![]() ![]() Sarah and her autistic brother, five-year-old Sammy, have never seen their mother's supposedly-haunted ancestral home Anne was estranged from Ida, and she plans to sell Amber House and everything in it. The book begins at the funeral of Sarah's maternal grandmother, Ida. Critics have remained in disagreement over what genre Amber House best fits into Kirkus Reviews dubbed it "horror romance," and Booklist cited the story's "Gothic feel," while Publishers Weekly claimed the story "straddles the lines between magical realism, fantasy, ghost stories, and horror, with a touch of romance and classic glamour." The authors categorize the book (and its sequels) as "a time travel series." Plot summary Īmber House is a young adult paranormal mystery novel. The book follows narrator Sarah Parsons, who discovers she has the psychic ability of psychometry, enabling her to see into her own history as she stays at her family's ancestral estate outside of Annapolis, Maryland. Amber House is the first book in what was initially dubbed the Amber House Trilogy by American author Kelly Moore and her daughters Tucker Reed and Larkin Reed. ![]()
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