The Mirror

What bothers me about this book is that the ONLY antagonist is the witchy ghost. The rest of the cast, quite a large cast, are all these seemingly perfect people with perfect understanding of each other's personality. Perfectly respectful towards each other. There are no tension at all. No character development. No real relationship building because everyone gets along and likes each other from the the start. Nora does a great job at giving each a unique personality. But IRL No One gets along this great! It would be a perfect world if everyone had so much understanding, compassion and willingness to give each other space to be exactly who they want to be without any tension or irritation. At this point I'm almost finished and I'm almost considering to DNF because it's just repetitive routine, no tension, no climax between characters. Even the bad ghost is getting very predictable... The whole plot could have been summarised into a novella. It's just a money grab .

The crooks of this story are a woman called Sonya has inherited a haunted mansion in Poole's Bay, Maine. She has moved from her home in Boston, into this 'interesting' property with her best friend Cleo. As part of this unexpected, life changing move, she has also connected with her cousin Owen, that she knew nothing about and has a new boyfriend called Trey, a friend of Owens. This wonderful foursome bring with them 3 dogs Yoda, Jones and Mookie and eventually a cat Pye.

Second book in this triology, continuing the various hauntings with the vicious ghost Hester Dobbs still causing chaos for everyone living there. Mostly it's about the lives of Sonya and her best friend Cleo, who lives in the manor with her, and their slow building relationships with Trey (Sonya's boyfriend) and Owen (Sonya's cousin and Cleo's boyfriend - eventually!). We also find out more about the various murdered brides and why certain events happened.