A review by truestorydesu
Cold Bath Street by A.J. Hartley

5.0

A perfect October read - it's a ghost story...but with time travel. How does that work? Read the book and find out. I highly recommend getting the audiobook from audible - it's read by Christopher Eccleston, and he does a perfect job (especially since this story takes place in the Northwest of England, and Eccleston has an awesome Northern greater-Manchester-area-type accent. (I don't know what English accents are called. I just know in the Northwest of America, we've been merging our vowels. Cot, caught, it's the same. Also, how can Great Britain, a series of islands with roughly the same square mileage as my home state ((Oregon)) have so many accents? I could tell you if someone was from Boston, but put a bunch of westerners together and we could probably only pick out the Californian and no one else).

Seriously, if you're looking for a good spooky Halloween read that isn't too long or too scary (well, not gory scary, anyway. More existential-scary) then go read Cold Bath Street. It's only strengthened my resolve to someday haunt the North of England. Not as a ghost, but as a loud-mouthed American tourist. I'll be sure to wear my most obnoxious t-shirts.