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Four "Spooky Shadow" Stars!
Spooks and Shadows!
A taste of what lies within:
Maggie Olsen's world is turned upside down when she gets an urgent message from her sister, Arlene that she needs to come home as tragedy has struck the family and there has been a terrible accident. When Maggie finds out that her sister Brynn has passed away she is devastated so she hurries home for the funeral leaving her boyfriend behind in the middle of a hurricane, but storm or not she needs to get home to be with her family.
Once Maggie steps foot in the old homestead where her sister Arlene now lives things become almost surreal as Maggie remembers things that happened to her there along with Brynn and something that they did long ago when they were young which involves a cemetery, an old doll and a oujia board.
The more that Maggie is in the house the more she "thinks" she sees shadows and she has a feeling that something is watching her. Though Arlene doesn't believe in such things and thinks that Maggie is having mental issues because she is distraught over Brynn passing away. But what Arlene doesn't know is that Maggie has come home and the shadow that lurks in the house is ready to play.
Thoughts:
The story itself was creepy and chilling as the author weaved an atmosphere of spooky dread around the character Maggie. I thought the story was too "wordy" with lots of "play by play" detail of every little thing that happened to Maggie.
Also there are time jumps which I am not fond of as the author goes back and forth between the past and the present to tell the story of what happened to Maggie and Brynn when they were young with the cemetery, the doll and the ouija board, then it jumps forward to the present to what happened to Brynn and what Maggie has to deal with in the house with Arlene.
Attached is the author, Ania Ahlborn, profile page from Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4867939.Ania_Ahlborn
Attached is the author, Ania Ahlborn, profile page from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Ania-Ahlborn/e/B0053A0B1U
Attached is my review from Goodreads:
Good to see a woman in horror appreciated. From the reviews she is usually to Ketchum for me but I've been advise to try Seed.
ReplyDeleteI agree! I have a few more books by her on my kindle and yeah go try Seed! It was really good too! :)
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