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The Dark Hollow Chronicles #3
The Lord of Blackshire
Book 3 in the Gothic paranormal Young Adult Series!
Readers' praise for The Ghosts of Dark
"I couldn't put it down!"
"Loved this book! Wonderful gothic young adult story with developed characters and exciting plot twists".
In Book Three of the Dark Hollow Chronicles, Sebastian and Hannah return to Blackshire Manor after months of traveling. Deciding to do some good with her fortune, Hannah starts a foundation to help needy children and meets a potential soul-mate in the process, while Sebastian becomes increasingly depressed over Edina’s refusal to marry him. With the help of Hannah’s old nemesis, Barbie D’Angelo, she and Sebastian discover a secret chamber inside the walls of the mansion that yields more terrifying secrets about John Nero. Meanwhile, Sebastian's recklessness turns dangerous, convincing Hannah that her great-grandfather’s diabolical spirit is trying to possess her cousin. She solicits the help of her old friend, William Cypher. But will they be able to stop Nero in time?
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Readers' praise for The Ghosts of Dark
"I couldn't put it down!"
"Loved this book! Wonderful gothic young adult story with developed characters and exciting plot twists".
In Book Three of the Dark Hollow Chronicles, Sebastian and Hannah return to Blackshire Manor after months of traveling. Deciding to do some good with her fortune, Hannah starts a foundation to help needy children and meets a potential soul-mate in the process, while Sebastian becomes increasingly depressed over Edina’s refusal to marry him. With the help of Hannah’s old nemesis, Barbie D’Angelo, she and Sebastian discover a secret chamber inside the walls of the mansion that yields more terrifying secrets about John Nero. Meanwhile, Sebastian's recklessness turns dangerous, convincing Hannah that her great-grandfather’s diabolical spirit is trying to possess her cousin. She solicits the help of her old friend, William Cypher. But will they be able to stop Nero in time?
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244 pages, Paperback
Published January 5, 2019
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R. Saint Claire
33 books245 followersRegina writes adult and young adult fiction, but always with a dark flair. Writing honors include a Watty Award for best horror novel and multiple screenwriting awards, including a Webby Honoree. Regina is also the contributing editor of the bestselling Local Haunts: A HorrorTube Anthology. Find Regina, and her alter-ego Batilda, at her BookTube channel, Regina's Haunted Library, and on her blog RSaintClaire.com.
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October 18, 2020
Unfortunately, I found my interest waning as I began this book. It could have been for any number of reasons: I started it too soon after the previous two, I was already not enjoying the series as a whole, there were issues with it I couldn't quite get past. Now, I wouldn't say this was a bad book. But this is ordinarily a plot I'd enjoy, so I feel that to say it's not a book for me would not be an appropriate justification. As with the previous two books, I just feel that it wasn't executed properly.
There were times where I felt the plot was a little too drawn out, or it skipped around too much. There were several inconsistencies that left me with questions I wasn't interested enough to discover the answers for. At the same time, I felt that the most important parts of the book were rushed. So much led up to this exorcism, and we barely saw any of it. The last quarter of the book glossed over so many scenes, from the exorcism to the visit with Adam in Miami, to smuggling Sebastian out of the country and the potholes that came with that plan. To say nothing of the surprise pregnancy at the end and twist regarding Angel. It would have been better to SEE Hannah discover that she's pregnant, and to watch her go through the different thought processes regarding keeping the child and its consequences.
Speaking of Angel, did we really use the same twist two books in a row? Where Hannah's lover turns out to be the bad guy? Possessed or not, it's more or less the same trope. Hannah's initial relationship with Angel also felt very rushed and kind of forced, like it was only there for this twist to happen. I hated the insta-love angle it took. But some people like those tropes; that's just a personal preference of mine.
Once again, I don't think this book was edited properly. An occasional grammatical mistake is one thing, but editing would have helped with connecting and clarifying all the different pieces of the plot together.
There were good things about the book, of course. The plot, though not executed well, had potential. And I liked that at times it revisited its roots from the first novel. But not much else comes to mind. I will still read the final book in the series. Clearly, despite it not being the best series I've read, I enjoyed some modicum of the story to make it this far. And I'm no stranger to DNF'ing books. So I must be interested in it to some degree. Don't let my review sway you from trying it. This author has potential; I just think her books need a bit more editing before publication.
There were times where I felt the plot was a little too drawn out, or it skipped around too much. There were several inconsistencies that left me with questions I wasn't interested enough to discover the answers for. At the same time, I felt that the most important parts of the book were rushed. So much led up to this exorcism, and we barely saw any of it. The last quarter of the book glossed over so many scenes, from the exorcism to the visit with Adam in Miami, to smuggling Sebastian out of the country and the potholes that came with that plan. To say nothing of the surprise pregnancy at the end and twist regarding Angel. It would have been better to SEE Hannah discover that she's pregnant, and to watch her go through the different thought processes regarding keeping the child and its consequences.
Speaking of Angel, did we really use the same twist two books in a row? Where Hannah's lover turns out to be the bad guy? Possessed or not, it's more or less the same trope. Hannah's initial relationship with Angel also felt very rushed and kind of forced, like it was only there for this twist to happen. I hated the insta-love angle it took. But some people like those tropes; that's just a personal preference of mine.
Once again, I don't think this book was edited properly. An occasional grammatical mistake is one thing, but editing would have helped with connecting and clarifying all the different pieces of the plot together.
There were good things about the book, of course. The plot, though not executed well, had potential. And I liked that at times it revisited its roots from the first novel. But not much else comes to mind. I will still read the final book in the series. Clearly, despite it not being the best series I've read, I enjoyed some modicum of the story to make it this far. And I'm no stranger to DNF'ing books. So I must be interested in it to some degree. Don't let my review sway you from trying it. This author has potential; I just think her books need a bit more editing before publication.
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