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Three "Haunted Haven" Spooks!
Lighthouse Mystery!
A taste of what lies within:
Penny has decided to leave her family and friends behind to take a job out at a lighthouse on a remote island as she doesn't want just a regular job. So against her parents and best friend wishes she takes a boat out to the island as she finds out there are a couple of other people out there as well.
Once she arrives, Matthew who has been out on the island for years shows her around and introduces her to Colin who also helps take care of the lighthouse. Matthew ends up telling Penny a ghost story about something that happened on the island years before and Penny ends up believing in the ghost story as she has been seeing ghosts before she even left for her adventure on the island.
Though as time goes on Penny does hear things but Matthew and Colin seem oblivious to the sounds that Penny is hearing and they are both in denial about the ghosts. They haven't actually seen anything of the sort on the island and Matthew tells Penny that the story is just a story - there is no truth in it. But Penny begs to differ as she starts seeing "things" and tries to prove her point that she is not crazy!
Thoughts:
This could have easily been a four to five star read, but I knocked it down to three stars as the story was a major slow burn and nothing with ghost/hauntings happened till near the 60% mark with two major twists at the end of the book. There are quite a few different things that also dragged down the book - the characters just did nothing for me at all including the main character Penny - I could not get invested in the characters at all and Penny just seemed to be a shallow cardboard cutout. The character, Matthew drove me nutso as he "talked" too much and Penny could never get a word in edge wise. The character, Colin just seemed to float along and though he was in the story the book didn't focus on him much.
Some other things didn't set well with me which was dialogue - lots of words didn't need to be in there and some words didn't make sense either. There was too much talk and not enough haunting till the very end of the book.
Some books by this author are hit and miss as sometimes her books will shine and sometimes they will just drop off. This to me was one of the "drop off" books and if I hadn't been reading it with a few buddies on Goodreads I would have probably laid it down as a dreaded "dnf" as normally if the book isn't grabbing me by a certain percentage then it will go on the dnf shelf.
But with it being Amy Cross I just struggled through it as I thought maybe something would happen to make up for all slow burning-odd characters-screw wacky dialogue and though it did end with some twists there were still some unanswered questions. So the only lights to leave on is in the lighthouse - don't worry about the light by your bed or cozy chair as there is nothing scary in this book!
Attached is the author, Amy Cross, profile page from Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5344482.Amy_Cross
Attached is the author, Amy Cross, profile page from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Cross/e/B006DE8I6U
Attached is my review from Goodreads:
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