Helpful Score: 6
This book teeters a little unsuccessfully between romance, suspense, and the paranormal thriller. I liked the idea of pirates and ghosts, history and buried treasure but I just was never really sold on the whole book. I feel like Heather Graham spent so much time trying to dazzle us with her knowledge of the Keys, Bahama, and the Bermuda Triangle that she left the important plot points until kind of late and the ending was very rushed and a little illogical. Since the plot is based on a slasher movie that became a real murder mystery it's ironic that this book has the unsatisfying ending of most slasher movies--you know that ending where everything is haphazardly wrapped up in the last 5 minutes (or pages in this case), the logistics of the murders are never really resolved, and the murderers become stereotypical one-dimensional crazies. And of course our hero and heroine proclaim their everlasting love to each other. I swear there was more love and romance between the friendly ghosts who haunt our hero than there was between the two main protagonists. And they made very limited appearances. I liked this book all right for an easy beach read but I think it tried to be too many genres at once. I've liked Heather Graham's books in the past--mostly her historicals--but I just found this particular book unsatisfying. I don't think I'll read any more of her suspense stories. A successful suspense story needs a good payoff at the end and this just didn't have it.
Helpful Score: 1
Now that I finished all three books, I gave them 4 stars. I loved the ghost, Bartholomew and his interactions in all the books. I enjoyed the ghost parts more then all the hot sex scenes, but overall I loved the books!
Helpful Score: 1
Heather Graham is one of my Favorite Authors,The ones I really like are the ones dealing with ghosts.She make's them come alive. She didn't disappoint me with this one.
Looking forward to the 2nd and third ones.
Looking forward to the 2nd and third ones.
Awesome, keeps you waiting to turn to the next page.
I couldn't put the book down.
not bad for a way to pass the day
On Haunt Island near Bimini, writer Vanessa Loren is part of a crew filming a low-budget horror movie. As they complete the final wrap, someone gruesomely murders two actors Georgia Dare and Travis Glenn. Their heads are decapitated and posed in a frightening manner in the sand. The case is unsolved. For the next two years, Vanessa remains frightened and unable to sleep as she suffers nightmares from the grisly scene she saw on the Bahamas' island beach.
Filmmaker Sean O'Hara hires Vanessa to work on a documentary he is filming in the area where the cold case homicides that haunt her occurred. Hoping to get closure, she agrees. Sean can see ghosts and Vanessa fall in love, but a deranged killer stalks them anxiously waiting for a rerun of what happened two years ago.
The second Bone Island paranormal romantic suspense (see Ghost Shadow) is a delightful thriller due to the ghosts feeling genuine. The lead couple is a wonderful duet whose hope for a Hollywood ending is in trouble from a slasher (everyone knows what happens in a slasher flick). Ghost Night is tense entertainment as a killer looks forward to adding a pair in love to the count of victims.
Filmmaker Sean O'Hara hires Vanessa to work on a documentary he is filming in the area where the cold case homicides that haunt her occurred. Hoping to get closure, she agrees. Sean can see ghosts and Vanessa fall in love, but a deranged killer stalks them anxiously waiting for a rerun of what happened two years ago.
The second Bone Island paranormal romantic suspense (see Ghost Shadow) is a delightful thriller due to the ghosts feeling genuine. The lead couple is a wonderful duet whose hope for a Hollywood ending is in trouble from a slasher (everyone knows what happens in a slasher flick). Ghost Night is tense entertainment as a killer looks forward to adding a pair in love to the count of victims.
The second of the Bone Island trilogy about a small group of amateur sleuths in Key West who solve some strange murders along with their "sidekick" Bartholomes, the ghost of a long dead pirate/pprivateer who can be seen and talk to some of them. Also, a good history of Key West and a good story and characters, plus the daily life on Key West.
