Book Title: Callie
Author: Bill Thompson
Publisher: Ascendente Books
Publisher Date: October 31, 2020 (280 Pages, Paperback)
Genres: Paranormal, Ghosts, Mystery, Murder, Historical Fiction, Horror, Thriller, Civil war
Series: The Bayou Hauntings #1
Deep in the bayous of southern Louisiana, an ancient mansion called Beau
Rivage sits empty and abandoned. Arceneaux family members built the
house and lived there for two hundred years. The house is inherited by
Callie Pilantro, a down-on-her-luck granddaughter of Juliet Arceneaux,
its most recent owner who died there a few months ago.
Strange
things begin to unravel as a mysterious child appears and disappears at
will inside the house, Callie finds a family graveyard in the woods that
creates more questions than answers, and she discovers that even the
walls of the mansion hold long-forgotten secrets.
Confronted by
strange events she doesn’t understand and a little girl who speaks in
riddles, Callie struggles to find the secrets of Beau Rivage even as
someone is determined to keep her from learning them.
The Bayou
Hauntings - Callie will keep readers guessing as they follow the new owner
of the Civil War plantation home until everything comes into focus one
eerie night. Will it be too late for Callie?
Declaimer:
I received a complimentary copy of this book from SMITH PUBLICITY, INC
and was under no obligation to write a positive or negative review of
this book. It my honest review.
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Add To: GoodreadsCallie is a good Halloween ghost storybook. If you are looking for ghosts and some secrets, this book by Bill Thompson is a good one. It is the first one in the series of “
The Bayou Hauntings.” It all starts once a granddaughter comes for the reading of a will? This book is good, but it rates it 4.5 stars or Moons as it is not that ghostly.
What did Callie end up getting from her grandfather? What does her Uncle Willard want that he keeps trying to keep Callie leaving? Do we meet a little girl that comes and goes at her own will? Who could that be?
I feel this story is slow-moving and not all that ghostly until a little girl shows up, and it is stormy, making it more horror. It is mild in horror when the girl comes and goes. Callie seems confused with the riddles. I was not all scared of this ghost with the puzzles. It seems to be my mystery and secret, revealing more towards the end other than through most of the book.
Callie’s friend Mark seems more convincing and seems to have a plan, but we do not know until the little girl and Mark start making mistakes. Callie seems to catch on. Are Willard and Mark working together to get rid of Callie?
