Thank you to Flame Tree Press and Netgalley for an early copy in exchange for an honest review.

This was a really good atmospheric creepy read! What started off as a Haunted house story quickly became much more than you bargain for. I will recommend this one to everyone who wants to read a good Halloween fun themed book!

This was a very enjoyable book.

The plot is a little old-school, but it works.

I liked our main character very much. I was confused by a few of the other, but the author gives a very good explanation later that solved that confusion.

You definitely need to have sort of a wistful love for sixties rock and the whole era in general. While before my time, that music has always resonated with me and I found myself a little envious of our characters - at least up until horrific things happen.

A good read!

Catherine Cavendish's "The After-Death of Caroline Rand" is a chilling and mysterious exploration of the paranormal, blended with elements of psychological suspense and historical intrigue. This novel offers a masterfully crafted narrative that draws readers into a world where the boundary between the living and the dead blurs, leaving them captivated and unnerved.

The story is set in both the past and the present, following the parallel lives of two women, Caroline Rand and Alex Devlin. In the late 19th century, Caroline Rand finds herself drawn into a dangerous world of seances and supernatural phenomena, while in the present day, Alex Devlin becomes fascinated with Caroline's history and the eerie connection between their lives. As they each confront dark forces beyond their comprehension, their stories converge, revealing a web of secrets and malevolent spirits.

Catherine Cavendish's storytelling is marked by a palpable sense of foreboding and an eerie atmosphere that pervades the entire narrative. Her ability to evoke a spine-tingling sensation through vivid descriptions and ghostly encounters is one of the book's strongest elements. The historical and contemporary settings are meticulously researched and well-rendered, immersing readers in the time and place.

The characters, particularly Caroline and Alex, are complex and well-developed, with each experiencing their own unique trials and tribulations in their respective timelines. The author explores the impact of the supernatural on their lives and the psychological toll it takes, making for an emotionally resonant reading experience.

The novel's structure, which alternates between past and present, offers a richly layered narrative. It creates a tantalizing sense of mystery as readers gradually uncover the connections between Caroline and Alex, keeping them engaged and curious throughout.

While "The After-Death of Caroline Rand" is a compelling and atmospheric read, some readers may find the pace to be slightly slow, especially in the historical sections, as the author takes time to build tension and atmosphere. Additionally, the story does contain moments of ambiguity and open-ended questions that may leave some readers wanting more closure.

In summary, "The After-Death of Caroline Rand" is a haunting and enigmatic novel that skillfully blends the supernatural with psychological suspense and historical elements. Catherine Cavendish's evocative prose and well-crafted characters make it an excellent choice for those who appreciate atmospheric and eerie tales that blur the lines between the living and the dead. If you're in the mood for a story that will send shivers down your spine and leave you pondering the mysteries of the afterlife, this book is a captivating and enigmatic journey that won't disappoint.

"Secret? Oh, there's no secret. In fact, the answer couldn't be more straightforward and simple. I signed a pact with the devil."
What are you looking for in a horror, because this book has it all and more.
Do you like:
British horror
Ghosts
Gothic fiction
Haunted abbeys
Monsters
Time travel
The mamas and papas
Strong female protagonists
Femme fatale
Amnesia
Helpless heroines
Fake friends
Addiction
Controlling men
Magic of old and new gods
Freaky Friday body switching
And surprisingly it all works!!
It seems like Catherine Cavendish thought to herself when writing this book was how can she make the most unpredictable modern gothic fiction book? Then she used as many horror and gothic fiction tropes as possible one right after the other, creating a narrative that ropes around your brain twisting and knotting up to the point you can't even imagine how it will end. And GUESS What? It really works.
This is one book is one example where less is NOT more. I kept thinking 'oh wow, I knew it was going to be ...wait wtf I didn't expect that'. I loved it. Thank you Flame Tree Press for sending me an e-arc cop of the book through NetGallev.

Original, creepy and highly entertaining. It starts as a haunted house story and brings to weird and terrifying places.
Loved it
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine

You had me at "A chilling, dark fantasy, in the slipstream of Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."

Truthfully, this book has very little in common with OUATIH. They both, however, transport you to the grooviest of times and places: the Hollywood Hills in the late 1960s. But, you aren't always safe and warm when you're in L.A., and sometimes those good vibrations and strawberry fields turn helter skelter.

