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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Okay, I like Jackson. She is always doing something different. She doesn't follow the herd. I loved the Goblins, what a howl. I wish that series hadn't ended. This time she is doing Gothic that is pure Goth. Take one heroine with a 'gift' of sight, and no idea what it means or how to control it, one really spooky graveyard, and one mean wicked granny, you have the makings of a super tale.
Choe has always feel different, alone, not normal, until she meets Rory Patrick. They shoot sparks off each other, but he doesn't really trust her too much. On the other hand, Rory is connect to her nightmares, so she is not too sure about him either. A murder happens (doesn't it generally in these sorts of stories) and naturally it points at Rory...so who do you trust?
Jackson delivers a delightfully spooky read, with a firm understanding of Gothic romances. Hope she does more in this style.
But couldn't we please have another Goblin, Ms. Jackson?
Choe has always feel different, alone, not normal, until she meets Rory Patrick. They shoot sparks off each other, but he doesn't really trust her too much. On the other hand, Rory is connect to her nightmares, so she is not too sure about him either. A murder happens (doesn't it generally in these sorts of stories) and naturally it points at Rory...so who do you trust?
Jackson delivers a delightfully spooky read, with a firm understanding of Gothic romances. Hope she does more in this style.
But couldn't we please have another Goblin, Ms. Jackson?
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
pure Gothic designed to please
21 Aug 2007
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Okay, I like Jackson. She is always doing something different. She doesn't follow the herd. I loved the Goblins, what a howl. I wish that series hadn't ended. This time she is doing Gothic that is pure Goth. Take one heroine with a 'gift' of sight, and no idea what it means or how to control it, one really spooky graveyard, and one mean wicked granny, you have the makings of a super tale.
Choe has always feel different, alone, not normal, until she meets Rory Patrick. They shoot sparks off each other, but he doesn't really trust her too much. On the other hand, Rory is connect to her nightmares, so she is not too sure about him either. A murder happens (doesn't it generally in these sorts of stories) and naturally it points at Rory...so who do you trust?
Jackson delivers a delightfully spooky read, with a firm understanding of Gothic romances. Hope she does more in this style.
But couldn't we please have another Goblin, Ms. Jackson?
Choe has always feel different, alone, not normal, until she meets Rory Patrick. They shoot sparks off each other, but he doesn't really trust her too much. On the other hand, Rory is connect to her nightmares, so she is not too sure about him either. A murder happens (doesn't it generally in these sorts of stories) and naturally it points at Rory...so who do you trust?
Jackson delivers a delightfully spooky read, with a firm understanding of Gothic romances. Hope she does more in this style.
But couldn't we please have another Goblin, Ms. Jackson?
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
A Unique Psychological Paranormal Thriller"
27 Nov 2007
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The year is 1998 and funerary art is the new chic, spurring a rise in graveyard robberies from New Orleans to Boston. Perhaps her upcoming assignment for Digital Memories had been the reason for Chloe Smith's horrific nightmare. Was the malevolent cemetery a vision of what was to come? Her grandmother, a mean spirited witch who had frightened Chloe since she was small, had always insisted that she had inherited "the sight".
Chloe's new assignment is to photograph the Patrick family cemetery at Riverview Plantation in Virginia. The photographs are to be entered into the national database in the event that theft should occur. Her first run in with the client's son Rory is less than genial. The client, MacGregor Patrick, however is charming if a bit obsessive about the family burial ground and his son's love life. He's determined to throw the two together.
The family cemetery holds no terrors for Chloe and she actually begins to enjoy her assignment. The monuments are a testament to old money and the finest art it could buy. Rory however would like to see the whole thing become taken over by the vegetation that would soon claim it if left untended. His father had not been the same since his mother had died. Rory views the old man's obsession as unhealthy. Still he assists Chloe when his own work at the reknowned Patrick Botanics allows. The attraction between them is undeniable.
The dreams begin anew when Rory's ne'er do well cousin Claude decides to pay the family a visit bringing along a friend who gives Chloe chills. Never before has she seen such malevolence in a man's eyes. She is sure she has looked into the face of evil and is stunned that no one else seems to notice. Thankfully the men are gone as abruptly as they had appeared.
All is well until she follows the family cat into the second graveyard - the unkempt, sad and uninviting slave burial ground that Chloe had been instinctively avoiding. A murder has been committed. Chloe has photographs that could help the police solve the case. It's clear that the Patricks are hiding something. Chloe must now decide whether to betray their trust and lose the affection of the two men she has come to love or listen to her heart. Can the truth and justice be two different things?
Wow, talk about a psychological paranormal thriller! Chloe's dilemma becomes one's own as the reader must decide whether or not she's done the right thing after all. -- Reviewed for PNR Reviews
Chloe's new assignment is to photograph the Patrick family cemetery at Riverview Plantation in Virginia. The photographs are to be entered into the national database in the event that theft should occur. Her first run in with the client's son Rory is less than genial. The client, MacGregor Patrick, however is charming if a bit obsessive about the family burial ground and his son's love life. He's determined to throw the two together.
The family cemetery holds no terrors for Chloe and she actually begins to enjoy her assignment. The monuments are a testament to old money and the finest art it could buy. Rory however would like to see the whole thing become taken over by the vegetation that would soon claim it if left untended. His father had not been the same since his mother had died. Rory views the old man's obsession as unhealthy. Still he assists Chloe when his own work at the reknowned Patrick Botanics allows. The attraction between them is undeniable.
The dreams begin anew when Rory's ne'er do well cousin Claude decides to pay the family a visit bringing along a friend who gives Chloe chills. Never before has she seen such malevolence in a man's eyes. She is sure she has looked into the face of evil and is stunned that no one else seems to notice. Thankfully the men are gone as abruptly as they had appeared.
All is well until she follows the family cat into the second graveyard - the unkempt, sad and uninviting slave burial ground that Chloe had been instinctively avoiding. A murder has been committed. Chloe has photographs that could help the police solve the case. It's clear that the Patricks are hiding something. Chloe must now decide whether to betray their trust and lose the affection of the two men she has come to love or listen to her heart. Can the truth and justice be two different things?
Wow, talk about a psychological paranormal thriller! Chloe's dilemma becomes one's own as the reader must decide whether or not she's done the right thing after all. -- Reviewed for PNR Reviews
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
thin, but fun for what it is
26 Jan 2008
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This isn't going to be much of a review: Thin, but something to read on a rainy day. Libraries, don't bother buying it for your collections; this isn't something people will be requesting by name in years to come.
Yes, it's atmospheric, but the plot is shakey. It's pretty easy to keep up with the main character and her love interest, but the rest of the cast of characters aren't drawn boldly enough to keep straight easily (if you're just breezing through this, as I was-- and this really IS the type of novel one breezes through). I did enjoy wallowing through cemeteries with the main character, and the photography element was an interesting touch, but when the plot's turning point is vegetation . . . ?
Yes, it's atmospheric, but the plot is shakey. It's pretty easy to keep up with the main character and her love interest, but the rest of the cast of characters aren't drawn boldly enough to keep straight easily (if you're just breezing through this, as I was-- and this really IS the type of novel one breezes through). I did enjoy wallowing through cemeteries with the main character, and the photography element was an interesting touch, but when the plot's turning point is vegetation . . . ?
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