I'LL BE WAITING by Kelley Armstrong

I'll Be Waiting by Kelley Armstrong
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It's been a while since I read a Kelley Armstrong book, so I decided to get stuck into this one.

Nicola Laughton has Cystic Fibrosis but has managed to live well into her thirties. She takes her health seriously, enjoys her programming job, but most of all, she loves her husband Anton. The night he dies in a car crash, her world falls apart, and she's haunted by his final words: “I’ll be waiting for you.”

Well, this turned out to be quite the creepy, dark story. Not just because Nic finds herself totally consumed by the need to use spiritualists and mediums to try and contact Anton, but also because she knows none of them can actually help her communicate with her dead husband. Yet, she keeps falling into the same trap.

Until a professor of parapsychology offers to conduct a séance in a place that mattered to Anton, and some really eerie stuff starts to happen inside the large house. Things that suggest there's a ghost staying with them, and when the undeniable signs of a haunting manifest, Nic starts to hope. But can't stop second guessing everything.

I really enjoyed this ghost story for many reasons: the way the past séance blends so well with Nic's present day problems, how strong and determined Nic is regardless of all the health obstacles in her way, that she doesn't give up on Anton, and I especially liked how so many creepy things happen all at once and she starts to question her own sanity.

The characters are also great because every single one of them is flawed and no one is free of suspicion. Great book!


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