Alli reluctantly accepts an invitation to a party at a gothic manor that once belonged to Caroline Rand, a singer from the late 60s, whose stardom and life both ended tragically. Is the house haunted or is it controlled by something far more evil than ghosts? Will Alli make it out alive, or is there something worse than death that she should fear?

Hippies and a haunted house? It's an unlikely combination I didn't know I needed. It's funny, the MC says several times that she doesn't do drugs, but through random time jumps and the house's ghostly tricks, there's an almost constant state of psychedelic horror. I loved it. One minute you were partying in Laurel Canyon with (don't call her Mama) Cass Elliot, and, the next you were back in the manor with creepy paintings and corpses that talk. I loved how well the author conveyed the flower power 60s vibe. The flowy tops and dresses. Scents of jasmine and patchouli practically wafted up from the words.

Thank you Netgalley and Flame Tree Press for the opportunity to read and review this book.

5 Stars!

I have become a big Catherine Cavendish fan over the past several years. She has a way of telling a story with a lot of substance to it without ever slowing the narrative down. The more gothic style she uses often leads to stories that require some work to read. Cavendish, however, is able to pull it off with a pace that is closer to a thriller than a gothic novel. I knew The After-Death of Caroline Rand was a must-read book and I dove into it as soon as I could (and will note that I read the book a couple months ago and just recently realized I had not reviewed it).



Allie’s life had taken a sharp turn and left her struggling to find a new path forward. With her future uncertain and her worries mounting, she was surprised when she received an invitation to a weekend party at the estate a childhood friend of hers had just bought. She had not seen Nancy in years, but it seemed like the perfect way for her to escape from the troubles of her life. Sher accepted the invitation and drove to Nancy’s estate, an old monastery that used to be belong to Caroline Rand, a folk singer from the 1960’s who had been friends with many legends of music from that time. Rand has supposedly disappeared from the scene after making her fortune off of one big hit and a series of good investments. Allie soon discovers this is only a small, and only somewhat true, version of Rand’s story. She came to the estate to escape from the troubles of her life. Now that she has arrived, she can only hope to escape from the estate with her life.



Allie soon learns that there is much more to Caroline Rand’s life, and death, than anyone suspected. Her manager had controlled her life from the outset of her career and steered her into a secret society that experimented in the occult. Now, after her death, Caroline has attached herself to Allie and drags her into her secret world. Allie finds herself trying to navigate through the past and the present to unravel the mystery of who Caroline Rand truly was and why she has this strong connection to the woman. But there are forces who do not want this secret revealed and will stop at nothing to keep Caroline’s spirit in the land of the dead, even if it means having Allie join her there.



Based on Cavendish’s earlier works, I was expecting a haunting read when I started The After-Death of Caroline Rand and this is exactly what I found. Much like the music of the 1960’s that is so important to this story, the novel has an almost mind-altering feeling to it so the reader is always left guessing not only what is coming next but if what just happened was real. There is a lot going on in every page of the novel but it is often unclear if it is real or illusion. This is by design so that, along with the jumps in time experienced by Allie, it makes everything seem almost surreal. Cavendish will sometimes let the plot linger in one place long enough for the reader to start feeling a little settled before pulling the rug out from under the story once more. This is high-level storytelling in a novel that is haunting yet somewhat beautiful, even musical, as well.



I have enjoyed every book I have read by Cavendish and she really turns it up a notch in The After-Death of Caroline Rand. There is so much going on in this novel at so many different levels that I keep thinking about it at times a couple months after I finished reading it. This is not just a story about a haunting; it is a truly haunted story. Cavendish writes the stories and the characters to perfection in this one and provides enough backstory and historical touchpoints to make it feel real. The After-Death of Caroline Rand is one of the best ghost stories I have read in a while even though it is not truly a ghost story. It is, in fact, almost impossible to shoehorn this novel into any specific subgenre except that it is very, very good. If you are looking for a novel that will challenge your perceptions and force you to question reality while taking you on a rollercoaster of a ride through time, The After-Death of Caroline Rand is the novel for you. I cannot do anything but give it my highest recommendation.



I would like to thank Flame Tree Press and NetGalley for this review copy. The After-Death of Caroline Rand is available now.

