One of my Mum's books, passed to me know that she has finished with it. This looks interesting, so I think I'll read it before it travels onwards.

I'm going to be completely honest and say I have absolutely no idea what genre the author was aiming for - whether it was historical, romance, supernatural or mystery, it fell seriously short of any.

That's not to say it wasn't an ok read - it was enjoyable on some level. There's two stories here and the chapters bounce from one to the other. At first it has huge promise - a missing 18th century maid, a dead body in the river and a modern teacher who decides to buy a house on that same river. And then it kind of dwindled a bit.

The mystery is soon solved as the reader begins to follow the maid's adventures. The romance is a bit unbelievable and somewhat forced. And the supernatural haunting is all but non-existent ... I expected this to be the thing that tied the two stories together, but instead you get a mish-mash of ancestry hunting, odd coincidences and things happening that have absolutely no real impact on the plot line.

So overall, ok, but a bit boring and disappointing.

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Sorry, just could not get into it.

Leaving this one at the free bookshelf in Mjódd