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A review by gymgirlreads
The Haunting of Beatrix Greene: Vol. 1 by Rachel Hawkins
5.0
Thank you to the publisher, authors and Netgalley for an e-arc in exchange for a honest review!
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Beatrix Greene is a spiritual medium who offers her services to clients who crave for some contact or closure with their departed loved ones. Unlike her competitors, Beatrix is famous for relaying empathy in her work without all the show and pomp that mediums displayed during Victorian England. However she is also a fraud just like the others and does not believe in ghosts.
At a time when finances are tight, Beatrix gets a lucrative offer from Dr. Walker, a scientist known to tarnish reputations of spiritual mediums. Nevertheless, Dr. Walker challenges Beatrix to perform a seance and conclude whether Ashbury Manor is truly haunted or not following the history of a mother who killed one of her two sons before slashing her own throat. Beatrix takes up the offer and faces the consequences of the most evil journey one can imagine.
Let me start off by saying this book has gratuitous gore so definitely not for the fainthearted! But if you can get past that, this book is unique in many ways! First, the book is written by 3 women authors with each author penning one chapter. Yet the writing is not choppy at all. Secondly, the chapters are called episodes and the whole book is called Season 1. Perhaps a sequel is in order? Thirdly, this is a feminist horror novel where the women rule! You go, ladies! And lastly, my favorite...the ending is not your usual ending of mundane mutilations (although there is plenty of that) but lot of positive messages. I won’t get too specific but messages like good/confidence can outdo any type of evil. So even though I read the most gory novel this year, the positive messages in the end left me in good spirits (pun intended). 5 stars!
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Beatrix Greene is a spiritual medium who offers her services to clients who crave for some contact or closure with their departed loved ones. Unlike her competitors, Beatrix is famous for relaying empathy in her work without all the show and pomp that mediums displayed during Victorian England. However she is also a fraud just like the others and does not believe in ghosts.
At a time when finances are tight, Beatrix gets a lucrative offer from Dr. Walker, a scientist known to tarnish reputations of spiritual mediums. Nevertheless, Dr. Walker challenges Beatrix to perform a seance and conclude whether Ashbury Manor is truly haunted or not following the history of a mother who killed one of her two sons before slashing her own throat. Beatrix takes up the offer and faces the consequences of the most evil journey one can imagine.
Let me start off by saying this book has gratuitous gore so definitely not for the fainthearted! But if you can get past that, this book is unique in many ways! First, the book is written by 3 women authors with each author penning one chapter. Yet the writing is not choppy at all. Secondly, the chapters are called episodes and the whole book is called Season 1. Perhaps a sequel is in order? Thirdly, this is a feminist horror novel where the women rule! You go, ladies! And lastly, my favorite...the ending is not your usual ending of mundane mutilations (although there is plenty of that) but lot of positive messages. I won’t get too specific but messages like good/confidence can outdo any type of evil. So even though I read the most gory novel this year, the positive messages in the end left me in good spirits (pun intended). 5 stars!