When Ally is invited to her friend Nancy‘s party she hadn’t heard from her in years but was excited to go because Nancy just bought the home of the famous Caroline rant and in honor of the famous previous owner Nancy was having a 60s party. When she arrives little does she know she will see people she knows people she will know and some of the most famous people we all know. Let me stop here because I don’t want to give anything away but I what I will say is if you love a good ghost story and or time slip storyline then you’ll love this hotel California type of story I absolutely dead end at first I will it mitt and say I got a tad bit confused but once I read it again I get it and OMG this is so good all I kept thinking of was the song hotel California and that is the exact vibe I get from this book it seems when we are angry in life we may just take that to the other side! I love this book and highly recommend it if you’re into ghost stories haunted mansions then you definitely love The After Death Of Caroline Rant by Catherine Cavendish I want to thank net galley and flame tree press for my free Ark copy please forgive any mistakes as I am blind and dictate my review.

This was a surprising haunted house novel that involves time travel (of sorts), an evil cult, and characters whose true motives are a mystery.

This book is fiull of action and rarely does a chapter go by without some evil presence making itself known. And the reasons behind it are even more terrifying than the events themselves!
I loved the way ir was written and the plot is is very creative. This is a great gothic haunted house story and I recommend it.

I have no idea how to feel about this book, it's a complete side step to what I am used to with Catherine. It wasn't spooky, in my opinion, but a bit of the mystical and cult. it was intriguing and I couldn't get my head around what the heck was going on. It was also worrying how far the deception and the cult went, but isn't that what we are led to believe in reality with cults?

It is most definitely a mind-bending book! I still don't think I have fully appreciated the intricate details of this book. The threat is palpable at all times, and at the end, well I still feel that threat! It's not over!

I loved the twists and turns in this book, and even though I had an inkling about one, which still shocked me, especially the parent's reaction!!!! The other twists made my jaw drop because I didn't see it happening, but I guess now on reflection, I was completely played like a fiddle!!

I do love the way Catherine tells her stories, and it's no different here. She had me enraptured, all the while trying to figure out what the heck would happen!

Sixties singer Caroline Rand supposedly killed herself in Canonbury Manor. During a weekend house party at the manor, Alli discovers that a great evil infests the building, and a cabal had controlled that evil for centuries. She's now going to feature prominently in Caroline's after-death.

While the reader knows that this is a horror novel, the characters don't realize it until it's much too late. In the meantime, there are odd happenings in the manor, somehow traveling to 1969 to meet the long-dead singers that Caroline had been friendly with while popular, and the creeping shadowy figure claiming Alli's soul as his. The oddities escalate as the weekend goes on, and Alli is in more and more trouble. She's spiritually tied to Caroline and doesn't even know about the cabal until the final third of the book. She tries to move through time or even leave the house, but things make less and less sense for her.

Horror usually means that innocent people are caught up in something bigger and more sinister than them. While sometimes people can fight back, it doesn't always work if they don't really understand what they're up against. Here, we never really get a clear explanation for the cabal or its purpose, other than it's evil and they alter or bypass death. Caroline and Alli are linked and caught in this web, ill-equipped to deal with the impending tragedy.

Thank you NetGalley and Flame Tress Press and Random Things Book Tours for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own

The main heroine Allie joins her old childhood friend Nancy for a 60s theme weekend at Nancy's recently acquired mansion in The After-Death of Caroline Rand. But when she arrives, she realises the weekend is not about that. The estate, which was given to Nancy by her deceased and unidentified grandmother, Caroline Rand, is full with all kinds of crazy. Dream sequences, time travel, spooky monks, and an attic area to give you nightmares are all included.Alli realises that this situation is rather mysterious. Uncertainty surrounds what exactly occurred at the house in the year 2022, in the 1960s, and in Rand's life afterward (prior to her suicide). Answers can be found in both these odd time lapses and in the actions of Alli's almost forgotten friend and her increasingly ominous visitors. Alli has a connection to the late folksinger despite never having met her, and it seems to be stronger than Rand's connection to Nancy, her unrelated granddaughter. Mike, an artist, musician, and lover of the 1960s, is the third guest, and by the time he shows up, Alli realises she's in some kind of a time-pressure situation. Will Nancy's visitors manage to leave the house?

A fantastic written novel.

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The haunted house is a stalwart of horror stories. Strange family history, weird sightings and ghosts are what we expect because we’ve seen it from The Haunting of Hill House to Scooby Doo. But it is always great when a story aims for something a bit different and in Catherine Cavendish’s eerie tale The After-Death of Caroline Rand we get a tale that offers a compelling mystery that has a really effective and unusual approach.

Alli is feeling lost. Her high flying job ceased when the company went into administration and she has slowly been getting bored in her London flat and realising how her social life is non-existent. She is therefore a little desperate when the offer of a sixties themed weekend with an old school friend named Nancy at a stately home is offered and so Alli finds herself in the countryside meeting someone she has not seen since they were teenagers.

