Hill House by Blair Howard


Hill House by Blair Howard
Publisher: self
Genre: Contemporary, Suspense/Mystery
Length: Full (330 pgs)
Rating: 4 stars
Review by Rose

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This is the third in the Harry Starke series, but no worries if you haven’t read the first two. The author promises that this is a fully standalone book, and he delivers on that pledge. There are undercurrents of relationships I think would be more fully understood had one read the other two (an interesting jealousy/understanding dichotomy between Kate and Amanda, for one).

Hill House is a very plot driven book. The author doesn’t spend a lot of time on the characters and their personalities, but they are not stock characters either. They each have their way of doing things. The romance lover in me was a little nonplussed by some of the actions, but that was probably because of the unfamiliarity with the characters’ history as mentioned before.

I loved the mystery of the book, though, and that’s completely solid and standalone. The solution of the mystery caught me off-guard, which doesn’t often happen to me when I read mysteries, so kudos to the author for that. Now I have to go back and reread the book to see if I missed any clues—after I read the first two books that is!

Good job, Mr. Howard, and I look forward to putting you on my list of auto-buys!

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  4. Many Thanks for the kind and positive review. I’m glad you liked the story. You’re right about the characters. Although the book is a true stand alone, they have developed throughout the series.

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