I wasted sooo much time reading this horrible horror story to the last page thinking the ending would certainly be the redemption of the whole sorry story line. Well, it wasn't!!!! I HATED the ending. Some parts of it made me wonder if the author enjoyed tormenting younger children and torturing helpless animals when he was a child. These scenes were sickening because I love little children and animals so much. I realize this was a horror tale but it was still needless to make people feel sick.  Also, so much of the book was boring repetition about the boys going back and forth,time and again,to that old hotel but THEN, there was the weird and twisted parts thrown in through-out the narrative. Too twisted for my taste, anyway. I guess a lot people loved it according to the reviews unless the good ones were mostly written by family and friends. Maybe the author's other books are better.
I wasted sooo much time reading this horrible horror story to the last page thinking the ending would certainly be the redemption of the whole sorry story line. Well, it wasn't!!!! I HATED the ending. Some parts of it made me wonder if the author enjoyed tormenting younger children and torturing helpless animals when he was a child. These scenes were sickening because I love little children and animals so much. I realize this was a horror tale but it was still needless to make people feel sick. Also, so much of the book was boring repetition about the boys going back and forth,time and again,to that old hotel but THEN, there was the weird and twisted parts thrown in through-out the narrative. Too twisted for my taste, anyway. I guess a lot people loved it according to the reviews unless the good ones were mostly written by family and friends. Maybe the author's other books are better.