But Canonbury Manor has a famous previous owner in the form of 60s singer Caroline Rand, minor star known for one particular song, and who died tragically just a few years ago. Alli and the other guest Ric soon find Nancy has been experiencing strange events every night, ones that now cast Alli under their spell and the mystery of Caroline Rand binds them all together.

I found this a really refreshing haunted house tale as rather than simply the traditional ghosts and bumps in the night the tale has a unsettling fluidity on the form of sudden timeshifts as Alli finds herself transported in space and time to key moments in Caroline’s life.

Cavendish merges the traditional manor with a past with a focus on a recent individual which feels a newer idea. It also allows the story to shift location from a standard English creepy Manor House to 1960s Lauren Canyon in California the home of various famous singers like Mama Cass, The Monkees and Beach Boys and the circle in which Caroline Rand found herself trying to make the big time. I really enjoyed these scenes as we get the feel of the calm before the storm as these artists all party and laugh and yet we know many now face a tragic future which Allie is trying not to reveal to them while she works out what has happened. It neatly foreshadows the darker scenes into come as well as events continue to escalate and get increasingly creeper Alongside this Caroline too seems to know who she is and aware she may be dead too - the after-death the title alludes to is an interesting twist on a traditional haunting.

The story is constantly in flux with the timeshifts warping often without warning and on top of that we find an adversary who seems to be able to possess and create matter in any way they wish. It keeps us on our toes and makes us doubt what we read as to if the events are real or supernatural illusions. The pace gets quicker and quicker and more revelations about Allie’s role in these events hint to more trouble to come.

The finale is dark with sinister sexual overtones but it’s also neatly pulling all the strange threads together and make us review again all the scenes and secrets revealed so far.

The After-Death of Caroline Rand is surprising, ingenious and very atmospheric. A great supernatural tale to listen to with a 60s sidetrack alongside it watch out for the darker shadows. Highly recommended!

We are at the point when my living memory is the stuff of nostalgia, time travel and - for the first time I think - the subject of a time-slip gothic horror novel.Actually it skews slightly before - the Caroline Rand of the title is a British folk singer who briefly slipped into the Laurel Canyon set - so sort of Sandy Denny. She had a big house that she left to her grand-daughter on her (mysterious obv) death and our heroine Alli is an old friend who gets invited to stay. Usual gothic horror tropes apply, weird feelings, dodgy paintings, but from quite an early point Alli starts passing out and turning up at very name-dropping parties in the Canyon (Mama Cass ends up being quite an active character here, not least I assume as she is impossible to slander or libel). WWhat is going on, is Alli more connected than we think and what is going on with the actual death of Caroline Rand?

It steams along at a fair old clip but I found a lot of the mechanics here quite clunky. Its a ghost story at its heart, so therefore there is a point when you have to let the inconsistencies go, but the bouncing around in time and what you could or couldn't do seemed loose. But it belongs in a grand tradition of British rock-star / country house / Satanism tales which the moribund tail end of British horror film in the seventies played with a lot (the Oliver Reed film Blue Blood has a similar female singer as a character though not protagonist). It all gets a bit messy by the end, the stakes being raised increasingly in the interim, though it achieves its pulpy ends satisfactorily.

Book Title: The After-Death of Caroline Rand
Author: Catherine Cavendish
POV: Allie Sinclair
Main Characters: Allie, Nancy, Ric, Mike and Caroline Rand
Location: Canonbury Ducis in England, mostly, and Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles, California

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I thought I’d like this one because of the “haunted castle” or “haunted monastery” type paranormal activity. None of the characters know this about it, except Nancy, before they arrive. They just believe they’re coming for a 60s party. But boy, does things turn for the worse! They find themselves being haunted by a evil they can’t explain and don’t understand. It’s really interesting. Kept my attention and I read it fairly quickly for me 🙂 So if you like paranormal stuff you might like this. To those who wonder about language and sexual content, there is some language, but it’s not really too often, I just skipped over it. Sexual content…There is one part towards the end and I didn’t really understand it, but it’sthere, but it doesn’t go into great detail.
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Catherine Cavendish is an auto-read for me. I typically love her world building and descriptions of settings. This was no exception.

