Better Homes and Hauntings in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Sep 11, 2022 Rachel-RN rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-2022

Nina is a struggling landscape architect (through no fault of her own). So when she gets an opportunity to potentially turn her business around, she jumps at the chance. Only possible problems? The home is haunted, requires a boat ride to get there (she gets seasick), and she has to live on site for a few months while the project is underway.
It took some time to get Nina's full story and for the first part of the book, she was meek and not very confident in herself. I thought the secondary char ...more

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Nov 26, 2013 Regina rated it liked it

Shelves: listened-to-audio-only, funny-stuff, audio-also-listened-to, have-in-audio, favorite-authors, narration-is-great, paranormal-pnr, ghost, romance

Molly Harper does light-hearted, sweet and cute like no other author. Better Homes and Hauntings is funny, sweet and cute. Just what I would expect from Molly Harper. The setting is one of my favorites -- isolated island, sequestered group of individuals who become close friends, the group works together to build something new and there is interesting spooky history mystery related conflict -- I love this set up.

Better Homes and Hauntings delivers three fun female characters and two interesting ...more

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Aug 08, 2019 Diane ~Firefly~ rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ghost, paranormal, kindle

Creepy old haunted house on an isolated island getting updated...

What I enjoyed:
* I really liked the friendship between Nina, Cindy and Dotty.
* The haunting was pretty creepy
* Slow start

What could have been better:
* The mystery was easily figured out
* Really convenient to get two couples out of 5 people staying on an island and really the romances didn't really work for me as they barely knew each other ...more

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Jun 03, 2014 Charisse rated it really liked it

I won this through Goodreads! (took me years to get a book!)

Better Homes & Hauntings is a bit of a departure from Molly Harper's usual writing. Yes, there's still some snarky, funny moments, and some romance as well, but the main focus is a ghost story - filled with creepy moments. The narration is different too - the books I've read previously by Molly Harper were all first person, but this is third person, Nina being the main lead but the other main characters all getting a few turns so you ex ...more

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Jan 02, 2014 Melissa rated it it was ok

Shelves: paranormal, got-bored, disappointment

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Wow.. I never thought i would read a Molly Harper book and think "That was really disappointing. I'm glad the thing ended and its a stand alone". Normally when I read one of her books i'm on the floor laughing. I did not laugh this time. Not once. In fact there was a lot of eye rolling instead.

Now the book except on the back made this book sound great. The back should read "Pinkie Pie finally crosses dimensions. Hits Nina, Deacon, Cindi, Jack, and Dottie with "instinct friendship arrows. Canda Wow.. I never thought i would read a Molly Harper book and think "That was really disappointing. I'm glad the thing ended and its a stand alone". Normally when I read one of her books i'm on the floor laughing. I did not laugh this time. Not once. In fact there was a lot of eye rolling instead.

Now the book except on the back made this book sound great. The back should read "Pinkie Pie finally crosses dimensions. Hits Nina, Deacon, Cindi, Jack, and Dottie with "instinct friendship arrows. Candace comes along and makes everyone loves everyone. And Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara has possessed Rick and Regina. They keep calling them blank flanks behind their back. All the while the mane six are thinking that that even that aren't that freakish friendly with each other. Friendship is Magic, but not that Magically". Seriously... Everyone loved everyone on sight. It was like the island they were on were some hippie commune. "Free Love For Everyone!"

The ghost story and mystery.. There was none. I knew within the first chapter that Jack killed Catherine not Gerald. And it was because if he couldn't have her than no-one would. Maybe I watch too much true crime documentaries, Bones, and Criminal Minds. The mystery/haunting was disappointing and dull.

Don't get me started on the individual characters. I spent nearly 5 hours finishing the book today and not one was a stand out. I had to look up half of their names to write this review. That's sad. What happened to the great characters from the Nice Girls series? I wanted to know more about those characters. They were developed. They had attractions to each other, but it was not a Barney land "I love you. You love me. Hey baby i think i want to marry you" attractions. Plus the characters in this book were all cookie cutters. All fit in a specific characterization and never once strayed. I was hoping for a vampire to walk in and finish off the lot.

2 stars. It was amazing i finished it, but i kept saying "it has to get better right?"..Wrong. ...more

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