Gina Ruth S. (Shadygrove) - reviewed on 5/27/2011 + 11 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

Have to say that this one didn't come up to my expectations. It's one of those that make me wish there was a rating between 2 stars ("do not like it") and 3 ("like it"). I settled and gave it a 3, because it did keep me interested enough to keep reading and finish it.

The author certainly is not without talent -- description is quite evocative, narrative flows smoothly enough, some characters emerge enough to be interesting at least (and I thought the two dogs were well-presented!). But somehow I didn't get quite a grasp on many of the characters, including the main one.

As a "ghost story", it did have some passingly spooky moments, but to me the problem with the book is that everything never really comes together, the story seems disjointed with ends trailing out here and everywhere, which is too bad, because there was lots of potential. I felt the book did pick up near the end but even so the ending, and indeed the whole shebang, just was not exactly satisfying to me.

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