The Good House

By: Tananarive Due

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins

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)

On your toes read

The story is well written. Keeps you on your toes. The reader very good. Thoroughly enjoyed this book.

Fantastic job of narration

Story was engaging but having the timeline jumping around so much was a bit annoying. Sometimes her wordiness was a bit much. I often felt myself thinking, "oh, just Get on with it."

Overall it was an enjoyable story. The narrator did a fantastic job with all the different voices and accents. Will be looking for other books that she has narrated.

If You Like Haunted Houses...

Tananarive is one of my most favorite authors! This is the first book I read of her which has led me to read them all! The story will take you along for the ride of your life. Well written and full of suspense!

Very interesting...

I enjoyed this listen... the style and plot kept my attention throughout the entire story. An interesting presentation of the alternate conclusion!

Move over Stephen!!!!!!

Absolutely Spectacular!

Where has this narrator been and along with that, the author. As you can tell, this was my first book by either and I will be looking for more. I am so glad I had the privilege to listen to this. Thanks!

Due is a master at what she writes. I normally do not do horror, but this was the best read that I have heard in a long while. Definitely kept me on my toes. Look forward to more by her.

It was a long read but was broken down very nicely and could pick right back up the next time you picked it up.

This audiobook was provided by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review courtesy of AudiobookBoom dot com.

The Good House wasn't good, IT WAS GREAT!!!

This book was awesome!!!! Robin Miles did a wonderful job of narrating. This book kept my interest and in fact, I would get to work and sit in the car til the chapter was finished before going into work. I hung on every spoken word of this book. The story line was incredible! The characters....I don't want to start saying too much, cause I will go on and on and give the story away! You have to listen to this book! It's long, but it goes by so fast!!!!!

Bad ass narrator and spectacular story!!

Robin Miles is ridiculously talented so far as narrators go. I want to say that there were more than a dozen characters and she managed to give each a distinct flavor and energy. Robin Miles reminds us all that narrating is a legitimate art form and it really can make or break an audiobook. I wish that Toni Morrison would use her talent instead of (badly) reading her own audio books.

Now, on to the actual story! This author has become an instant favorite. This is my first time experiencing a work of horror. I love horror movies and am rarely scared but there were moments in this work though that gave me chills. As a lover of the Vodoun spiritual practice I've got to say that I didn't roll my eyes even once at the portrayal. It's image in this work is quite beautiful in my opinion.

Tananarive thank you so much for sharing your talent with the world!!

Very entertaining and GREAT performance!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book - it captured my attention and interest immediately and Robin Miles is unbelievably talented in her performance! Highly recommend!

great book

loved it kept me on the edge. still think of the characters. try it on audible

great listen, great narration but

I loved the story. it kept my interest. The narrator did a mostly great job, especially with accents. I found the voices of the "white people" were ridiculously exaggerated "Leave it to Beaver" type voices. This took away from the story as literally no one talks like that. But even more annoying was the sound of her swallowing or licking her lips at the end of each sentence. I couldn't handle listening through headphones for this reason. Nothing worse than "mouth noises".