• The Good House

  • By: Tananarive Due
  • Narrated by: Robin Miles
  • Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (4,836 ratings)

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The Good House

By: Tananarive Due
Narrated by: Robin Miles
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Editorial reviews

A suspenseful must-listen, The Good House is about a haunted house originally owned by Angela Touissant's Haitian grandmother, Marie Touissaint. Angela tries to uncover the source of the evil plaguing the area and in the process discovers her own mystical powers. Read with great range by Robin Miles, it's a frightening experience that will keep you listening with the lights on.

Traveling back and forth in time, the listener is sucked up into every moment as the story reaches its thrilling climax. Miles captures and makes the most of each moment of terror and suspense like a guide who tells you only as much as you need to know. She also shows great skill as her voice switches from male to female, elderly Haitian woman to small-town Sheriff.

Overall, a story that would make any person squirm, but so engrossing you just can't help but listen.

Publisher's summary

Tananarive Due, author of The Living Blood won the American Book Award and is praised as Stephen King's equal by Publishers Weekly. In The Good House, Due sets a story of ancient powers and modern retribution in a small Pacific Northwest town. When a young woman returns to her grandmother's empty mansion, she is pitted against demonic forces that have poisoned her family for generations.
©2003 Tananarive Due (P)2004 Recorded Books, LLC

Critic reviews

"Due handles the potentially unwieldy elements of her novel with confidence, cross-cutting smoothly from past to present, introducing revelatory facts that alter the interpretation of earlier scenes and interjecting powerfully orchestrated moments of supernatural horror that sustain the tale's momentum....[Due is] a writer who grows better with each book." (Publishers Weekly)

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    5 out of 5 stars

Surprise for me!

Surprised me and pleased me! Great read! Takes you through the story from the past to the present with great skill and planing, but not so much as to slow down the action. This writer has it together! Keeps you guessing!

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    4 out of 5 stars

Worth the effort

I enjoyed the book a great deal but agree that at times it was a bit drawn out and the ending was abrupt especially after 21+ hours of listening. That said, the story was interesting and the narration was extremely well done. All-in-all it is certainly worth listening to.

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  • Overall
    2 out of 5 stars

Abrupt ending

Some background first: My basis for downloading this book was partly from the positive reviews, my taste for thought provoking "horror", and willing to apply my free read to a costly book.
With that stated, I thought the book was too expensive (at least for those that have to pay the list price) for the dissapointing ending. I agree with some of the other reviewers that it was a bit lenghthy and found at times there was not the need for some of the uncaptivating verbose writing style.
One the positive note, the storyline was a bit unique and kept me interested enough to finish the 21 hours worth. The narrator also did a good job at reading through the marathon. I fear that if it was not for her enticing voice variation, that I would have passed out from listening exhaustion.
Lesson learned: Don't pick one of the most expensive books to download just because it was free from a promotional offer.

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  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars

Wonderful listen!

I loved listening to this book. When it was over, I was satisfied with the story, but I still wanted to hear more either of the characters or in the same style.

While there are several flashbacks, they are well labeled and easy to place in the history of the story. The characters were very believable and well fleshed out. The reader did an excellent job with reading the characters, too. I liked it so much that when my husband started reading parts of the hardcover, I was correcting his pronunciation of the names!

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  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars

The Good House: a Good book

This book has good characters and a great plot line, but seems a little long. This is a good candidate for an abridged version, you know, for someone who doesn't want to have to read through all 24 hours.

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  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars

The Good House

This was an excellent read/listen. It was exciting and intriguing from the start. It is refreshing to listen to material by African American authors. As a result I am seeking other books by this writer. She is worthy of her comparison to Stephen King.

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  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars

Very solid audio book

I didn't totally know what to make of this title when I first started listening. However, as I got into the book I was pleasantly surprised to find the story captivating and the narration very good. Not exactly as engrossing as some of the better Stephen King novels (to which this has been compared) but very good!

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  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars

Awesome

This is the first book I have "read" of this author, and I was captivated from minute one. The entire story was awesome, and I would read it again in a heart beat. A MUST READ for all who enjoy a supernatural read.

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This is a great story!

Pros: The complexities of the story make it hard to put down and left me wanting more at the end.
Con: Some of Angela's decision and inner monologs were very...non-melanated.

Overall, I loved it and will listen to it again.

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  • 01-12-24

waiting for this to become a movie!

Loved the storyline! Worthy of movie billing. If not big screen, definitely a Lifetime show! It really picked up speed halfway through.

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