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Haunted Things
Recommended 17+ due to strong language, violence, and drug use.
Ash never thought she'd be living in a haunted house. She just wanted to get through her senior year. But when her father uproots them, their new house is the site of the infamous Moss murders ten years ago. Ash meets Aaron, the only surviving Moss son, and sparks ignite. She's drawn to him and his darkness like nothing she's ever felt before. But things are not as they seem, and Ash doesn't know who to trust. Maybe history isn't so dead after all.
This book is episode one of a serial, and is approx. 20,000 words.
Ash never thought she'd be living in a haunted house. She just wanted to get through her senior year. But when her father uproots them, their new house is the site of the infamous Moss murders ten years ago. Ash meets Aaron, the only surviving Moss son, and sparks ignite. She's drawn to him and his darkness like nothing she's ever felt before. But things are not as they seem, and Ash doesn't know who to trust. Maybe history isn't so dead after all.
This book is episode one of a serial, and is approx. 20,000 words.
67 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 5, 2014
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June 24, 2015
Rating: 3.5/5
Pretty good ghost story. It was a bit predictable but was still really entertaining.
Haunted Things is the first part of the Dust to Ashes serial. In this story, Ash moves to a haunted house, the place where the Moss family murders took place. She soon learns that ten years ago all the members of the Moss family but one were killed by the oldest son of the family, who ran away never to seen again. The only surviving member was the youngest son, Aaron, who she soon finds lurking around her house. Ash decides to befriend him, while in the mean time struggling to get through high school and learning the truth about what happened ten years ago.
This is a great match for people that like ghost stories. There are a lot of creepy moments, living in a murder house is never dull. Also there is the whole mystery behind Aaron and his family, which for me it was a bit predictable. Then there are the school bullies and Ash's new weird school friend, who seems highly disturbed. All these elements are put together nicely to bring this story to life. There are a lot more things that need answers and I am looking forward to reading the next installment.
Pretty good ghost story. It was a bit predictable but was still really entertaining.
Haunted Things is the first part of the Dust to Ashes serial. In this story, Ash moves to a haunted house, the place where the Moss family murders took place. She soon learns that ten years ago all the members of the Moss family but one were killed by the oldest son of the family, who ran away never to seen again. The only surviving member was the youngest son, Aaron, who she soon finds lurking around her house. Ash decides to befriend him, while in the mean time struggling to get through high school and learning the truth about what happened ten years ago.
This is a great match for people that like ghost stories. There are a lot of creepy moments, living in a murder house is never dull. Also there is the whole mystery behind Aaron and his family, which for me it was a bit predictable. Then there are the school bullies and Ash's new weird school friend, who seems highly disturbed. All these elements are put together nicely to bring this story to life. There are a lot more things that need answers and I am looking forward to reading the next installment.
April 4, 2014
This would be a perfect "dark and stormy night" read. Ash moved into the most infamous house in town. Everyone knows what happened in it, and people would love to get in and see the house. Or, maybe play some pranks. But, the more Ash explores, the more she learns. And sometimes, legends aren't all what they seem to be...
Bring on part 2!
Bring on part 2!
June 3, 2024
Ash and her Dad have moved from Indiana to Illinois.
Their new home is a detached Victorian where an entire family died a decade ago.
Local legend says it is haunted and, to be fair, it has changed hands many times since the killings.
Ash isn't too concerned at first, she's got to face bullying in her new school.
The sole survivor of the Mass family massacre, Aaron, now 18, drops by unexpectedly and an unlikely friendship ensues.
The bullying escalates but Ash thinks she has found a way to make it stop once and for all. She'd better be right!
Luckily she has made one friend at school, the nerdy Oliver.
He's obsessed with murder and particularly with those at her house.
With that kind of friend you really don't need enemies.
“Haunted Things” is quite short and is described as the first in a series. But, ten years later it still stands alone.
2.5 Stars, raised to 3 Stars.
Their new home is a detached Victorian where an entire family died a decade ago.
Local legend says it is haunted and, to be fair, it has changed hands many times since the killings.
Ash isn't too concerned at first, she's got to face bullying in her new school.
The sole survivor of the Mass family massacre, Aaron, now 18, drops by unexpectedly and an unlikely friendship ensues.
The bullying escalates but Ash thinks she has found a way to make it stop once and for all. She'd better be right!
Luckily she has made one friend at school, the nerdy Oliver.
He's obsessed with murder and particularly with those at her house.
With that kind of friend you really don't need enemies.
“Haunted Things” is quite short and is described as the first in a series. But, ten years later it still stands alone.
2.5 Stars, raised to 3 Stars.
September 24, 2014
A girl and her father move to a new town and into a new home. A lavender Victorian home, supposedly haunted by the atrocious mass murder of the Moss family by the eldest son, Seth, who disappeared mysteriously.
