Review: A Romantic Ghost Story!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 2, 2013
A GHOST story! This was fun, mysterious, and a real page turner.Kelly has come to England to hide. She's just gotten through a nasty divorce from a fortune hunter and she wants to spend time with her friends, Nancy and Tom. They are working to open a hotel in a huge manor house they are leasing. To help distract Kelly from her heartache, they ask her to prove that the legendary ghost of the house is real. Or not, as the case may be. They also think the owner of the house might be a good diversion. Richard is quite pretty.Kelly is skeptical about the reality of ghosts and works to prove that John Tarrant (the gorgeous man in the mirror) is an actor, and a perpetrator of the hoax. She's pretty sure her friends are in on it, because having a ghost, real or otherwise, would make their hotel a raging success. They admit that it would give their hotel a certain cachet and tell her to do her best.John is quite sexy and Kelly tries to forget about that as she goes about proving him false.One of the devices in this book is that we, the reader, get to read the journal kept by John's cousin and heir (Edward), written over a century ago. Reading his words gave me shivers. What a horrible person...and nuts, too. And his descendant isn't quite all there either.There is a lot of sexual content in this one, and considering John is locked in a mirror, that was interesting.Richard, the current Viscount and John's descendant, enjoys his sexual partners young, very young, and those scenes were hard to read, so be aware. I could have used just a bit less detail on Richard's conquests.Ms. Brassel certainly takes us on an adventure as Kelly works out how to free John. Can it be done? And if so, how can this end up with an HEA? Quite the journey with some great side characters and a lovely setting. I'd love to spend a few nights in this hotel.This was a FOUR BOOKMARK for me.I loved that the end gave me ENOUGH information. That will make sense when you read it...!This review may also be found at:Beyond the Squee: Book Reviews[...]