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Title: An Strange Gothic Novel with an Ending that Leaves YOU Hanging and Unsatisfied!
Review: Bernard F. Conners' novel The Hampton Sisters (published in 1987 in hardcover by Donald I. Fine, Inc.) reminded me of Stanley Cohen's The Diana Game gone extremely Gothic.Two rich sisters, Emily and Lydia Morrow, beautiful look-a-likes, but extremely different: one evil, one good, night and day, residing together in a mansion-by-the-sea (in this case the Atlantic Ocean) adjacent to an extremely hostile no man's land known as the Sanctuary where spirits of the wronged-dead wait in limbo for revenge. This book had the atmosphere, but the abrupt, non-existing ending leaves readers hanging and very much unsatisfied. Read this book if you like novels having a creepy Gothic atmosphere, but steer clear of it if a complete plot with an satisfying ending is important to you.
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