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The Vanishing

Wendy Webb

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Apr 18, 2020 Pam rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, audio-book, wisconsin, 2020-books-read

AUTHOR Webb, Wendy
TITLE The Vanishing
DATE READ 04/17/20
RATING 4/B
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GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Fiction/2014/audio - libby/ 8 hr 41 min
SERIES/STAND-ALONE SA
CHALLENGE Good Reads 2020 Reading Goal 68/120;
GROUP READ
TIME/PLACE 2014/WI
CHARACTERS Julia Bishop/personal asst to Amaris, Adrian Sinclair/son of Amaris, Amaris Sinclair/famous horror author
COMMENTS I loved the gothic romantic suspense books back in the day -- Victoria Holt, Phyllis Whitney, etc., and it is nice to see ...more

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Jan 25, 2016 Agatha Donkar Lund rated it liked it

Shelves: horror, fiction, 2016

This was frustrating -- 80% genuinely terrifying, 20% kind of phoned in resolution. I wanted the ending to be as terrifying as the first 3/4s were, and it just wasn't. ...more

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Jan 04, 2014 Kay Green rated it liked it

Shelves: ghost-stories-afterlife

Sweet little ghost story - great mansion for the setting in the wilds of Minnesota.
Lots of library scenes with candles, voices and mysteries. Three dogs who are so endearing, and the usual pictures that come to life.
Sort of the literary equivalent of the Haunted Mansion ride in DisneyWorld but i thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Now am I ready for a more serious ghost story? Maybe soon. I wonder what the most classic Ghost novel is.

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