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A review by lauriereadslohf
Inheriting Her Ghosts by S.H. Cooper
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
5.0
I read S.H. Cooper’s book The Festering Ones last year and enjoyed it quite a bit. It featured a strong protagonist who is fearless and determined to get to the root of the mysteries - even if she has to put herself at risk to do it. Inheriting Her Ghosts has another great heroine and it is very mysterious and ghostly and full of the gothic atmosphere that I adore! And it has dogs! Two of ‘em!!
Okay, now that I’ve almost used up all of the exclamation points, I’ll tell you a little bit about the story. Eudora Fellows lives in a time when women have to act a certain way. Women are expected to wear dresses, get married, obey their menfolk, cook every dinner, iron the undies, have lots of offspring, all that crap and all without contemplating murder. Eudora, though? Eudora doesn't do any of those things and instead lives quite happily with her two faithful hounds and her books in her childhood home. When she gets news that she’s inherited her great aunt’s estate in the country, a place so fancy it has its own name “High Hearth”, she leaves the city and is relieved to walk away from all of the gossipy hens who surround her in the city.
“Truth be told, I’d never much cared for the male species. Or, more accurately, the human species as a whole.”
Who can blame her for wanting to move out to the boonies? Not me. Anyhow, High Hearth is HUGE and most likely haunted, rumors surround her deceased aunt and they’re all rather creepy and grown-ass men are afraid but Eudora thinks it’s all ridiculous until she starts to experience some unexplainable and skin-crawling things within the house for herself. Has auntie tainted the house with darkness forevermore? What secrets are hiding behind the locked door with the missing key? Will the dogs be safe?! Oh, my heart. The suspense and worry nearly did me in on this one but I’m not going to go and ruin anything because all questions were answered in the end and answered in the best way imaginable and you all need to experience the experience that is this story for your own selves.
Inheriting Her Ghosts gets all five of my stingy stars! It is a gruesome gothic-tinged mystery with an edge of revenge, despair, and a few perfectly placed moments of wit and humor that balance out the stabs of grief the author throws at you. I loved it and I love that it’s going to haunt me for a bit and I think a lot of you horror fans will enjoy it very, very much!
Okay, now that I’ve almost used up all of the exclamation points, I’ll tell you a little bit about the story. Eudora Fellows lives in a time when women have to act a certain way. Women are expected to wear dresses, get married, obey their menfolk, cook every dinner, iron the undies, have lots of offspring, all that crap and all without contemplating murder. Eudora, though? Eudora doesn't do any of those things and instead lives quite happily with her two faithful hounds and her books in her childhood home. When she gets news that she’s inherited her great aunt’s estate in the country, a place so fancy it has its own name “High Hearth”, she leaves the city and is relieved to walk away from all of the gossipy hens who surround her in the city.
“Truth be told, I’d never much cared for the male species. Or, more accurately, the human species as a whole.”
Who can blame her for wanting to move out to the boonies? Not me. Anyhow, High Hearth is HUGE and most likely haunted, rumors surround her deceased aunt and they’re all rather creepy and grown-ass men are afraid but Eudora thinks it’s all ridiculous until she starts to experience some unexplainable and skin-crawling things within the house for herself. Has auntie tainted the house with darkness forevermore? What secrets are hiding behind the locked door with the missing key? Will the dogs be safe?! Oh, my heart. The suspense and worry nearly did me in on this one but I’m not going to go and ruin anything because all questions were answered in the end and answered in the best way imaginable and you all need to experience the experience that is this story for your own selves.
Inheriting Her Ghosts gets all five of my stingy stars! It is a gruesome gothic-tinged mystery with an edge of revenge, despair, and a few perfectly placed moments of wit and humor that balance out the stabs of grief the author throws at you. I loved it and I love that it’s going to haunt me for a bit and I think a lot of you horror fans will enjoy it very, very much!
Content Warnings
Minor: Child death and Murder