Review: Will have to read more of this series
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 1, 2014
Billabong Ghost Billabong Ghost by Ryn Shell is the first book in the Dreaming Billabong series.  This short story is set in the Australian outback at the end of World War II.  It focuses on the Fife family who run a cattle farm about a day’s travel from Sydney.The Billabong Ghost is Charlotte, a mixed race girl who was killed during the Fife Springs Massacre in retaliation for something that happened with her family.  She haunts the cattle king, her former lover, as well as his grandson and anyone else who seeks her out.  Shell goes back and forth between present time and Charlotte’s time to give a clear picture of everything that is happening and why it’s happening.The story is well written and thoroughly engaging.  While set in familiar Australian settings during the post-World War II era, the use of Charlotte’s ghost as a main character gives the book a hint of fantasy that I really like.  I will definitely need to read more of the series.