The cover of this book of this book is awesome. A churning
sea, an empty boat, and an old house with a light glowing from an upper
window. Looks like the creepy, scary kind
of book that I like.
Remy Galway and her ten-year-old daughter, Olivia, have just
moved into a three-hundred-year-old house in Cold Harbor Springs on Long Island.
Remy is trying to rebuild her and Olivia’s lives after a failed marriage. She’s
making a go of it as a yoga instructor.
The old house is charming, but old houses have their
problems. Remy had been told that the house a once belonged to a whaling
captain and his family. The reader knows this is true because Cash starts the
novel with the Captain and his crew chasing one of the largest whales he was
ever seen. The novel alternates between
the two stories---Captain Eli Gasper and Remy and Olivia. It’s easy to follow
and well delineated.
Olivia feels the presence of Eli’s spirit first. Remy
doesn’t want to believe in anything she can’t see. Eli is ticked that two new
people have moved into his home and goes about making a mess. The mess looks
like vandalism to Remy. The he manages to set the place on fire and break a few
windows.
Hugh, the mayor, get involved. Cold Springs Harbor is a
small town; he takes an interest in the people who live there. However, Hugh
harbors more than a superficial interest in Remy.
As they struggle through the mess, the reader also gets to
see what Eli is doing and thinking. He hates that new people now inhabit his
home. He liked it better when Pat lived there---no television, no Internet, no
comings and goings of other people.
What isn’t clear right away is the presence of two other
spirits. It took a while, but I think surmised that they were Eli’s angel
guardians and watched over him while he was bound to earth.
This book was labeled as horror, but it doesn’t really fit
that genre. It reminded me more of The
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, without the romance between the Remy and Eli.
Still, I give it 4 out of 5 stars. I would have given it five if the two other ghosts were more clearly defined.
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