Reviewed by Annika
TITLE: The Well 
AUTHOR: Marie Sexton
NARRATOR: John Solo
PUBLISHER: Self Published
RELEASE DATE: September 4, 2017
LENGTH: 6 hours, 42 minutes
BLURB:
Twenty years after prom queen Cassie Kennedy is brutally murdered, six teenagers break into the house where she was killed to hold a séance. Haven knows his cousin Elise only wants to scare the crap out of him and his friends, but he’s willing to put up with one of her pranks if it means a chance to spend a few hours with the new kid in town, Pierce Hunter.
But when morning comes, Elise has disappeared without a trace.
Twelve years later, Pierce and his twin brother Jordan are professional paranormal investigators, starring in their own ghost-hunting TV show. When Pierce calls Haven, insisting they return to the supposedly haunted building one last time, Haven reluctantly agrees. He’s nervous about seeing Pierce again, but he’s determined to get some answers. Did they really speak to Cassie’s ghost that night? What happened to Elise? And the biggest mystery of all – how did she know the secret of the well?
REVIEW:
I enjoyed this book, I was captivated from the first to the last word wanting to know what happened next, always wanting to know more.
The Well is a two part story, one part mystery and one part ghost story. 12 years ago Haven, his cousin Elise along with a few friends, including the twins Jordan and Pierce, broke into the town’s most infamous house. It’s been rumoured to be haunted by the girl that was murdered there years earlier. A séance and a few scares later it’s time to go to sleep. Only the next day, Elise is nowhere to be found, and 12 years later her disappearance is still a mystery.
This book is told from Haven’s POV and one question has been plaguing him for the last 12 years: What really happened that night Elise disappeared? He is convinced that Jordan, the last person that saw her alive killed her, so in order to bring him to justice he agrees to go on the show, re-living and remembering what happened so long ago.
Jordan and Piece was also deeply affected by that night. Today, they have a paranormal investigators TV show where they travel around to haunted places to search for the unknown. A tip has brought them back to where it all started, investigating the haunted house and maybe talk to a ghost or two in the process.
Don’t go into this book expecting an epic romance story, because that’s not what you get. There is barely any romance near it. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t need my romance books to be hot and heavy, far from it, but I do want some kind of connection, something that shows why the characters fall for each other. I want to feel the emotions between them, but it was lacking in this book. We were never there for the first kiss between Haven and Pierce. We were told what happened after the fact and mostly in passing. It was a bit anticlimactic to tell you the truth.
And the paranormal aspect you ask. Well. I guess that will depend on you – are you a sceptic or a believer, because this book could go either way. Either there were ghosts communicating with the living or it was all in their – and your imagination, making the whole thing up because you expect it to be there. I loved this approach. It was refreshing and also just right. You question along with the characters, waver and stand firm in your beliefs and in the end it is all left up to you to decide – where there ghosts – or was it only our imaginations?
I loved John Solo’s narration of this book. He captured the eerie and haunted feeling Sexton wrote with her words. He brought you into this book, and held you captive and I loved listening to him.
Recommended for the overall story, not so much the romance.
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