Reviewed by Annika
TITLE: Restless Spirits
SERIES: Spirits #1
AUTHOR: Jordan L. Hawk
NARRATOR: Greg Tremblay
PUBLISHER: Widdershins Press
RELEASE DATE: July 27, 2018
LENGTH: 7 hours, 11 minutes
BLURB:
After losing the family fortune to a fraudulent psychic, inventor Henry Strauss is determined to bring the otherworld under control through the application of science. All he needs is a genuine haunting to prove his Electro-Séance will work. A letter from wealthy industrialist Dominic Gladfield seems the answer to his prayers. Gladfield’s proposition: a contest pitting science against spiritualism, with a hefty prize for the winner.
The contest takes Henry to Reyhome Castle, the site of a series of brutal murders decades earlier. There he meets his rival for the prize, the dangerously appealing Vincent Night. Vincent is handsome, charming…and determined to get Henry into bed.
Henry can’t afford to fall for a spirit medium, let alone the competition. But nothing in the haunted mansion is quite as it seems, and soon winning the contest is the least of Henry’s concerns.
For the evil stalking the halls of Reyhome Castle wants to claim not just Henry and Vincent’s lives, but their very souls.
REVIEW:
After listening to and loving Whyborne & Griffin series I decided that I needed to check out more of Jordan L. Hawke’s work. I mean their ability to create amazing stories and characters couldn’t have been limited to the one series, right? And I’m glad to say that it wasn’t. Restless Spirits hooked me from the beginning and held me captive to the very end when I was left salivating for more.
After a fraud medium made off with the family fortune Henry Strauss has dedicated his life to prevent others to suffer the same fate. With the help of science and technology (and his cousin Jo) he’s invented an Electro-Séance machine to detect and disband spirits. Now he just needs a spirit to test it on. That comes in the form of a challenge. A wealthy industrialist has purchased a haunted mansion and he wants the spirits inhabiting the place gone, so he ordered a challenge science vs. spiritualism and whichever team won would walk away with a hefty sum.
Vincent Night, medium extraordinaire is hiding from his gift ever since a haunting gone awry caused the death of his mentor. Now he and his business partner and fellow medium, Miss Deveraux, is running out of funds and are at risk of losing their shop. So he reluctantly accepts the challenge to rid Reyhome Castle from spirits. The only problem is that one of the spirits in that cursed place is determined not only to kill them all, but taking their souls as well.
Neither man is what the other expected; a Native American and a white man openly claiming his black cousin as his kin. One open to possibilities and the other mistrustful towards everyone and everything. They have both been hurt in the past and are reluctant to let others in. However they both have great hearts and I did enjoy them together – unsettling each other, but also working together.
Greg Tremblay’s narration of this book was great. He made you feel the cold when spirits were near, the fear of them. He made you feel like you were with Henry and Vincent in that haunted mansion, fighting for their lives. He also captured the essence of the characters, not only Henry and Vincent’s but the secondary characters as well. He narrates with such passion that you are sucked into that world and don’t surface until the book has ended and you are left with a want and need to go back for more.
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