The Thin Wall

A Novel

De: E.M. Parker

Narrado por: Anna Castiglioni

Corona Heights is more than an apartment building. Some believe it is haunted. Others feel it is cursed. None have been willing to confront the terrible secret hidden within its walls. Until now.

Fiona Graves is the building's newest resident. She has given no thought to the darkness of its past. She only wants a place to call home while she begins to rebuild her life. But it will not be that simple. Life in Corona Heights rarely is.

There is something buried inside the walls of her apartment; a secret so horrific, so terrifying, that no one has dared speak of its existence. No one except for Olivia Shelby, the 10-year-old girl who lives next door. Fearing for her life, Olivia is desperate to confront the horrors of Corona Heights, and she has chosen Fiona to help her.

Faced with deadly supernatural forces far beyond their understanding, Fiona and Olivia must reveal the frightening truth of what Corona Heights really is, and the darkness that has, up until now, been safely contained within its walls.

But the pair will quickly discover that Corona Heights is good at keeping its secrets, and it will not surrender them without a fight.

Vol. I of the Corona Heights Anthology

©2017 E.M. Parker (P)2017 E.M. Parker, John Hardy bell

When Ghosts and Humans Meet

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

It is a very captivating story in which human dramas intermingle and fuse with those of ghosts that cannot rest. The plot is very well defined and the reality of the situation in which the inhabitants of a hunted apartment building have to deal with, gives the entire book a suspenseful development of the complex storyline. For a while I had a hard time deciding if the voice coming from the other side of the thin wall was in fact that of a real person or the voice of a ghost. Very intriguing indeed... There are several personal dramas developing throughout the story and not all of them with a happy ending, but such is life...
The performance was superb and the different voices given to the multitude of characters made for a very enjoyable listening experience. This book seems to be the first chapter of a series so the main character is the building itself whose ghosts seem to be trapped there forever. Looking forward to the next chapter and so will you after you listen to this audiobook.

A haunted apartment building

Having uprooted her life from Washington to Denver in the hopes of getting custody of her son, Fiona settles into the Corona Heights apartment complex and finds herself in a creepy building in E.M. Parker’s The Thin Wall. After having been arrested for drunk driving with her son in the car, Fiona’s life hit rock bottom, forcing her to face her alcoholism and other issues. But the apartment keeps drawing Fiona’s attention. Her next door neighbors, Natalie and Noah, get in screaming matches in between their loud metal music that drives her crazy, while Fiona has conversations with Olivia, Natalie’s 10-year-old daughter, through the very thin wall separating their bedrooms. Then the janitor who lives down the hall turns up dead, apparently of suicide, but with some questionable features.

This book is filled with intrigue and creepy details. I kept asking myself whether the strange events were real, with a natural explanation, or supernatural. The details sometimes made me shiver.

Anna Castiglioni performs the audio version of this book. I really appreciated the way she had tears in her voice when characters were crying and almost made me cry. She has a unique voice and empathizes with the characters in her narration. She helped to bring me more deeply into the story.

The Thin Wall does a lot to keep the readers drawn to the story in this book. The character of Fiona comes across as a very real woman dealing with the challenges of life and determined to turn over a new leaf. I don’t usually like creepy books, and this wouldn’t be my first choice of listening material, but I was pulled into this book, almost against my will. I give it four stars.

Disclaimer: I received this book for free from the narrator, but that in no way affected my review of it.

Creepy but slow

It took me awhile to get into this book. It has enough going on that I kept listening but I did lose interest at times and skip to the next chapter. The narration was good, though, not my favorite. I received a review copy at my request and voluntarily reviewed.

Enjoyed it

Any additional comments?

I love a good horror audiobook and I enjoyed this one.

So very well written and I enjoyed the way the narrator read the book.

Very entertaining.

* I received a review copy at my request and voluntarily reviewed.*

Entertaining Listen

This book has kept me entertained during some very long and tedious commutes. The characters are fun and there are some satisfying twists along the way. The story is suspenseful and there is some violence, but I appreciated that it wasn't too gory or graphic. Looking forward to the next installments.