Review: Great Read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 17, 2014
What a good read!  You know why?  One word:  Ghosts!  I love stories with ghosts in them, that is if the ghosts aren't bloody, murdering creatures out for mayhem and destruction.  I like an intelligent ghost story.  And this was truly an intelligent ghost story.Our main character, Kendra,  goes into a kind of  Asian art warehouse store, and a beautiful Korean doll in traditional costume catches her attention.  She's unique, once owned by the only Korean first lady to be assassinated.  Her husband's assassination followed.  Some history, right?After buying the doll and being  in her home for a day or so, she realizes the hair pick is missing.  A few days later, a shoe from the doll is missing, and the doll seems to have moved to another location.  She begins to have hallucinations(?) visions(?) dreams (?) where she seems to be a Korean woman from 16th century Korean named NanJu.  Nanju  looks like that doll!Meanwhile, the nice young man from the Art warehouse is completely enamored of her.So we have this lovely love story interwoven throughout the story of the ghost trying to tell her story through Kendra, so it's a story within a story.  Boy, did I make that seem complicated.  And it isn't, it is merely complex what with the intertwining threads.  The story(ies) is (are) simple to follow, and you get so caught up in what's going on and what's going to happen next that you keep turning pages even when you have to go make dinner or clean the house or walk the dog!I love a book where you can't wait to find out what happens  next.