House (2006)

Honstly? I was really disappointed by this one. It doesn't live up to the standards set by neither Ted Dekker nor Frank Peretti, but was more the sort of book I'd expect somebody like Stephen King or Dean Koontz to write. The symbolisms were more heavy-handed than even Narnia (don't get me wrong, I love that series, but subtle it is not). To give the book the benefit of doubt it may just be that it's not a book appropriate for audiobook format, and I might have thought differently if I'd read it myself instead. ( )

Awful ( )

HOUSE RULES:

1. God came to my house and I killed him
2. I will kill anyone who comes to my house like I killed God
3. Give me one dead body and I might let Rule #2 slide

You have until dawn.

As Jack and Stephanie Singleton are traveling along a back road in Alabama, they start to become picky at each other. After the stress of losing their daughter, Melissa, and their divorce coming up shortly, the next thing they need is to have Jack carelessly driving.

As they now take off, thanks to a patrolman’s guidance, they are sure to get to the divorce meeting on time. However, while they’re traveling along this back road, they notice that they’ve driven-60 miles, when the cop said it would only take 40. Also, they were heading onto their second hour of the clock of driving on this dirt road when the cop said it would only take about an hour. As they continue along this road, all four of their tires get blown to shreds.

Thankfully there was a hotel not too far away, so they decided to walk towards it. Inside they find another couple, Randy and Leslie, whose story is identical to theirs of how they wound up there. As they learn more about each other, they find out that the ‘inbred of the home’, Betty, Stewart, and Pete are a little more creepy than they thought, as they turn against them.

When a can is tossed down the chimney with these rules written on it, they begin to panic. This madman who wrote these rules(Aka: Tin man and White) has locked them in this house for them to kill someone. As the house shifts itself and changes its patterns, its as if it senses where they are going, so it sends them the other way.

Do you think they can make it out alive? The two couples trying to avoid four people who are trying to murder them. Will they eventually turn on each other? Will they be able to escape? Find out yourself in this heart pounding, marvelous book!

House by Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti is an extraordinary story. This realistic-fiction piece is so unbelievably good you won’t be able to put it down. From the moment I saw the elaborate cover, I wanted to read the summary about this book. From just read the ‘House Rules’ I knew I wanted to read this book.

Frank and Ted team up to create this image in your head, where you can see every little spec of the book. From walking down the staircase to the black fog, you could imagine it all. They put such good characterization that you know just by the description of the characters if they are good or bad. Also, the setting blends perfectly into the character’s emotions and feelings. Everything is well developed and perfectly structured. This book is filled with suspense, drama, and so many other elements blended with each other that I couldn’t say one bad thing about this book, even if I wanted to-I wouldn’t know what to say. This book will have you jumping out of your seat to find out what will happen next. House has easily become my all time favorite book I have ever read.

If you like to read about blood, gore, fighting, mind trapping, fiction, killing, or any other genre besides non-fiction, you will adore this book! I would have to rate this book easily a five out of five stars. If you haven’t read it yet, what are you waiting for? Go read it! I can guarantee you that you will like it. ( )

I really liked this book. It was full of suspense, though it's alittle pbvious who the killer is, but even so, very well done. I kept thinking this was like a movie I saw at some point, and it turns out this book was made into a movie, but it was a lot better than the movie. It wasn't "in your face" Christianity either, which is nice, because I don't like being preached at, but the moral of the story is there, very blatant, and makes you think. ( )

House is about four people trapped inside a house with a serial killer. The killer not so coincidentally place two mats with nails in the road for people to drive over. The four people are Stephanie, Jack, Leslie, and Randy. The killer, White, tells them to give him a dead body by sunrise. While the four are debating this, the family who lives in the house makes the house a horror for them. They don't know if the person around the corner is going to kill them. They don't know how to get out. They can't trust anyone. They move around from room to room trying to get away.........will they succeed?

I am not usually a fan of horror, but this book got me hooked from the start. Its a maze of twists and turns where you don't know what will happen next. When I finished reading it, I was like WOW. Now I want to read more of these kind of books but I'm not sure which one yet. One thing I didn't like was that it was a little gory. But overall, this book was amazing and I loved it. ( )