Review: BEAUTIFUL romance & wee-ghosties - LOVED IT !
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 1, 2013
From the beginning this is an eerie tale - plenty of mystery to keep me reading to try and find out what is what, who is who, and when it'll all hit the fan.James Bennett (Jack) has to be one of my all time favorite Kristen Ashley alpha-males (Motorcycle Man is still 'it' for me though!).  Once he lays eyes on Belle Abbott - our beautiful, shy, quiet, and distrustful, heroine - it's over for him.  She is his......period.  Although......I did wonder about those three months after their initial meeting and what transpired......WHY didn't he go after Belle and was he just giving her time?  It took Belle's mother and grandmother to get James Bennett back into Belle's life.  He then becomes the driven man who forces his way back into Belle's life.  Love that part.  Belle for her part was so skittish which considering her prior marriage was very understandable.The romance itself unfurled slowly, and surely.  There is plenty going on in the family home (Chy An Als Point - a castle on a Cornish Cliff).  Two children (the wee ghosties) have been there for over two hundred years - and they need to be freed.  They're good ghosts but the reason they're trapped, having died as children - that is the evil part.  Belle becomes aware of the ghosts and manages to work through her fear to develop a certain caring about them that snowballs into quite the family affair to help the ghosts move on.  It also turns out that there is a bond that links both Jack (James) and Belle to the children - and they are the key to helping the children.  At one point the 'evil one' manages to hurt Belle and darned if that part didn't make this reader shed more than a tear.  Kristen Ashley is so sensitive in writing what her character is going through; both good and bad.What a family Belle has.  Nutty, to say the least!  Belle's father is really something - loved his character.  James for his part has a kind mother who only wants her sons to get along.......and they don't.  Miles (James brother) is quite the character, and he is scary.  Gave me the creeps at times.We also get Angus and Cassandra (ghost hunter and witch) who we also had in book one (PENMORT CASTLE).  Angus also calls in two members of his scottish family - who have 'special' talents' for drawing out and retaining ghosts.  I'm wondering about Lachlan McPherson (Angus nephew) and if we'll see him in an additional book of this series.......??  Ayyyyy.....he strikes me as quite the brawny lusty man........This was not a dull book by any measure.  Things may settle down for mere moments, only to be scattered about once again - that is how this story unfurls.  Thank you dear authoress for another fine story and a series I'll read again, and again........NOTE: For ten days now I've dedicated much of my free time to reading this series of five books - this being the last/final in the series.  Looks like I've finally gotten to the ROCK CHICK SERIES.  That said.......I'm bummed because I want more of this series!  Perhaps down the road.......