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Reviewed by Tiffany Davis for Readers' Favorite
Ana and the House Are One by Fred L. Taulbee Jr. is a fictional story about five women that reunite at the reading of their deceased grandmother's will. All living totally different lives, they all have a power of some sort which they attribute to their grandmother. Ana, Tiffany, Chelsea, Beth and Elaine are planning to have a séance as requested during the reading of the will. The girls seem reluctant, but take part in the séance because each stands to inherit an equal part of their grandmother's estate. During the séance, the spirit of their grandmother returns and they begin to ask questions regarding her disappearance. This is the part of the novel that had me on the edge of my seat because the spirit announced that she had been killed by one of the girls participating in the séance, and that her body was buried in the cellar of the house.
Fred L. Taulbee Jr. did a great job with the storyline because it draws the reader in from the very beginning, reading about all of the girls and their different personalities, and trying to figure out which one actually killed the grandmother. At this point in the story, everyone begins to suspect one another and this is when the intensity of the story really takes off. One by one, terrible things start to happen to each of the girls, until finally one is left as the guilty party that had plotted to kill their grandmother. She is tried by the state and acquitted, but she began to realize that not all her visions were true... She wondered if they were variations of the other girls' powers that had somehow been given to her throughout all of the chaos that had occurred.
