MJ’s Comments (group member since Dec 23, 2014)

MJ’s comments from the What's the Name of That Book??? group.

I’m working thru these list, thanks

Thanks :)

Thanks, I’ll check them out. :)

Skyward. A man writing for a teenage girl.


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Double Trouble

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

So I was just writing up another thread looking for real world paranormal books and somehow remembered I’m also interested in conscious houses.

Don’t mind if these ones are real world-ish or flat out fantasy, and while I would like the conscious house to be a fairly large part of the story, I understand the odds are against that.

To me, a conscious house is one that is, to a small or large degree, aware of what’s going on inside it and the people. It may or may not change as needed or become moody when unhappy. It could actively protect itself and occupants and belongings or be less aware.

Think...
- A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness: the house adds rooms when visitors are coming, stacks chairs and slams doors when unhappy, protects family items until needed.
- even Harry Potters, Hogwarts: the room of requirement
- another book (Blackmoon maybe?): occupants can go from a to b, but an unescorted guest found themselves walking endless hallways because the house hadn’t decided or been told they were allowed access yet.
- Traci Harding’s Ancient Future series: has a lair or three that’s part of the other world and grows as needed. A hall of close doors will reveal enormous rooms or even forest where there simply isn’t space for them.
- another witchy one had a house that would get into bad guys heads and convince them they were running in circles or the room was compressing in to crush them. One lot of robbers came screaming out hours later and ran to the police to confess so they would protect them from the house, and another bad guy was convinced to confess to the murder they committed or the house would crush them.
- Berkley Street by Ron Ripley has a haunted house, and in this case it’s the ghost that manipulate (and clean) the house, but doors that’s can’t possibly reach from a to x, do. And other doors show up and disappear at will etc.

I think Stephen King has a book/movie (the rose?) about a house that’s never stops building itself and changes and traps people. I remember loving that movie, but I’m less interested in flat out scary horror now days if possible. Spooky’s is fine and some scares too, but something going straight for screams and gore is probably not what I’m looking for.


Thanks heaps

Not sure exactly how to explain what I’m looking for, but I seem to be in the mood for real world paranormal rather than urban fantasy or everyone’s supernatural (even tho I do love those stories too ;).

I guess (anything, but) along the lines of a psychic helping out cops or a character being a witch without of the flash and sparkle hexing. Maybe tarot reader or clairvoyant who has an ‘everyday life’ and isn’t sitting under a neon ‘see your future here’ sign.

Haunted house and/or the ‘actual’ psychic (someone who knows they are psychic in some form and has agreed to deal with the problem) or the ‘accidental’ psychic (someone who’s walked into the house and is now having to come to terms with the fact they are actually in a haunted house and somehow can interact with the situation) who’s having to deal with something that is not the norm for the world around them and not something they could explain to the cops if things go wrong.

Even something like vampire/s or weres, as long as it’s not based in fantasy...?

Let’s see, I like these, but I’m looking for something for more real world than the below.

- Trueblood: just goes straight into supernatural
- GuildHunter or Psy Changeling series by Nalini Singh: they are real world... in their own real world, so rules and things are different straight up.
- I’ll try and think of more

The book that set me on this interest is Berkley Street by Ron Ripley. The MC was a child when the family moved into a haunted house and the ghosts started harassing him, and no one believed. As an adult, he has to try and sort things out with the house that has its own ideas. Again, everyday life where ghost and haunted houses are for the movies and crazies, but it is his reality.

Thanks :)

Wakefield series

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

YAPRN: Relentless series.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

No worries. A little more detail in your header next time might be good... I almost skipped this one.

Enjoy. I just reread this one again, and still enjoy it.

Haunting of a Duke?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

h is a rumoured, but unacknowledged, psychic and H’s mother wants answers about the H’s dead psycho wife. H thinks h is a scam artist and is wondering if he should throw her out. Enlists his bff to keep an eye on her. Then weird things start happening and they start protecting her from possible danger...

Following

Not it probably, but there’s a chance it’s a republish or something like that. I don’t remember anything ‘saying’ the story (like pre mobile phones etc), but it could have been updated.

Blind Attraction
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

I read a recent (?) book where girl was raised on a female compound by her mother because the mother was raped by the father and TERRIFIED of men. At 18 ish, the girl headed for the city. Ended up finding her paternal grandparents AND her father who were all supposed to be dead, per mum. There’s a story with the father, but the main story I think was her and a rocker?

Relentless, Karen Lynch. First book and a bit is like that. PRN

Archangel Down series... love it!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

There’s another one I can’t remember atm. I think there was another thread asking for these types of books a few months ago, so if you have a hunt for it, you might find some other suggestions too.

No worries 😉

I’m on the app and it’s from the dinosaur age and has none of the good stuff :/

I haven’t read this one so I’m not sure on details, but I did read Christmas at the Castle, which is a few books into the series. Brief appearance and mentions of the bachelor prince and his wife who he chose from the crew of the reality show instead of the cast a few books earlier.


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

The Mind Eye was the last ‘male author’ I struggled with.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...