Robert Meyerson

This was a spooky, page turning read!

I thought the setting of the storyline being in Asheville, North Carolina was cool as I have been there about three times in my life. The area is filled with antique stores against the back drop of the Blue Ridge Mountains. There are lots of crafts, festivals and events to do there, so reading about a ghost story set in that town was really neat.

A small backstory:

Brenda Wallach inherits an antique store in Asheville, North Carolina from her uncle who she was not even close to, but since he didn't have any other relatives she was the lucky one. Brenda and her husband, Gary decide to leave New York and go check out the antique store to see what it will all entail, but what they find is more than they bargained for as the store is filled with all kinds of junk that her uncle hoarded for years.

They start cleaning the place so they can open the store to start selling antiques to the towns people, but they are not there long when they start hearing things. A child's laughter, whispers on the wind, footsteps, and they end up meeting a strange old man by the name of Lester Finley who tells them that he knew Brenda's uncle very well.

The house starts really coming alive when Brenda and Gary come across a Ouija Board. They decide to use it to find out what kind of spirits are haunting the store. When they open up that portal is when everything hits the fan and the house wakes up to the point of dark entities coming through from the other side!

Brenda against the wishes of her husband goes on a hunt for the truth of what or who is haunting the store. When Gary has to leave to go to New York on business, Brenda is left alone at the store to handle everything and the spirits come alive preying on Brenda's sanity.

Who or what is haunting the antique store? Does Brenda find the answers she is seeking? What happens to Brenda and Gary during this haunting? No spoilers here as you will just have to read the book!

The book became more atmospheric once the story got past the Ouija board incident with a portal opening. At that point in the story, the book took off for me as I couldn't put it down!

I kept wanting to find out what would happen next. The first part of the book was real slow and there was just something off kilter about the way the book felt at first. It is hard to explain, but it could have been me not being hooked right away. I wasn't feeling the atmosphere of the book till the 30% mark when the ghosts made an appearance. I really am giving this book 3.5 stars, but I am rounding it up to 4 stars for keeping me awake for the majority of reading the book.

Recommend to anyone who loves ghost stories mixed with a Ouija board.… (mehr)