I enjoyed this story the ghost elements was awesome I truly enjoyed all of the background work and history of the spirit too. I liked Kelsey but she was kind of wishy washy and boring her hangups got a bit old, and Thayne I wantedto junk punch a bunch of times! But I did stay engaged in the story and needed to know the outcome. Few things that bugged me was the characters got mixed up a few times and I truly wish Thayne and Kelsey would have spoken to his brother i unresolved there. But all in all if you like insta love stories and ghosts then this book will suit you. And frankly there aren't many of this genre around so....

Such an interesting and well-written paranormal. ENjoyed

Haunted,  Shari Nichols

Review from Jeannie Zelos book reviews

Genre: Romance, Sci Fi & Fantasy

A stand alone story, which sounded fun. I enjoyed it, didn't love it but was a quick escape from the real world.

I felt for Karly, and her sister after the recent issues they face. Their shop is struggling after a recent reading led to lots of bad publicity....I could see that happening exactly as it went down!
Then on a night out she meets Thayne. Nothing happens except for some very heated kisses and an offer to go back to his room. Karly says yes, but ducks out so when she goes to a new job next day, one arranged very quickly they're both shocked to see each other.

Thayne is a bit of a skeptic but the events that have frightened his staff can't easily be explained away, and when Karly and her sister get to work he cant deny the Inn is being haunted by a young lady called Emily – and She Is Angry. That's the last thing he needs with the opening just a few weeks away.
The sizzle between Karly and Thayne can be felt, its scorching and they have some incredibly heated, erotic encounters. Nether seem able to leave the other alone.
She made me so cross though, blaming Thayne for his past, letting hers dictate her actions. She was all over him one moment and pushing him away the next. Over and over again, no wonder he was getting whiplash.
He can't change his past, its the now and the future that count, and he shouldn't be blamed for things others in Karly's past have done. She was too ready to believe the worst of him even when he'd done nothing or had a good explanation.

I was really hoping more would be made of the Jennifer angle, it was good, but for me could have been deeper,better, more satifying. I love a “good” bad person, a jealous man or woman, they really make a story sometimes.

The suspense, the haunting angle was interesting but like the romance I felt that the issues raised, the problems caused by Emily treated almost lightly , sort of “wow, she's created a heck of a storm. Look at that tree, look at that damage...Ah well, who's for coffee?” Well, it wasn't quite like that ;-) but that's how it felt to me.
Then there's the problems Thayne has with his family, his father, his angst over his brother, not to mention someone else with a grudge against him playing a part in the story.
There was so much going on, so many different story lines that I felt none of them really got treated with the respect they deserved, didn't get the expansion they needed, just a light fluffy kind of treatment.
That's a shame as they were some terrific ideas. If the book had been twice the length ( its just over 3500 kindle locations so pretty short) then those plots could really have been made the most of, and this would have been a five star read for me, but as it is I felt I liked it but nothing really stood out about the book, nothing special.
 
Stars: three and a half, so much potential if either less plots used, with a deeper treatment for them, or longer book that let them really get made the most of.
Still, others will love it as it is, that's the nature of reading, everyone wants something different.

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