Published: February 11, 2014
ISBN: 978-0385538497
Genre: Horror
Book format: Electronic – Edelweiss / Above the Treeline
Obtained via: Publisher
Reviewed by name and email address: Gina Gina@loveromancesandmorereviews.com
Three hearts
What would you do for your loved
ones? Your child? And if that child died, what would do give to
have him or her back? What lengths would
you go to for even another hour with them?
Another week? If you knew there was a way to bring them back, no matter
what the risk, even for that short time, would you do it?
In 1908 in West Hall, Vermont, Sara
Harrison Shea is found dead. Her passing
is made all the more tragic because it follows on the heels of her daughter,
Gertie’s unexplained death.
Now, a little over 100 years later, a
young woman named Ruthie lives in the house where Sara and Gertie lived along
with her mother and younger sister. They
have lived in their own quiet away, keeping to themselves. Then one day Alice disappears. There is no reason or rhym, she is just
gone. There one second, gone the next. In the hours and days after Alice’s disappearance
Ruthie finds a diary begun by Sara all those years before. In those pages Ruthie learns a secret, one
that she cannot credit as true, but in hope against hope, she begins to follow
the path laid out by that secret. She
and Fawn are soon joined by Katherine who is mourning the loss of her husband,
Gary and their child. When Katherine
learns that there may be a way to bring her husband back, she ventures to West
Hall. There events unfold that none of
the participants may ever recover from.
Jennifer McMahon’s WINTER PEOPLE is in no way, shape or form an easy read. It is not a story to be read when you are
alone at night and you certainly want to leave the lights on when you do sleep. She brings together two spellbinding stories—one
from 1908 and the other in the present day into an amazing tale. She raises the question of what would you do
for a loved one who has died? What would
you give to have them back for even a few hours? The character, Katherine, speaks to that kind
of desperation when she says that even a week more with Gary alive and in her
life is worth anything. Just a week to
talk to him, to hold and be held by him.
Just one more week. And even
after the horrors she sees revealed when she arrives in West Hall that
desperation to be with her husband one more time over rides any other emotion.
I sat down to read WINTER PEOPLE expecting little more than a good ghost story and
found myself unable to put the book down as the characters’ stories were
unveiled. Ms. Mchahon tells her story in
a voice that is monochromatic in detail that brings out the ghostly impressions
of the story. If it were to be brought
to the big screen it would be most dramatic done in black and white with only
spaces of color when the ghosts appear.
If you like horror and ghost stories, WINTER PEOPLE is definitely one to keep
an eye out for….just don’t turn off the lights when you are done!
This is an objective review and not an endorsement of
this book.
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