Windwood Farm by Rebecca Patrick-Howard is an interesting ghost story/mystery. The author of the book shows real promise and the book kept me entertained enough to read it in only a couple of days.
The ghost story portion of this book was exactly the way I like them a bit creepy, a little scary and intriguing enough to keep me turning the page to find out what happened. The mystery attached to the ghost story was well thought out and fairly believable. The more modern mystery felt contrived and left me wondering why it was even included. I suspect the author though the book needed more suspense but it felt like the addition of the modern mystery pulled you out of the delightful headspace the ghost story created.
On the whole I really liked this book and will probably start the 2nd book in the Taryn's Camera series fairly quickly however a really good editor would have taken this book from a good book to an awesome book in its genre. In addition to the issues with the modern mystery there are a number of rather abrupt scene changes that kicked me out of the story and caused me to go back over the last couple of pages thinking that a page or two had been skipped. Still this author shows real talent and I'm looking forward to my next excursion with Taryn's Camera.
If you like this book you may also like books by Wendy Webb.
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