The following review is for 18+ readers.
Belle Abbott is pathologically shy and because of this, she’s living a nightmare due to the fact that she’s also a national treasure hounded by the media. James Bennett is known the world over as the perfect catch, handsome, wealthy and the owner of an intimidating castle on a Cornish Cliff, Chy An Als Point. Belle and James meet and in one night, they fall in love. The problem is, Belle’s dating James’s brother.As quickly as they fall together, Belle and James are torn apart. Not long after, circumstances throw them back into each other’s lives and they find they were right that first romantic night, they were meant to be. Even if their families want them together, James’s brother Miles does not. Dogged by a rabid media who are fascinated by their love triangle, as well as Belle’s hidden demons, James and Belle find they have yet another problem to solve. The Point is haunted by the ghosts of two children murdered in the castle. Their murderer will stop at nothing to keep their souls tethered to The Point instead of letting them live eternity with their mother and father. Belle is determined to find her courage and help them and she enlists her loopy mother, loopier grandmother, James’s even loopier ex-girlfriend and the dubious (but talented) team of rock ‘n' roll witch Cassandra McNabb and Scottish ghost-hunter-extraordinaire Angus McPherson to help the children find their way back home.
Review
Belle is a
beautiful person, who is a little scarred by past events in her life.
She finally jumps
back in the dating game after a few years only to realise that she has jumped
into it with the wrong person, Miles. Things get more complicated when she meets
Miles's brother Jack, and they have an instantaneous magical connection. This
first meeting does not end well for anyone; misunderstandings, bitterness, hurt
feelings and rejection ensue.
What we don't know is
how this pair are going to get back together, how they will avoid the mortal
danger they find themselves in and how they will right a 200 year old wrong.
This is number five
in Kristen Ashley’s Ghost and Reincarnation series, so when you start this book
you have to know you have to leave your skepticism at the first page. You are
about to escape into a romance book that is really more like a modern day fairy
tale, with "wee ghosties", evil spirits, curses, witches and souls
reincarnated and attached to present day characters.
Our main characters of
the story, Belle and Jack, are worthwhile characters, I thoroughly enjoyed
every minute with them and watching them fight there feelings and fall in love,
no matter what hurdles were thrown there way.
Ashley is known for
her amazing heroes and they are usually of the “alpha” variety, but I have to
say Jack was the perfect balance of strong man, gentleman and protector.
Belle was one of
those “beautiful soul” type characters with a lovely presence, so often a
heroine can let a romance down for me, but not in this case. Belle was very
special and I felt and instant connection to her character. I was very glad to
see the return of some already seen characters in this series and the
introduction of some interesting new ones. I hope to see them again if there
happens to be more of this set written.
As I always find in
her books, Ashley’s secondary characters are amazing and her books just
wouldn’t be the same if she didn’t make them as solid and real as her primary
ones.
The plotline was
great, and as always I felt totally absorbed in the story, it was a real escape
from my own life. Whether this was to do magical fairy tale qualities of the
book I don’t know, I just know I enjoyed it. The many twists and turns in the
book surprised me and I was guessing what was going to happen right up to the
end.
If you are not
normally a lover of the paranormal when reading romance I would ask you to try
not let that turn you away from this book. I suggest giving it a try because it
is written in such a way that you are more focused on the romance and the
characters than being bogged down with paranormal jargon.
It is quite simply a
wonderful romance novel, very sweet, very enjoyable.
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