| Category: | Humorous American Literature |
|---|---|
| Author: | Brian Rouff |
| Publisher: | Huntington Press |
| Publication Date: | August 25, 2017 |
| Number of Pages: | 324 |
| ISBN-10: | 1944877061 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1944877064 |
| ASIN: | B0755BJ836 |
The House Always Wins:
A Vegas Ghost Story by Brian Rouff follows Anna Christiansen, a small-town
girl who works for the Scandia Gazette
and whose life is about to be changed in ways she never could have imagined
when she falls for the person she is interviewing, a bass player in a promising
band. It is not long before she finds herself moving to Las Vegas, getting
married, and pregnant. She moves into a house haunted by the ghost of a racketeer
in Sin City. An unscrupulous casino owner sends her a letter stating that he
will be buying all the properties on the street for a parking lot. Anna is not
willing and ready to let go of the house, and in a town where corruption is
rank and rife and where people result to murder to get their way, does she
stand a chance at keeping the house she has become so fond of?
Brian Rouff's setting in Las Vegas is fully and vividly drawn and he writes
about locales in a way that makes them alive in the minds of readers. A
wonderful meld of mystery, coming-of-age, and ghost tale, this gripping tale
features complex characters and a robust plot, with unexpected twists. Told in
the first-person-narrative voice, The
House Always Wins grips readers instantly, thanks to the strongly
articulated worldview and the author's storytelling skills. The beauty in prose
and the author's ability to write focused scenes help to build the tension and
the pulse of this captivating tale. The use of the epistolary and streams of
consciousness add depth to characterization and conflict development. Overall,
this is a hard-to-put-down novel with characters that are believable, even to
those readers who don't believe in ghosts.
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