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Average rating3.8
"In 1920s England, a young woman of limited means and even less experience confronts the ghost of a mysterious serving maid.... Sarah Piper's lonely threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis--rich, handsome, scarred by World War I, and obsessed by ghosts--has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed suicide. Maddy hated men in life, and she will not speak to them in death. But Sarah is unprepared to go alone into a haunted barn looking for the truth. She's even less prepared for the arrival of Alistair's associate, rough, unsettling Matthew Ryder, also a veteran of the trenches, whose scars go deeper than Sarah can reach. Soon, Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle. For Maddy's ghost is no hoax--she's real, she's angry, and she has powers that defy all reason. Can Sarah and Matthew discover who Maddy was, where she came from, and what is driving her desire for vengeance...before she destroys them all?"--
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Decent horror story, but predictable. It was a fun way to pass the time but not a book I would openly recommend.
I fell in love with Sarah and Matthew. The author did an amazing job of writing characters that are haunted by life events. Each character dealt with their demons differently and that brought a lot of reality to the book. I particularly loved that Matthew was not perfect or even preferred by most. The resolution. was not simply am answer to the mystery. It fit in with the haunted nature of each character. The setting of 1920s England was perfect. I really enjoyed the novel.
It wasn't perfect though. It started slow and had me wondering if I would really finish it. Then Matthew showed up and it got much better. There was more romance than I expected. At first I didn't like it, but that grew on me too.i
I did listen to it on audiobook. It is quite possible that the British accent of the narrator made me a little biased.