A review by micrummey
Ghost Girl by Lesley Thomson
2.0
Started off with a good premise then fell away drastically into a fireball of confusion. Over written with so many threads left dangling in the air. Some chapters didn't move the story along at all and it seemed the author had no real idea where she was going with the narrative. There were so many plot holes I gave up thinking you can't do that.
I was questioning throughout how a cleaner, Stella and the sidekick, Jack, a tube train driver had the time to investigate the mysterious deaths.
Jack was a confusing character as he went in search of 'hosts' with no explanation of why he did this or exactly what hosts were.
There were scenes with Stella's mother, Suzanne and Stella where I couldn't help thinking they were given the wrong names as Stella feels it should be the name of an older woman.
The book went between 1966 and 2012 and it was relatively easy to distinguish between the years although it didn't work for me that the author tried to link the trial of the Moors Murderers Brady and Hindley with what was happening in 2012.
A mess of a book which didn't tidy things up even in the epilogue.
I was questioning throughout how a cleaner, Stella and the sidekick, Jack, a tube train driver had the time to investigate the mysterious deaths.
Jack was a confusing character as he went in search of 'hosts' with no explanation of why he did this or exactly what hosts were.
There were scenes with Stella's mother, Suzanne and Stella where I couldn't help thinking they were given the wrong names as Stella feels it should be the name of an older woman.
The book went between 1966 and 2012 and it was relatively easy to distinguish between the years although it didn't work for me that the author tried to link the trial of the Moors Murderers Brady and Hindley with what was happening in 2012.
A mess of a book which didn't tidy things up even in the epilogue.