📚 Book Review 📚

I haven’t read a good, old fashioned ghost story for a good few months so I was really keen to start Hear Him Calling. I am now excited to read more!

This story centres around married couple and new parents, Lydia and Kyle. Kyle discovers that he has inherited a house in Wales from his distant grandfather. The London based couple are young, broke and exhausted from looking after their eight month old Jamie so the prospect of owning their own house in a Welsh mountain, surrounded by nature, peace and tranquility is just too good to miss.

The young couple move in but something isn’t quite right. Something is watching them. Something leaves scratches in the wooden plinth or their new kitchen and haunts Lydia’s dreams. Something, or someone from a time long lost.

This is a genuinely scary tale and it gave me a couple of creepy dreams, I can tell you!

Although the ending was a bit abrupt, I really enjoyed reading this and I have since discovered that Carly Reagon has written another book, which I have added to my ever expanding tbr. If you like ghostly, unsettling tales then this is definitely for you. I can’t wait to read another from this author 👻

I’d like to thank Little Brown Book Group, NetGalley and the author for the arc and the fantastic opportunity, in exchange for my honest feedback 😊

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This was excellent.

A genuinely creepy story set within the deep dark beauty of Wales where something dangerous lurks behind the gorgeous scenery.

The characters are beautifully relatable and the writing is wonderful, creating a disturbing and distinctive feel to the narrative.

It made me dream vividly and the ending is one that will keep creeping into your mind. I thoroughly enjoyed this, it has everything you want from a tale of the supernatural.

High recommend.

Omg! This is the best book I’ve read for a long time, I really couldn’t put it down until I’d finished it. A really creepy story as well as some horrifying parts that were hard to read but crucial to the story. Excellently written. I’d highly recommend this book.

When Kyle and Lydia inherit an old tower in the Welsh countryside, it seems like a new start for them and their baby son, away from the stresses of London.

However, the locals are unwelcoming, the mountain looms over them, and their nearest neighbours are a standoffish farmer and an abandoned white cottage.

Lydia feels like someone is watching them from the mountain and even within the house. Then there’s the dark stain and scratches in the kitchen, the smells and odd shadows, and the sense that an ominous presence is just behind her.

As Kyle falls under the spell of the tower and Lydia begins to unravel the story of the white cottage, will she get her family away before it’s too late?

A brilliant gothic tale of obsession, haunting and revenge.

I also strongly recommend Reagon’s first novel ‘The Toll House’ (2022).

This drew breath from my lungs in some parts, really scary. An unbelievably good tale part historical fiction, part thriller. I was encapsulated within the story jumping at the chills and horrors spilling forth. Frightenly good read.

This felt like an inversion to a traditional horror movie to me, something calling them outside to be let in and was so much more exciting, inventive and creepy overall, I loved the secluded Welsh location too it really added to the creepiness.