By: Kristen Ashley
Series: Ghosts and Reincarnation #1
My Copy: Amazon.comBook Whisperer's Review:
Cash Fraser is planning revenge and to
get it he needs the perfect woman. So he hires her. Abigail Butler has lost
nearly everything in her life and she’s about to lose the home she loves.
Cash meets Abby, who is posing as a paid
escort, and the minute he does he knows he’s willing to pay for more than Abby
being his pretend girlfriend. A lot more. Abby needs the money or the last
thing that links her to her dead family and husband will be gone. The deal is
struck but both Cash and Abby get more than they bargained for.
Cash realises very quickly that Abby
isn’t what she seems and while he changes strategies, Abby discovers that
Cash’s legacy, Penmort Castle, is like all the tales say – very, very haunted.
Making matters worse, the ghost in residence wants her dead.
Abby’s found herself in the battle of her
life so she enlists Mrs. Truman, her nosy neighbour; Jenny, her no-nonsense
friend; Cassandra McNabb, white witch and clairvoyant with a penchant for
wearing scarves (and lots of them); and Angus McPherson, dyed-in-the-wool Scot
(which means he hunts ghosts in a kilt) to fight the vicious ghost who has
vowed that she will rest at nothing to kill the true, abiding love of the
master of Penmort.
KA is one of my favorite writers…of all
time. She is right up there with John Steinbeck and Harper Lee (although
I am not comparing any of these authors to each other.) I love her; I
truly do…well, I love her books. I don’t really know KA. However,
it was really hard for me to get into Penmort Castle. For some reason, I
just wasn’t feeling it. I did like Cash and Abby together. I felt
like Cash was a really good character to pull Abby out of her shell and make
her start experiencing life again. But something about this ghost theme
book didn’t make me zip through the pages like normal.
I think if the plot line just covered
Cash paying Abby to be his fake girlfriend and realizing that there was so much
more to her than what he planned to find out, I would have loved it a little
bit more.
I do think that after reading this book,
the ghost was a necessary addition to the plot line. How else would Abby
be able to meet Cash’s family and grow so close to them if they weren’t trying
to figure out how to get rid of the supernatural being? Still, something
was just off about it. I liked it, but I
didn’t love it.
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