The Ghosts of Thorwald Place
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Received the audio through NetGalley, and I thought that Rachel Fulginiti did a great job with this.
This was a unique story for me. I was for the most part pulled in by the cover, so I did not give the blurb a read. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it was not for the main character to be murdered in the very beginning of the story! I guess I thought with the book's title that it would be about her being haunted, not killed and becoming a ghost! (FYI, that is revealed in the blurb, so not me spoiling). So, it was a nice surprise and worked for me as a plot twist.
The main character is believable and relatable. Her grief and paranoia has pushed her to become a complete agoraphobe inside her well secured apartment complex. Even though she completely cuts herself off from the outside, it's not enough to keep her safe. Nothing is. I didn't really feel like that was creepy while listening to it, but now that I'm writing it out it surely does.
The author does a great job subverting a lot of the expectations around paranormal activity—what a ghost can do, and can not do, may surprise you a lot. It is much more along the lines of someone normal trapped in the in between of life and death, than it is like a malignant spirit in movies.
The author weaves a very twisting story, where every character, and every interaction, may lead to another clue or even another mystery. My only gripe is I did feel like this went on to the point where the main character's story is a little less mysterious than I wished it would have been. Personally a 4/5* for me.
TGoTP is an interesting paranormal mystery set totally in a high-class condo. The story is a real genre-bender – both creepy ghost story and mystery-thriller. It features murders (the MC is one of the victims), ghosts (the MC is one of those too), and a bunch of residents with mostly unsavory secret lives.
The story is very well written. I liked it, but not as much as I had expected to after reading glowing reviews by some folks whose opinions I trust. (Heh. Tastes aren't always congruent. Imagine that?