The After-Death of Caroline Rand follows main character, Allie, as she joins her old child-hood friend, Nancy, at her newly acquired estate for a 60’s theme weekend. But once she gets there she realizes that’s not what the weekend is about. There’s all kinds of craziness at the estate, left to Nancy from her unknown and late grandmother, Caroline Rand. There’s dream sequences, time travel, terrifying monks and an attic space that will haunt your nightmares.

My favorite thing about the story was the timelines that fell in the late 60’s. We see Mama Cass, Peter Tork and even John Denver. Lots of 60’s musical references.

Great for fans of slow burn horror and multiple timelines/points of view.

I enjoyed the story but it wasn't one of those books that makes your entire day a waiting game until you can get back to it. It has an interesting time travel element that I enjoyed and I had fun imagining what it would be like to find myself in the middle of a party of famous dead musicians. The plot jumped around a little too much for me and the American-isms dropped in were annoying (cell phone) but, overall, it was an enjoyable read albeit not one I'll be thinking about at all now I've finished it.
Thank you to NetGalley and Flame Tree Press for the ARC.

After reconnecting with her childhood classmate and friend, Allegra "Alli" Sinclair accepts Nancy's surprise offer to come visit for a long weekend. There's going to be a 1960s-themed party at her lavish manor house, celebrating the house's original owner, folksinger Caroline Rand. When Alli arrives, she finds Nancy and one other person—musical act manager Ric—in the massive house. Lots of food, booze, and drugs are on hand to help things along. But there's an undefinable strangeness to the place.

Portraits that occasionally change, shadows that flit about, uncanny energies that seem to coalesce at the 9:00 hour—possibly when Miss Rand hanged herself—and other creepy things occur. These culminate with Alli being thrown backwards in time, finding herself at a party in famed Laurel Canyon in 1968, when hippy culture was at its peak, and celebrities like Rand rubbed shoulders with the likes of Mama Cass, John Denver, and Peter Tork. It's a terrifying experience at first, but ultimately becomes a welcoming one … at least until a presence (who is somehow linked to the Satanic painter, colorful character, and Rand's lover Lucius Hartmann) makes its presence known: "my world, my rules" it proclaims before Alli catapults back to the present. She will return to the dead past several times, and soon discover that it is not the static thing it seems. Her presence may have influence over events there and the people who lived long ago.

There is quite the enigma here, Alli discovers. Just what is happening in the house circa 2022 and what happened back in the 1960s and Rand's subsequent life (leading up to her death by suicide) is shrouded in mystery. Answers lie both in these strange time slips as well as the behavior of Alli's nigh-forgotten friend and her increasingly sinister guests. Although she never met the woman, Alli has some kind of bond with the deceased folksinger, and it seems to be a stronger one than Rand shares with her illegitimate granddaughter Nancy. By the time the third guest arrives—artist, musician, and 60s afficionado Mike—Alli realizes she is caught in a ticking clock scenario of some kind. Can a séance offer further answers, or will it simply open the floodgates to evil forces that thrive on suffering? Will any of Nancy's guests escape the house and its dark secrets and ominous plans?

Catherine Cavendish's The After-Death of Caroline Rand is a lively slice of gothic horror with dashes of time slip science fiction. A supernatural force is present throughout the book, brooding while its plans become steadily more realized. Even though it seems indomitable for much of the novel, the author never lets us lose shreds of hope that her protagonist can somehow undo the doom and gloom that assails her mind and spirit.

However, this is first-and-foremost a horror story, and it has no shortage of atmosphere and ghostly phenomenon. Cavendish's novel has the enjoyable feel of a Hammer Horror film from the period its contemporary characters obsess over, and one can have quite a bit of fun mentally casting actors from that era (e.g., Caroline Munro or David Warner) in some of the ghostly roles. However, the real joy to be found in this book's pages are piecing together the mysteries and trying to figure out what the many different agendas are.

Alli is our viewpoint character, and the suspense does not come from her ignorance, but from her having too much information. The situation is somewhat overwhelming to her at the beginning, and as she explores the past and the present, she gets the perspective both she and the reader can use to make sense of the insensible. Thankfully, she is not an ineffectual heroine. Sure, she is the victim of strange forces that pull her from her own time as well as those that seek to possess her body. However, Alli is also the driving force behind gaining more answers, pushing for the truth even when beset with people who would rather just turn on, tune in, and drop out, letting the strangeness pull them along.