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In Abigail Boyd's Haunted Things, Ash and her father leave Indiana for a Illinois and take up residence in the Moss house despite the horror that took place within those walls, which Ash doesn't know about until she learns about it from her new classmates. Ash has a haunted (recent) past of her own with the death of her mother and her strained relationship with her father. While settling into her new home, Ash sees a mysterious boy about her age hanging around the house.
She learns that this is Aaron, the sole Moss survivor, and she is rather predictably drawn to him and his mysterious nature. When Ash's classmates decided to play a ghostly prank on her in her house, Aaron comes to her rescue and stirs up fear of the unhuman in her tormentors, who then target another high school outcast, Oliver. Oliver befriends Ash and fills her in on lots of details on the Moss murders. But Ash has a weird feeling about Oliver and his fascination with brutal death, particularly the ones that involve where she sleeps, and an interesting twist of events occurs to leave the reader ready for the next installment.
The story concept of a need to clarify the events and truth of a crime and ghostly affection reminded me of Meg Cabot's Mediator series. It was easy to predict what would happen as it followed a familiar, somewhat formulaic series of events. That familiarity of a formula is a double-edged sword: readers can easily immerse themselves into the story, but it also has the distinct possibility of feeling contrived. With that in mind, I still enjoyed the elements of the story that were built upon the frame of the established concept. Ash seems a bit like the "I'm not like other girls" outsider, which is something I'm not overly keen about--since, you know, it pits girls against each other when there are plenty of other forces pitted against girls--but she didn't continually force that notion down your throat, not to mention that it does fit within the story. It was a really quick read as the story was placed over a short span of time and the writing wasn't too flowery or abstract.
To read this, and other book reviews, visit my website:http://jenpaul13.wix.com/makinggoodst....
In Abigail Boyd's Haunted Things, Ash and her father leave Indiana for a Illinois and take up residence in the Moss house despite the horror that took place within those walls, which Ash doesn't know about until she learns about it from her new classmates. Ash has a haunted (recent) past of her own with the death of her mother and her strained relationship with her father. While settling into her new home, Ash sees a mysterious boy about her age hanging around the house.
She learns that this is Aaron, the sole Moss survivor, and she is rather predictably drawn to him and his mysterious nature. When Ash's classmates decided to play a ghostly prank on her in her house, Aaron comes to her rescue and stirs up fear of the unhuman in her tormentors, who then target another high school outcast, Oliver. Oliver befriends Ash and fills her in on lots of details on the Moss murders. But Ash has a weird feeling about Oliver and his fascination with brutal death, particularly the ones that involve where she sleeps, and an interesting twist of events occurs to leave the reader ready for the next installment.
The story concept of a need to clarify the events and truth of a crime and ghostly affection reminded me of Meg Cabot's Mediator series. It was easy to predict what would happen as it followed a familiar, somewhat formulaic series of events. That familiarity of a formula is a double-edged sword: readers can easily immerse themselves into the story, but it also has the distinct possibility of feeling contrived. With that in mind, I still enjoyed the elements of the story that were built upon the frame of the established concept. Ash seems a bit like the "I'm not like other girls" outsider, which is something I'm not overly keen about--since, you know, it pits girls against each other when there are plenty of other forces pitted against girls--but she didn't continually force that notion down your throat, not to mention that it does fit within the story. It was a really quick read as the story was placed over a short span of time and the writing wasn't too flowery or abstract.
June 8, 2015
The description of this book had me wanting to get my hands on it. Haunted house where a murdered occurred that just screams of wanting to be read. So I dived into the book pretty quickly and it was hard to put down. You have this teenager named Ash who has lost her mother a year ago and she has felt guilty of it ever since. She moved to a new town and into an old house that is named the Moss house. It is where the Moss family lived and died many many years ago. Now Ash didn't know this until she went to school and heard about it from her classmates, which enticed Ash to look up the information. What has been told is that Seth Moss killed his family and disappeared no one knows where he has gone. Then she meets Aaron who hangs around her house, shows up out of no where and disappears just as well. Aaron is a mysterious character and it makes the reader wonder who is he exactly?
Now when Ash is in the cross hairs of the school bullies another kid who has been on their radar before named Oliver introduces himself and he lets Ask know he is a fan of mass murderers. How crazy and creepy is that? He is very infatuated with Ash's new house and where the murders occurred and when the twist happens with Oliver it is like what! There are also answers that I am hoping come out in the next part of the story because I felt some things were left hanging and I don't mean the ending.
The characters are okay I didn't truly connect with any of them but Aaron being as he is this mysterious thing of a person and his story is one I am wanting more answers to. I don't want to give anything away on this as it will give away one part of the story line. The plot was pretty cool and had me wanting to keep reading to find out what is going on in the Moss house.
I think the author could have done without the f word a couple of times and I know this isn't a big deal but for it to go so far without it and then all of a sudden be used it was kind of one of those that I think another word could have been used instead.
