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4.01 AVERAGE
4.01 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
I recieved an ARC from the publisher (thank you!) as a librarian perk at a conference.
However, getting a book for free doesn't mean I have to love it... But I completely and utterly loved this book anyway! This series continues to be fantastic and I look forward to it continuing.
As you can tell from the book's description, this is a novel where we are going to get some answers! The series plot deepens, we get all kinds of emotional revelations, and we learn more about our favorite characters to love.
I don't want to risk spoiling anything by even hinting at what happens in the book, so I'll just close by saying that William Ritter is an extraordinary writer and I look so forward to reading more of his work in the future!
However, getting a book for free doesn't mean I have to love it... But I completely and utterly loved this book anyway! This series continues to be fantastic and I look forward to it continuing.
As you can tell from the book's description, this is a novel where we are going to get some answers! The series plot deepens, we get all kinds of emotional revelations, and we learn more about our favorite characters to love.
I don't want to risk spoiling anything by even hinting at what happens in the book, so I'll just close by saying that William Ritter is an extraordinary writer and I look so forward to reading more of his work in the future!
I loved the first two books, but this is the one I loved the most. It was so, so amazing!!
hmmmm
Idk what to say about this one. It’s the third in the series & it feels like a runaway train. Each book just builds momentum - I wonder how many books will make the series.
Idk what to say about this one. It’s the third in the series & it feels like a runaway train. Each book just builds momentum - I wonder how many books will make the series.
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Ghostly Echoes was a good official start to 2018. Abigail and Jackaby's chemistry had me chuckling, but their growing friendship was touching as well. I also found the chapters detailing Jackaby's background and family quite poignant. Abigail's bond with Jenny, and of course Charlie, was another highlight: her comment (and subsequent embarrassment) about reading with him in dog form was adorable. Finally, the mystery itself was good and the truth about Jenny's murder and Howard's disappearance was very well done. All in all, I am keen to read [b:The Dire King|31438747|The Dire King (Jackaby, #4)|William Ritter|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1501159728s/31438747.jpg|52136585] later this year.
4.5 STARS
Ghostly Echoes by William Ritter is the third book in the Jackaby series, a YA fantasy mystery historical fiction set in New Fiddleham, New England in the 1890s. I have been loving buddy reading these books and I think that so far, this third book is my favourite in the series. The first two books were so good, but this one gave me real murder mystery vibes with a lot of great supernatural undertones and I feel like everything is coming together and the final book is sure to have a big showdown, I can’t wait!
This book is once again set in New Fiddleham, only the characters visit parts of the town that we have never seen before, including some darker and sinister places that I guarantee you would not want to visit. It was the perfect choice for October as there were a lot of spooky vibes!
I really love the writing style in this book and I think that it makes the setting and the world-building absolutely incredible. I find the descriptions to be so vivid, I am always whisked away into the moment and I sometimes struggle to put the book down once we reach our daily quota of chapters. If you like eerie settings with a lot of detail and a magical, haunting feeling, these books are for you!
However, this book also has wonderful funny moments, there is a subtle humour that just got me every time, as well as a lot of character developments and relationship growth. Jackaby, Abigail, Charlie and Jenny have turned into such an amazing mystery-solving team and I love them so much.
Where books 1 and 2 were more on the specifically supernatural mystery side and a lot more like Charmed, Supernatural or other TV shows like those, Ghostly Echoes becomes so much more and really resembles the vibes you get from Elementary. Ghostly Echoes is by far my favourite in this series at the moment!
Overall, this was a fantastic third instalment in a great series. If you love mystery, YA, fantasy and historical fiction, then don’t wait any longer and pick up this series. I can’t understand why I don’t hear about this series more because I love it so much! I gave this book 4.5 stars, I’m holding out for The Dire King and hoping that it trumps all expectations and that I can award it 5 stars! I highly recommend this book to all YA, fantasy, mystery and historical fiction fans that like supernatural and paranormal additions to their stories!
Ghostly Echoes by William Ritter is the third book in the Jackaby series, a YA fantasy mystery historical fiction set in New Fiddleham, New England in the 1890s. I have been loving buddy reading these books and I think that so far, this third book is my favourite in the series. The first two books were so good, but this one gave me real murder mystery vibes with a lot of great supernatural undertones and I feel like everything is coming together and the final book is sure to have a big showdown, I can’t wait!
This book is once again set in New Fiddleham, only the characters visit parts of the town that we have never seen before, including some darker and sinister places that I guarantee you would not want to visit. It was the perfect choice for October as there were a lot of spooky vibes!
I really love the writing style in this book and I think that it makes the setting and the world-building absolutely incredible. I find the descriptions to be so vivid, I am always whisked away into the moment and I sometimes struggle to put the book down once we reach our daily quota of chapters. If you like eerie settings with a lot of detail and a magical, haunting feeling, these books are for you!
However, this book also has wonderful funny moments, there is a subtle humour that just got me every time, as well as a lot of character developments and relationship growth. Jackaby, Abigail, Charlie and Jenny have turned into such an amazing mystery-solving team and I love them so much.
Where books 1 and 2 were more on the specifically supernatural mystery side and a lot more like Charmed, Supernatural or other TV shows like those, Ghostly Echoes becomes so much more and really resembles the vibes you get from Elementary. Ghostly Echoes is by far my favourite in this series at the moment!
Overall, this was a fantastic third instalment in a great series. If you love mystery, YA, fantasy and historical fiction, then don’t wait any longer and pick up this series. I can’t understand why I don’t hear about this series more because I love it so much! I gave this book 4.5 stars, I’m holding out for The Dire King and hoping that it trumps all expectations and that I can award it 5 stars! I highly recommend this book to all YA, fantasy, mystery and historical fiction fans that like supernatural and paranormal additions to their stories!
adventurous
adventurous
challenging
emotional
inspiring
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Ghostly Echoes is the third full novel in the series (there’s one short story as well, The Map) and the character who is the driver of the story is the ghostly owner of 926 Augur Lane, the headquarters of Jackaby’s detective agency. There’s corruption and murder afoot in New Fiddleham and it all links back to how Jenny Cavanaugh was murdered a decade ago and the disappearance of her finance the night she died. As Abigail races to unravel the mystery of how and why people keep turning up missing or dead flinging herself more deeply into her friends’ grim histories, Jackaby leads a cast of familiar characters across the cobblestones of nineteenth-century New England and down to the mythical underworld and back again, solving the case at hand and setting up the endgame in the next book.
Full review: https://faintingviolet.wordpress.com/2018/07/12/ghostly-echoes-cbr10-24/
Full review: https://faintingviolet.wordpress.com/2018/07/12/ghostly-echoes-cbr10-24/