Ghosts of Harvard
Ratings5
Average rating3.7
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Ratings5
Average rating3.7
Cadence Archer arrives on Harvard's campus searching for answers about her brother, a schizophrenic genius who leapt from his dorm room window the year before. Eric's brilliance overshadowed Cady growing up, but she worshipped and adored him--even as he became more unstable, retreating deeper into his secretive work on multidimensional spacetime and isolating himself from everyone around him. Losing Eric has left a black hole in Cady's life, and while her choice to walk the same path threatens to break her family apart, she is driven to know whyEric killed himself. As Cady struggles under the enormous pressure that comes with being at Harvard, she begins to investigate her brother's life on campus. What was it that caused Eric to spiral into an irretrievable madness--the paranoia, the delusions, the illusory enemies--after he had been doing so well? Soon, her prying turns up clues that grow increasingly sinister. And then, as her suspicions mount, Cady begins to hear voices herself- three ghosts that walked the hallowed halls of Harvard, each from a different era of American history. That's when the panic sets in. Does she share Eric's illness, or are these voices real? And if she listens to these ghosts, will they lead to her brother--and the truth--or will they lead her down a path of her own destruction?
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This went in a direction I expected and also a direction I didn't expect. I figured out one of the bad guys right away. There were other bad guys though and some people aren't as bad as I thought they were. So these characters really changed and grew throughout the book. That was a positive. The ghosts weren't quite what I expected, but I'm okay with that.
There is a big negative and a small negative though. The big negative that was distracting was the eating parts of the book. I think the authors mentioned a different restaurant for every meal Cady ate and there were a lot of meals! That took me out of the story because I would think how crazy it is that she tried another new to her place and I would also struggle to ‘see' the area. The small negative was the last chapter and the epilogue. I get why they were important, but I think it would have been better with one of them and not both of them. Those are really just a couple small things that took me out of the story. Overall it was a really great story of family and grief with a little supernatural and a little thriller thrown in.
