prime Minister on the covid outbreak and there are sections in the chapter where he is droning on about what you should or should not do while being locked down. My mind kept drifting as I was reading and I never could actually become entrenched with this book. The story itself just didn't move along at a quick pace and I wasn't crazy about any of the characters. So that is one thing I didn't care for and if it was once in awhile wouldn't be so bad, but it is every other chapter. In a horror book which is suppose to be about a haunted house I don't want to see images of products within the book that has nothing to do with the 'haunting'. Well that wouldn't be so bad, but the author puts actual images in of what Lisa is buying and discussing in her blog. This book is just downright strange as the character Lisa is a blogger and there will be chapters where she is writing the blog and she adds links to stuff that she buys or whatever. When they start to get a little settled things start happening gradually, but Lisa just doesn't think that there could be anything supernatural going on with the home as she just thinks it is an old house with some problems. Lisa along with her husband Adam and their children are forced to stay penned up in a new home that they just moved into.

The time setting of the story is back last year right when covid hit everyone and the countries started locking down. Usually I love books by Rick Wood and normally I am carted away into the horror realm of his mind, but this book went off the rails and crashed down into the canyon below! Unfortunately this book is being plopped on my dnf shelf with no rating.

Haunted House by Rick Wood