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Fool's Proof
LIKE A WEIRDLY MALEVOLENT BIRD OF PREY, WILDEMONT CROUCHED ON THE EDGE OF THE BAY…
For the first time since her marriage, Haila felt her happiness ebb. In fact, from the moment she'd set foot on Rock Island, a terrible feeling of foreboding had overcome her.
But it was only the beginning, for Haila had yet to meet David's family...his politely cold parents; his steely-eyed brother, Jack; his feline sister-in-law, Lenore; his anger filled sister, Gillian. She could sense violence and hatred in everyone.
Then the nightmares began…and she lived in terror that all of her doubts and fears would become reality…
For the first time since her marriage, Haila felt her happiness ebb. In fact, from the moment she'd set foot on Rock Island, a terrible feeling of foreboding had overcome her.
But it was only the beginning, for Haila had yet to meet David's family...his politely cold parents; his steely-eyed brother, Jack; his feline sister-in-law, Lenore; his anger filled sister, Gillian. She could sense violence and hatred in everyone.
Then the nightmares began…and she lived in terror that all of her doubts and fears would become reality…
- GenresGothic
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published January 1, 1975
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February 24, 2015
I felt various ways about this book. It was quite disturbing much of the time, and it really made me think about life and the emotionally unstable.
Some of the characters are extremely unlikable, they tend to be either overly strong or overly weak, or just plain awful.
The story kicks off with Haila and David meeting at a party, within three weeks they are married. I liked the cute banter between Haila and David before they married.
David keeps an apartment in the city for short visits, but lives on Rock Island in a ugly mansion with his parents, and his brother and sister. Haila thinks they are merely going to visit his family, until she realizes she will have to live there.
The moment Haila steps onto the island, she gets a foreboding feeling. The island only has about 10-12 people living on it until the summer months, and it has thousands of empty and shuttered cottages during the winter months.
Haila tries to tell David that the emptiness of the island scares her, but David is proud of his home, and doesn't want to hear it.
There are constant arguments over the subject as Haila starts to nag nonstop about wanting to leave, about the dangerous feeling in the air, and about everything else.
Haila was right, of course, but she started getting on my nerves. She spent 75% of the book complaining about the island, the mansion, and David's family. David spent 99% of the book trying to sell her on the place where he grew up, and trying to hide his irritation with her.
It becomes clear that Haila should have looked into what she was signing on for, when she married a stranger.
David's sister is one of the emotionally unstable. She's unpleasant and seems pretty dependent on people. The older brother, Jack, he comes off as bitter and unkind at times. The parents are drunks who drink the entire book, that is when they weren't making snide comments towards one of their kids, who hates them.
The parents started their family when they were young, the mother must have had Jack when she was a teenager, and the father close to it. They believed in letting the kids fend for themselves, and they weren't at all loving.
As the story continues, you find that all the winter people have shut themselves away on the island to hide from real life. They are a negative bunch that do nothing but gripe.
Eventually, a lady-killer escapes from jail, and things get even more tense. Haila nags even harder to leave, David just laughs off her worries.
When all is said and done, the book ended on a somewhat predictable note for certain characters, while other characters were never mentioned again.
Some of the characters are extremely unlikable, they tend to be either overly strong or overly weak, or just plain awful.
The story kicks off with Haila and David meeting at a party, within three weeks they are married. I liked the cute banter between Haila and David before they married.
David keeps an apartment in the city for short visits, but lives on Rock Island in a ugly mansion with his parents, and his brother and sister. Haila thinks they are merely going to visit his family, until she realizes she will have to live there.
The moment Haila steps onto the island, she gets a foreboding feeling. The island only has about 10-12 people living on it until the summer months, and it has thousands of empty and shuttered cottages during the winter months.
Haila tries to tell David that the emptiness of the island scares her, but David is proud of his home, and doesn't want to hear it.
There are constant arguments over the subject as Haila starts to nag nonstop about wanting to leave, about the dangerous feeling in the air, and about everything else.
Haila was right, of course, but she started getting on my nerves. She spent 75% of the book complaining about the island, the mansion, and David's family. David spent 99% of the book trying to sell her on the place where he grew up, and trying to hide his irritation with her.
It becomes clear that Haila should have looked into what she was signing on for, when she married a stranger.
David's sister is one of the emotionally unstable. She's unpleasant and seems pretty dependent on people. The older brother, Jack, he comes off as bitter and unkind at times. The parents are drunks who drink the entire book, that is when they weren't making snide comments towards one of their kids, who hates them.
The parents started their family when they were young, the mother must have had Jack when she was a teenager, and the father close to it. They believed in letting the kids fend for themselves, and they weren't at all loving.
As the story continues, you find that all the winter people have shut themselves away on the island to hide from real life. They are a negative bunch that do nothing but gripe.
Eventually, a lady-killer escapes from jail, and things get even more tense. Haila nags even harder to leave, David just laughs off her worries.
When all is said and done, the book ended on a somewhat predictable note for certain characters, while other characters were never mentioned again.
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