Review: Liked most of it
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2014
First the good-the great, even. Paul Squire, our ghost. Paul was a Victorian era gentleman and painter who was in love with a girl, a very long time ago. I don't want to give anything away, but things didn't end well. Since his death, he's been hanging out in his house, scaring away all of his distant relatives in turn as they inherit the house.Enter Jennifer Barrett, his latest heir. She loves the house, moves in, gets two big dogs and makes herself at home. The curmudgeonly Paul find one excuse after another not to chase her away, one of the reasons being that Jennifer is the spitting image of his lost love. He decides he likes her and reveals himself to her.This get complicated when Jennifer has to juggle her relationship with Paul with hiding his presence from her friends Sue, Sue's boyfriend Brent, and a down the road neighbor, Russ. I was fine up to that point. Sue was a bit of a ditz, but some people are, so that's okay. Her boyfriend Brent was a good looking creep who's hitting on Jennifer and Russ is mooning after Sue. Paul realizes he's in love with Jennifer and figures he isn't her best option for a mate and drives her away. And what did she do? She went, for Brent. I couldn't understand this at all. Paul had been able to touch her. Even pulled her off up the rocks when she slipped and nearly went down a cliff. He could make himself appear to people whenever he wanted to. I was astounded at his capacity for being Only Mostly Dead. I bet they could have found an open minded clergyman to marry them if they'd wanted to. So there was that, Jennifer's sudden change of personality.Then there was this. Paul spoke the way that a Victorian era gentleman would speak, that was great. But Jennifer's speech was just plain stilted. It came to me somewhere in the middle that her speech sounded the way you might sound in a written letter rather than actual speech.As a ghost story, it was pretty good. As a love story, it could've been a lot better.