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Unabridged, 4 CDs, 5 hours
Read by TBA
By turns thrilling, poignant, and haunting, this is a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage.
In Mosse's wisp of a new novel (after Sepulchre), Freddie Watson is a stilted young man who has not gotten over older brother George's disappearance on the Western Front during WWI. It is now 10 years since the Armistice, and Freddie, after a stay in a mental institution, has come to the French Pyrenees to find peace. While motoring through a snowstorm, he crashes his car and ends up in the small village of Nulle, where he meets a beautiful young woman named Fabrissa. In the course of an evening, Fabrissa tells Freddie a story of persecution, resistance, and death, hinting at a long-buried secret. By the next morning, she is gone, leaving Freddie alone to unlock a ghostly mystery hidden for 600 years. This is a staunchly old-fashioned story, taking fully 100 pages to get moving, and by the time things pick up, the gist of the narrative will be obvious to anyone who has ever sat through a Twilight Zone episode. Freddie's obtuseness does little to help along a gruel-thin story. (Feb.)
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Lllautah Veil
reviewed Winter Ghosts on September 12, 2017
Winter Ghosts
This was a quick yet entertaining read. The ending was a little confusing and vague though...
I will say straight off this book was perfect for my snowy getaway to Switzerland in December. It had a good dark, cold and even a bit eerie feel to it and as night comes early in the winter this was a really good pick.
I really liked how the author was able to create a really good atmosphere in this, she fully managed to paint a good picture of the time periods and the setting. Heck it even made me want to visit southern France myself as the author really succeeded in making the area sound exotic not to mention mysterious. Could there be more hidden caves in the Pyrenees that have yet to be discovered?
Anyone who knows me will know I love a good ghost story on a dark night and while this one didn't fail to deliver in the terms of suspense, it didn't exactly pack a punch or have much of a mystery factor either. For me it was pretty obvious who the ghosts were before the big reveal. But there again maybe that's just me as I've read a great many ghost stories in my time.
There was quite a lot of suspense and build up in this book to a positive finale which was all good, but I feel there could have been more of a mystery, how to say, I wish the mystery surrounding this could have been a little less obvious but once again maybe that's just me and my past experiences with books.
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