This is a review of the audiobook available from Library2Go it
is also available in Ebook and is available in house .
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon narrated by, Cassandra
Campbell & Kathe Mazur
Synopsis from Goodreads: West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of
strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara
Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just
months after the tragic death of her daughter, Gertie. Now, in present day,
nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara's farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and
her younger sister, Fawn. Alice has always insisted that they live off the
grid, a decision that suddenly proves perilous when Ruthie wakes up one morning
to find that Alice has vanished without a trace. Searching for clues, she is
startled to find a copy of Sara Harrison Shea's diary hidden beneath the
floorboards of her mother's bedroom. As Ruthie gets sucked deeper into the
mystery of Sara's fate, she discovers that she's not the only person who's
desperately looking for someone that they've lost. But she may be the only one
who can stop history from repeating itself.
My review:
This book had me on the edge of my seat the entire time and I
don’t think I took a breath for the last hour or so. I did not want to put this
book down, I needed to know what exactly was going on with everyone in the
book!
This is a great story, atmospheric, haunting, and addictive.
I loved how all the stories came together and all the timelines were very well
written and flowed beautifully with each other. The past & present stories
were both great. I also really liked the characters especially Sara because I
think she went through the most emotionally.
This is a hard book to review because the way the story
wraps around it would be so easy to spoil it for someone and I wouldn’t want
anyone to not get the full effect of how this story plays out. So much of the
story leaves you guessing and wondering what is real and what is not and I
enjoyed the parts of Sara’s diary that gives so many clues as to what is really
going on but also leaves much unsaid or lost. The craziness of the first big
reveal caught me totally off-guard it wasn’t something I expected at all and
that makes for a great book!
Cassandra Campbell & Kathe Mazur were the narrators and
I thought they did a wonderful job even if their voices are very similar you
still knew who was telling the story. I thought they were able to bring a
softness to the tale when warranted and creeped me out just enough!(which is a
good thing)
This is so much more than a ghost
story it is also a story of family and
what that means and how you treat people may come back to haunt you (heehee see
what I did there?). But the ending OMG
the ending in reference to Katherine did she?? Didn’t she??? And poor Ruthie I
feel bad for her. Sorry, but just had to have my say on that and make it
spoiler free, when you read the book you will understand and Yes you really do
need to read this book!
Lesson #1 from this book let the dead stay dead!
5 stars
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