Ghost 19
Ratings10
Average rating3.4
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Ratings10
Average rating3.4
A woman moves to a town where she becomes obsessed with watching the lives of her neighbors while stuck in a house that refuses to let her leave in this first ever short story from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases.
Is there something wrong with Ginette Cox? It’s what everyone seems to think. When a doctor suggests that what she might need is less excitement, she packs up and moves from New York City to a house in suburban NY: 19 Howard Ave.
The town offers Ginette little in the way of entertainment in 1959, but at least she has interesting neighbors. Whether it’s the little girl with her doll or the couple and their mother-in-law, Ginette watches them from her window and makes up names and stories for them.
But it’s not all peaceful in suburbia. Ginette finds it hard to sleep in her new house. There are strange and scary noises coming from the basement, and she is trapped, either by a ghost or her own madness.
But when Ginette starts to think a murder has taken place and a mysterious man starts making terrifying appearances outside her window, it’s clear she must deal with whatever isn’t allowing her to escape this house…
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Trapped by a horror
The feeling of entrapment is good, but I wanted a little something more from the ending. Ginette is an interesting character and I really enjoyed her observations about her neighbors. Overall it is an enjoyable little story.
3.5. It was a 4 star all the way through until the last chapter that seemed disconnected and disingenuous from the novella as a whole. A quick spooky ghost read that is fun to read in one sitting but the ending between the neighbours and Ginette and Andrew and Detective Ian was just really cheesy and jarring.