Regular readers of Cavendish's fiction will find some familiar elements, themes and motifs that appear in other selections of the author's oeuvre. There is a creepy portrait and painter not dissimilar to those found in The Nemesis of the Gods trilogy. There is a fascination with supernatural power rising up from the past to continue working its will on the present that we also saw in Dark Observation. There's an ease with slipping into the past, which plagued the protagonist of The Haunting of Henderson Close. There are black secrets and hidden accesses buried within the architecture, upset by new construction, which we find in the aforementioned works as well as several stories in The Crow Witch and Other Conjurings. However, these are not simple retreads of old ideas. Cavendish gives such themes and motifs a fresh spin each time out.

One oddity is how fixated these characters are with an era that's sixty years removed. Nancy, Ric, and Mike are uber fans of the 1960s,ruminating on that period's music, culture, and the Laurel Canyon scene with a kind of geeky exuberance. Alli has some experience, mostly due to her musician parents' passion for that era, but the others are the kind of people that might be fun to chat with for a single lively conversation at a party. Those who share these enthusiasms will linger a while. Those who don't share the enthusiasms will find it best to leave their company, allowing them to pursue their obsessions with each other. There is method behind the madness, however. The hostess and her likeminded guests have a few secrets and agendas of their own relating to the era and its revenants, which comes out over the course of Alli's experiences.

The After-Death of Caroline Rand is an entertaining read, a clever celebration of the impact the past has upon present days as well as a caution to be wary of those who obsess over the past a little too much. Best of all, it's another spooky yarn from the currently reigning queen of gothic horror, Catherine Cavendish.
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A special thanks to NetGalley and Flame Tree Publishing for offering an eARC of the novel in exchange for an honest review.

Social media can be a good thing but also a bad thing. It can put you back in contact with old friends and family but can also be a place were you could fear for your safety and it can be as toxic a place as anywhere.

This book started off with a social media style of gathering and it really intrigued me as would this turn out to be good interaction or bad.

I really enjoy the music that they are talking about as I grew up listening to what we called oldies which is the music from my parents generation which happens to be the 60s and 70s music. I love the atmosphere that the author portrays in this book especially that of the painting of Caroline Rand.

The mansion has the feel of an old time as Adams Family creeptacular feel. It is great since it makes my skin crawl which I do love.

There is humour in this book and while it's not a very funny book but it does have some of the humour that I like throughout the book. It is nice to see it isn't fully serious because those can be very hard to get through at times.

The story is very weird but again that is me all the way. I love the weird and twisted stories and this ticks the weird box and I feel like I am tripping out.

I am loving the parts that deal with the past in the 60s. Having not been born at that point it was like seeing another time and being immersed in the music scene.

Billed as a fantasy/horror book I can see this very easily. The fantasy aspects are more urban style and are fairly minor with almost like a dreamscape mindset for the magic.

The horror aspect also is fairly minor for me even though I do get chills it seems like this is more about the story of who is who in this wonderful mesh and what happened.

Definitely this is my style of read as it just resonated with me. The weird and quirky style of writing as well as the tinges of fantasy and horror just makes everything go together seemlessly.

The book is very strong and definitely is a strong contender for book of the year. It also has made me want more by this author as she has such a great ability to make her concepts come to life.

Allie is at a crossroads when her old friend invites her to a Sixties-themed party at her country house. She thinks it might be fun to escape her troubles for a while, but she soon regrets her decision when she arrives at the old monastery that once belonged to Caroline Rand, a famous singer from the Swinging Sixties. There's something eerie and sinister about the place, and Allie feels like she's being watched by unseen eyes.

This is my first time reading a Catherine Cavendish book, and I was intrigued by the idea of a time-slip novel set in the Sixties. The story alternates between the present day and LA in 1968, where we meet Caroline Rand and some of her famous friends. The plot is fast-paced and full of twists and turns, and I couldn't put it down. Cavendish knows how to create a creepy atmosphere and some gruesome scenes that made me shiver. I also liked how she tied up all the loose ends in the end.

The book also deals with some interesting issues, such as fame, friendship, betrayal and obsession. I liked how Cavendish showed the contrast between the glitz and glamour and the dark side of the music industry in the Sixties, and how Caroline Rand's legacy affects the characters in the present day. The book has a strong sense of place and time, and I felt like I was transported to both eras. The only thing that I was not too fond of was that some of the dialogue sounded a bit forced and unnatural at times, especially when the characters were explaining things to each other. But overall, this was a fun and spooky read that kept me entertained until the end.

Thank you to FlameTree Press and Netgalley for providing this ARC copy for review.