This supernatural romance follows a young woman who is blessed (or cursed) by Second Sight. When she learns that her grandmother has died and left her the family's 200-year-old home in Louisiana, she makes a final break with her father and returns there.
It doesn't take long for the Sight to find her again. She is quickly thrust into the search for a missing child, and meets the flesh-and-blood man who has haunted her dreams. There's also a ghost story weaving around the edges, plus a suspense thread as elements from her father's life reach out to threaten her.
Interesting book, but McCall loses points for a couple of things â the âsuspenseâ aspect is never really developed, and there's no sense of danger, emphasized by the facile way in which McCall eliminates most of the threats. She also never explains where Laurel Scanlon â a woman who has apparently never worked a salaried job â is getting the money to rehabilitate the disintegrating 1814 plantation house she has inherited. And â okay, this is an extremely personal and picky item â at one point she has a character returning to her tiny home town in Oregon â population 756 â and arriving at her parents' home by taxi. Trust me -- rural Oregon villages of 700 people do not have taxi services.
Combined, these niggling shortcomings dropped my rating from a B+ to a C+. Still an enjoyable read, but it could have been much better.
It doesn't take long for the Sight to find her again. She is quickly thrust into the search for a missing child, and meets the flesh-and-blood man who has haunted her dreams. There's also a ghost story weaving around the edges, plus a suspense thread as elements from her father's life reach out to threaten her.
Interesting book, but McCall loses points for a couple of things â the âsuspenseâ aspect is never really developed, and there's no sense of danger, emphasized by the facile way in which McCall eliminates most of the threats. She also never explains where Laurel Scanlon â a woman who has apparently never worked a salaried job â is getting the money to rehabilitate the disintegrating 1814 plantation house she has inherited. And â okay, this is an extremely personal and picky item â at one point she has a character returning to her tiny home town in Oregon â population 756 â and arriving at her parents' home by taxi. Trust me -- rural Oregon villages of 700 people do not have taxi services.
Combined, these niggling shortcomings dropped my rating from a B+ to a C+. Still an enjoyable read, but it could have been much better.
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