House of Dark Shadows

The story starts with saying that thirty years previously, a woman was violently kidnapped.

A family is arrive in a town, looking for a home. It consists of a father, a mother, Xander (15), David (12), an Toria (9).

The father isn't being overly clear about why they have moved. They find a house and end up settling there, but they soon find there are teleportation portals in the house. There's also a link between the house and a school locker.

Someone seems to be in the house at night. Xander ends up in the past in the Colosseum and has to fight for his life. From there on things get worse as David ends up in a jungle and is nearly killed, and Toria sees the monster-man at her door.

The worst part comes when one family member's betrayal is revealed, though, forcing them to stay at the house to search for one of their number who was kidnapped.

The story is very good up to the very last part where it ends up failing a logic test. To explain this, I'll have to reveal the betrayal, so if you don't want to know what that was, you should stop reading.

Ten.

Nine.

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Seven.

Six.

Five.

Four.

Three.

Two.

One.

Last chance to turn back.

The father's betrayal causes the logic problem. He knew full well the dangers of the house, yet he brought his family there, apparently to look for his mother who had been the kidnapped woman.

Yet that means he knew about the house and its dangers, and exposed his family to them without need. Further, he knew there was some kind of huge dangerous man-thing, yet he brought no actual weapons.

Stupid.

He should have brought a number of weapons and plenty of ammunition, and made sure his wife knew how to use them. That way, when the monster-man appeared, which he did, he could have shot the guy, wounding him preferably, in order to get information out of him, or killing him if need be.

You don't willingly and knowingly go up against something that is incredibly dangerous without taking proper steps in preparation, and those steps in this case would definitely have included bringing firepower with him.

Since all the doorways seem to lead to hostile places, firepower would again be necessary if any rational exploring had to be done. This single error of logic causes me to wonder if I'll read any of the sequels.

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House of Dark Shadows

The story starts with saying that thirty years previously, a woman was violently kidnapped.

A family is arrive in a town, looking for a home. It consists of a father, a mother, Xander (15), David (12), an Toria (9).

The father isn't being overly clear about why they have moved. They find a house and end up settling there, but they soon find there are teleportation portals in the house. There's also a link between the house and a school locker.

Someone seems to be in the house at night. Xander ends up in the past in the Colosseum and has to fight for his life. From there on things get worse as David ends up in a jungle and is nearly killed, and Toria sees the monster-man at her door.

The worst part comes when one family member's betrayal is revealed, though, forcing them to stay at the house to search for one of their number who was kidnapped.

The story is very good up to the very last part where it ends up failing a logic test. To explain this, I'll have to reveal the betrayal, so if you don't want to know what that was, you should stop reading.

Ten.

Nine.

Eight.

Seven.

Six.

Five.

Four.

Three.

Two.

One.

Last chance to turn back.

The father's betrayal causes the logic problem. He knew full well the dangers of the house, yet he brought his family there, apparently to look for his mother who had been the kidnapped woman.

Yet that means he knew about the house and its dangers, and exposed his family to them without need. Further, he knew there was some kind of huge dangerous man-thing, yet he brought no actual weapons.

Stupid.

He should have brought a number of weapons and plenty of ammunition, and made sure his wife knew how to use them. That way, when the monster-man appeared, which he did, he could have shot the guy, wounding him preferably, in order to get information out of him, or killing him if need be.

You don't willingly and knowingly go up against something that is incredibly dangerous without taking proper steps in preparation, and those steps in this case would definitely have included bringing firepower with him.

Since all the doorways seem to lead to hostile places, firepower would again be necessary if any rational exploring had to be done. This single error of logic causes me to wonder if I'll read any of the sequels. Main Index Page

Since all the doorways seem to lead to hostile places, firepower would again be necessary if any rational exploring had to be done. This single error of logic causes me to wonder if I'll read any of the sequels.

Main Index Page