Category: Book review

The story of the most terrifying case of demonic possession in the United States. It became the basis for the hit film “The Haunting in Connecticut” starring Virginia Madsen. Shortly after moving into their new home, the Snedeker family is assaulted by a sinister presence that preys one-by-one on their family. Exhausting all other resources, they call up the world-renowned demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren—who have never encountered a case as frightening as this.

Here we are again talking about another book coming from Ed and Lorraine Warren. I gotta say that this book was much better than the previous book from the Warrens I’ve read. But it to be classify as good it has a long way to go.

I gotta admit that I never been a fan of the Warrens since I always thought that they were just scammers, and trying to make bucks telling the world lies. 

This book is pretty much a horror book rather than a nonfiction book. Because it doesn’t give us any evidence or proof that the things talked about in this book actually happened. So this book as the rest of the Warrens’s book are just a very word of mouth books. 

If you expect to hear a lot from the Warrens in this book, then you will get very surprised. Because 70% of this book is just a retellings of cases. And the Warrens only jump into the picture in the last 30% of this book. Which is really weird since this book is about their cases but we get almost nothing from them.

All the Warrens do in this book, is go into the house, say some prayers and then leave. Which is not great to admit to that in your own book. That you basically didn’t do anything to help those people if this case is real and not made up to sell this book. 

The writing style in this book is well, not the greatest. Sure it is easy and simple to understand. And it makes the entire book quick and fun in a way to read. But at the same time its just way too simple. 

The writing style feels like a writing style straight out of “Goosebumps” books which is of course meant for children. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5

Jack and Janet Smurl and their family have been victims of abuse – both mental and physical – by inhuman entities that threaten their sanity, and even their lives. Over several years, the Smurls together with numerous other people – neighbours, police, priests, researchers – have witnessed scores of supernatural events at the family house: the ripping out of ceiling fixtures, the levitation and beating of the family dog, Janet’s strangling by unseen hands, the repeated appearance of a black hooded figure – and more. And they can’t escape – the demon even follows them when they leave their house.

To be very honest here my thoughts are all over the place when it comes to this book because I don’t believe in the things in this book is talking about and I treated it like a spooky story you tell over a fire place. 

The beginning of this book was actually pretty good but as you continue to read the book it quickly turns into a big mess and it becomes all over the place. 

I don’t know if it is just me but this entire book is written as a fiction book rather than a nonfiction book of haunting / possessions which allegedly happened in real life. Which really didn’t help me to like this book a lot more.

The writing style in this book wasn’t the greatest I’ve seen in the Ed and Lorraine Warren’s books. If you want me to be really honest I feel like the writing style in this book is the weakest than in any other book written by the Warrens.

This book has some few scary moments here and there, but most of the allegedly ghost / demon / whatever moments which happened in this book doesn’t have any evidence shown and more or less seem like just a tall tale told by someone who wants to cash in on book deals, interviews, movie deals etc.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

Ghosts know no season, respect no boundaries, and offer no mercy. Ed and Lorraine Warren, the world’s most famous and respected demonologists, have devoted decades to exploring, authenticating, and conclusively documenting countless cases of otherworldly phenomena. From the grounds of the United States military academy at West Point, New York to the backwoods of Tennessee, Ghost Hunters chronicles their first-hand confrontations with the unknown, the unholy, and the unspeakable.

So this is another book about Ed and Lorraine Warren’s cases. And I gotta say that I’m not a big fan of their books but they have some pretty decent good stories.

This book discuss 10 different cases from the Ed and Lorraine Warren’s case file. And I gotta say that they were too short to really get into them and enjoy them. I would say that this book would have been better if it focused on one case rather than 10 cases. Because each case gets like 20 – 30 pages which isn’t a lot to get into them. So you only get a brief introduction to these case rather than taking the deep dive which I wanted to do in this book.

This book doesn’t give you a lot of information about each of the 10 cases in this book which really disappointed me because I wanted to learn more about those cases so its why I purchased and read this book. And this book leads you to do more research about each of the cases because it doesn’t give you that much about them. 

In my opinion this book was all over the place because each case in this book would get very little time and the chapters in this book were short. 

The writing style in this book isn’t the greatest but it is at least much better than in some other books by the Warrens. And because of this I gave this book some extra points for solely this aspect.

At the same time this book isn’t a really a book but rather a collection of case briefs and quotes from the Warrens which in the long run wasn’t that interesting at least not for me personally. Which explains the low rating I gave this book.

I Give This Book 2 / 5