While You Sleep

If you like to be unsettled then this is the book for you. A creepy house with a horrible history, bumps in the night. Was it the past coming home? I won't spoil it for you but I found it a cracking good page turner.

I honestly don't think I've read anything like this book before. It starts off as what you would associate as a ghost story, although still far from any I've ever read. Zoe wants to get away from her life back home and so saves up to spend time in this big, old, beautiful house to paint, to get away from her believed to be cheating husband. I would say you get the usual ghostly goings on, but other than the singing, it is pretty far from. If it was me, I would have legged it from the house at the first sign of anything being amiss, but thankfully the author gave Zoe a reason to have to stay, making it believable for me.

As the plot develops, you don't even know what's going on anymore. There are just so many twists and turns to keep the reader hooked and guessing as to what's going on. You don't even know what's real and what's ghostly hauntings anymore.

This book wouldn't have been the same for me without Edward and Charles - I really connected with both of them and Stephanie did an amazing job with the characterisation of Annag as I seriously hated her!

The ending was a massive shock and far from what I was expecting, including the reason why the young boy went missing before Zoe moved in. But you don't just get one shock, you get a bundle of shocks all at once and I seriously finished this book with my mouth open in shock and if I wasn't so shocked, I probably would have ended it in tears.

The only thing that could have made this book stronger for me was is that I probably would have eased the reader into the hauntings a bit more, rather than have two very big hauntings within Zoe's first night at the house.