The Little Stranger follows the strange adventures of Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline-its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life? Little does Dr. Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his.I had high hopes for this book after Stephen King named it one of the best books of 2009. I love a good ghost story and this book had been compared to The Haunting of Hill House, which in my opinion is one of the best haunted house books ever written. I started reading and soon found myself over 100 pages in and realized that nothing was happening and I was getting bored. That was a real problem for me with this book. Nothing seemed to happen and what did happen was told to the narrator. He never experienced anything. The book was well written and I did finish so it was not terrible but it was just to boring for me.
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