Review: A modern gothic thriller
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 31, 2013
For those that enjoy a good old fashioned Gothic thriller, this contains all the elements: a sensitive heroine prone to waves of crippling hysteria born of some past trauma; the aging and demented family matriarch who lives in what is more putrid dungeon than hospital for the elderly where the nurses and orderlies are oddly secretive; a dark and shadowy intruder who may be a hallucination or an all too real and physical danger; the handsome and forbidden stranger who, nevertheless our heroine finds herself drawn to in the absence of her work-obsessed husband -- this book effectively weaves hysteria, ghosts, haunted houses, and buried secrets. Containing all the elements of the genre, albeit in a contemporary setting, we must consider the nature of hauntings, and whether they have more to do with memories and hurt than spooky apparitions, and which poses more of a real threat to us physically and mentally? Truly enjoyed the read.