To the neighbors, they’re sweet old ladies. To Tim Robertson, they’re his worst nightmareFrom the Queen of Scream comes a novel that will raise the hair on the back of your neck.Not every grandmotherly type bakes cookies.What’s more frightening than finding out that the kindly old ladies living across the street from you are anything but?As a child, Tim Robertson is selling cookies with his best … but?
As a child, Tim Robertson is selling cookies with his best friend Damien when they knock on the door of the house across the street from him. Two old ladies open the door and Tim never sees his best friend again.
Twenty years later, Tim has tried to move on and forget what happened back then. He is married, has a son, and just bought the house of his dreams in small town Cocoa Beach. When the house across the street from them is sold, they are all looking forward to getting new neighbors, until Tim realizes the old ladies are back to haunt him and the rest of the town.
To Hell in a Handbasket is Willow Rose, when she is at her most horrifying. Every page of this book is oozing with dread, and this novel stands shoulder to shoulder with the very best of Koontz and King. Anyone who has read a Willow Rose book knows it’s harder to put the book down than to just finish it.
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Fantastic cover and most fitting title ‘To Hell in a Handbasket’.
The title describes Tim’s life experiencing literally unbelievable, frightening happenings caused by 2 little old grannies with a blue Cadillac. Or is he losing his mind? The storyline has these 2 seemingly sweet grannies doing unthinkable scary things. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough to see what could possibly happen next. The really twisted ending left me stunned. But, wait it’s not over, another twist! This is a great read.
This book was very entertaining with a surprising end. Loved the caracters Tim and Diamen. The two old ladies freaked me out.
This is the first time I have read this author though I have heard a lot about her in the past. The characters are interesting for the most part but do seem a little juvenile even after they grow up or the grown-ups seem just vindictive. The story itself is a good one but does not really give a lot of information as to what happened or who everyone truly is. I do have to say that I have never liked short chapters which just means more chapters.
When Tim Robertson was a child he and his best friend Damien were selling cookies in the neighborhood to make money for a field trip. After a not that great day, they decide to try one last house before a storm hits. They go to the house across the street from Tim where two old ladies live who drive a blue ’57 Cadillac which is parked out front. When Damien goes in to collect the money for the cookies, he never comes back out and while Tim starts to head home he is struck by lightning for the first time.
Twenty years later and Tim is still trying to come to terms with what happened to his friend all those years ago. He has married and had a son, whom he named after that lost friend. But because life is never truly kind or fair the house across the street is sold and the new owners appear to be the same old ladies from his childhood. When his life starts to spiral out of control he knows who to blame. But blame and revenge have a way of backfiring.
It was supposed to be scary I assume but maybe I am too jaded to be so easily frightened. I hope that as I read more from this author tings get scarier. But I am sure it will affect others more viscerally. Enjoy and wait for it…
Willow Rose’s books are always original, unlike any others. This book was an easy read and I could hardly wait to see what would happen next and how it would end!
Anything I’ve read by Willow has been fantastic. Read her please
This was a great book!
Cover:
Gorgeous – is what caught my eye.
Editing/Proofing:
Decent in some ways, negligent in others. There weren’t a lot of spelling/grammar mistakes and it flowed easily in that regard but there were continuity issues and things that were never explained, so could use a strong content editor.
Character development:
Lacking. A good base for many of them but, the author didn’t bother to develop them very far.
Overall:
This had me coming back for more, wanting explanations. The author is definitely onto something here. The explanations never came though, so ultimately the book is full of plotholes, sadly. There were instances, scenes that prompted real feels, but were not very well developed. The novel has a good concept, but just comes up short in many areas.
Definitely if the author put more care into her work and hired a strong content editor, this could be gold. I’d be open to reading more from the author, if I saw more signs of effort.
3 stars.
**It should be noted that 20% of this book is bonus material. That does make me question the author’s integrity but my review is solely based on the content of the novel itself.
This book was kind of stupid. There were times where I though an 8 year old was writing it. I didn’t mind the gory details though. That actually livened the book up a bit. I read the whole thing in a day with some skimming.