If you are looking for a short story that you can read in one setting, deals with ghosts, has a mystery surrounding those involved then I say get this book.
Now when Ash is in the cross hairs of the school bullies another kid who has been on their radar before named Oliver introduces himself and he lets Ask know he is a fan of mass murderers. How crazy and creepy is that? He is very infatuated with Ash's new house and where the murders occurred and when the twist happens with Oliver it is like what! There are also answers that I am hoping come out in the next part of the story because I felt some things were left hanging and I don't mean the ending.
The characters are okay I didn't truly connect with any of them but Aaron being as he is this mysterious thing of a person and his story is one I am wanting more answers to. I don't want to give anything away on this as it will give away one part of the story line. The plot was pretty cool and had me wanting to keep reading to find out what is going on in the Moss house.
I think the author could have done without the f word a couple of times and I know this isn't a big deal but for it to go so far without it and then all of a sudden be used it was kind of one of those that I think another word could have been used instead.
If you are looking for a short story that you can read in one setting, deals with ghosts, has a mystery surrounding those involved then I say get this book.
August 15, 2017
First, I should explain that this book is a serial (I had no idea what that was until I did research). In the awesome olden days of literature, books were published in pieces, which were called serials. Today, we don't really see serials unless it is in a short story magazine or now in the Indie scene. What's great about serials is that they are like TV shows in literary form. There are cons of it too, but really, I like the concept.
HAUNTED THINGS by Abigail Boyd is the first in a serial series about a girl who just moved to a new town. She learns the dark history of her house, a Lavendar Victorian (WANT!), and meets a young man with ties to the house. It is one of those "good for rainy days" reads. There's mystery, ghosts, and the reader is instantly grabbed.
I would have finished this book last night, but my husband forced me to bed. Which is a good thing because our son likes to get up early. Anyways, this is a quick read. The writing pulls the reader in instantly, there isn't any needless blah, and I was geniuinely freaking out when the main character was. I love reading ghost stories for that reason.
It's a seriously awesome serial (haha). If you want a quick read that pulls you in, Abigail Boyd is the one for you. Besides, she wrote one of my first Indie novel series reads, GRAVITY. Which is also awesome, in case you wanted to know. One thing is for sure, I am anticipating a great experience in the upcoming episodes of this serial!
HAUNTED THINGS by Abigail Boyd is the first in a serial series about a girl who just moved to a new town. She learns the dark history of her house, a Lavendar Victorian (WANT!), and meets a young man with ties to the house. It is one of those "good for rainy days" reads. There's mystery, ghosts, and the reader is instantly grabbed.
I would have finished this book last night, but my husband forced me to bed. Which is a good thing because our son likes to get up early. Anyways, this is a quick read. The writing pulls the reader in instantly, there isn't any needless blah, and I was geniuinely freaking out when the main character was. I love reading ghost stories for that reason.
It's a seriously awesome serial (haha). If you want a quick read that pulls you in, Abigail Boyd is the one for you. Besides, she wrote one of my first Indie novel series reads, GRAVITY. Which is also awesome, in case you wanted to know. One thing is for sure, I am anticipating a great experience in the upcoming episodes of this serial!
August 13, 2014
This book was a solid okay. There were chapters that had me on the edge of my set and others that had me predicting what was going on long before the reveal. All in all, I think what bothered me the most is that it wasn't that long a book to begin with and it ended in an odd place that wasn't an ending, but more a set up for the next book. It really bothers me when a book does that because I think a book should be able to stand on it's own, and the sequels and trilogies simply continue in the character's lives. Maybe I'll read the sequel? I'm not really sure. It depends on if I get a good deal on it or not.
July 19, 2014
This was a really good, somewhat creepy, book. It held my attention from the first page to the last. By creepy, I mean the subject matter of murder and hauntings.
The book is very well written. I'm really looking forward to reading the next episode, especially with the cliffhanger from episode one.
The book is very well written. I'm really looking forward to reading the next episode, especially with the cliffhanger from episode one.
October 28, 2014
As usual, Boyd really delivers on the creepy atmosphere. The characters are a little bit predictable, but written in such a way as to still make you care about their feelings, and what will happen to them next!
June 26, 2014
I enjoyed this book a lot...Ash and Seth are great characters and the story draws you in. Was written well with an easy flow that makes the book a quick read. The cliff hanger left me looking forward to the next book.
April 12, 2014
I can't find the right words to decide this book , all I can think of is AMAZING!
August 19, 2015
Such a great book and well didn't see that coming. Can't wait for the next one. If you like yourself some creepy then this is cool.
April 25, 2016
Great spooky story!
May 29, 2015
Great read
This book will grab you so you have to keep reading it. Cannot wait for more books from this author.
This book will grab you so you have to keep reading it. Cannot wait for more books from this author.
June 15, 2015
review to come
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