Review: Four Stars
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 10, 2014
Ridley House is a relaxed pace novel with a storyline centered on a young woman who is eternally cursed to search for her home, her family, and her lost love with nothing to go on but nightmares and two pieces of jewelry to remind her. For seventy-five years, the reader is told she wanders from place to place, job to job – never knowing what she is searching for until she takes a summer job at Ridley House and the mystery of her past unfolds. The book starts out eerily what with her sense of déjà vu staring at the wall of deceased family members, her encounter with the elderly caretaker who warns her to leave, and just the description of the old house itself. The character of Kay comes across as odd, what with her antiquated slang – swell, bread, shindig, etc- which gives the reader a sense that this young woman is a throwback to years gone by, which she is.Except for a few instances of profanity, there isn’t any material a reader would find offensive.  I enjoyed this book and would recommend it.