Review: enjoyable
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 12, 2012
The Ghost Hunter started off well. Crumpled and jet lagged Ashley arrived in England to inherit a decrepit inn from he aunt and find some answers about her father's disappearance. Life gets complicated after that.I generally liked Ashley. She had had a hard life and was finally trying to accept herself as is. I can appreciate that. She had an irritating habit of chatting even when endangered though. I wanted to scream at her,"Come on shut up and hide already, or run, or fight, or something, just shut up!" Not that what she often said wasn't of relevance, but who stands around and chats when a demon is breathing down their neck? She was witty though. She pulled some amusing one liners that I couldn't help enjoying.Christian and his Scottish burr were sexy as they were supposed to be and I liked him too. You have to appreciate a man who tries so hard to do the right thing. But while I get that he was surprised to find himself attracted to Ashley, I honestly think he made the discovery that he loved her 15 times. Blimey! There were a lot of 'oh how he loved her,' 'did she want him as much as he wanted her,' why couldn't he get her off his mind,' etc (or lines of the sort). It did get a little repetitive and a lot of the book was dedicated to it.Blimey, describes the language in this book perfectly. There were a lot of them, 'bloody hells,' shite/arse and other such classic Englishisms (I know that isn't really a word, but you know what I mean.) , as well as phonetic speech. While this did give the characters character it was really distracting. I mean I had to read the line 'Yer da' numerous times before I figured out it meant your dad. It took me a while to remember that 'ken' could mean know, so that the line 'ye ken' meant you know. Then again "Jaysus, Mary and Joseph" left no question of whether John spoke with an Irish brogue or not. It just sounds right. I guess it is just a think line between some and too much.All-in-all I liked the book well enough to get the second one. It made me laugh and I liked Devon, so what to know what happens to him.