House of Pain [Mass Market Paperback]

Sephera Giron (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: Leisure Books (August 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843949074
• ISBN-13: 978-0843949070
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,149,490 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sèphera Girón has over fifteen published books under various names. Her main love is horror and most of her work embraces themes of occult,metaphysical, erotica, and suspense. She has also penned several erotic astrology romance novels for Ravenous Romance loosely based on her experiences as a tarot reader/astrologist/paranormal investigator, and witch.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Really, really bad., March 26, 2003

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Sheila (Kenmore, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: House of Pain (Mass Market Paperback)

WARNING: CONTAINS PLOT SPOILERS.

This book looked great--I'm always up for an "evil house" book, cliched as they may be. However, as other reviewers here have pointed out, the cover image, plot summary, and even the title of this atrocity are misleading. The multiple grammatical and proofreading errors are annoying, but not nearly as dismal as the story itself. The plot ends with a cult, in an underground cave, summoning their goddess to receive her human sacrifices. The goddess has feathers and a beak...in my mind, a giant chicken. She sucks people's brains out of their heads, which apparently makes a popping noise and causes their skulls to deflate. Really. This sounds delightfully cheesy, but unfortunately it's not even laughable. Really, really painful.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not what it's cracked up to be, December 18, 2002

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S. Boisen "jasper243" (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: House of Pain (Mass Market Paperback)

Despite the eye catching cover photo and the info I received from the back cover I was real disappointed in this book. I came on amazon to read other reviews about it to see maybe it was just me that had a problem with it. But I was surprised to see a lot of negative things about it. I think this book had potential to be better. There was only one part that lasted about 2 chapters that really had my interest. The book was choppy and sometimes the flashbacks kind of got to be too much. I still give it one star, whether or not I could give 0. I only wish I could give 0 stars to those that I really hate and don't even finish. So the 1 star is for actually finishing it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What a waste, August 7, 2002

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Lucy "cereta" (Champaign, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: House of Pain (Mass Market Paperback)

Interesting if not terribly original idea badly executed.

Other people have commented on the larger issues of plot and characterization, so I'll settle for a pet peeve: the writer has NO ear for dialogue. In particular, she doesn't contract "to be" verbs in dialogue. Over and over she wrote things like, "If it is not too much trouble," or "I heard you are a witch." Who talks like that? It's a little thing, but it threw me out of the story every time. That's an amatuerish mistake, and it almost made me wonder if English isn't her first language. Even if that's the case, though, what editor was sleeping on the job?