{"id":12355,"date":"2017-01-25T14:56:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T20:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/?p=12355"},"modified":"2021-10-30T21:44:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T02:44:33","slug":"review-of-restless-spirits-spirits-1-by-jordan-l-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/review-of-restless-spirits-spirits-1-by-jordan-l-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review of Restless Spirits (Spirits #1), by Jordan L. Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It doesn’t happen often, but occasionally I find a book on my kindle or computer and have no memory of where I got it. Did I buy it and delete the receipt? Did I get it as an Amazon freebie or from Instafreebie? No idea. And Jordan L. Hawk<\/a>‘s Restless Spirits<\/a>\u00a0was one of those books, right up until I went to add the link to her blog to this post and saw that you can get a copy of the book when you sign up for her newsletter. Mystery solved. That is where I got this book! You could do the same.<\/p>\n

Description from Goodreads:<\/strong>
\nAfter losing the family fortune to a fraudulent psychic, inventor Henry Strauss is determined to bring the otherworld under control through the application of science. All he needs is a genuine haunting to prove his Electro-S\u00e9ance will work. A letter from wealthy industrialist Dominic Gladfield seems the answer to his prayers. Gladfield\u2019s proposition: a contest pitting science against spiritualism, with a hefty prize for the winner.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The contest takes Henry to Reyhome Castle, the site of a series of brutal murders decades earlier. There he meets his rival for the prize, the dangerously appealing Vincent Night. Vincent is handsome, charming\u2026and determined to get Henry into bed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Henry can\u2019t afford to fall for a spirit medium, let alone the competition. But nothing in the haunted mansion is quite as it seems, and soon winning the contest is the least of Henry\u2019s concerns.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

For the evil stalking the halls of Reyhome Castle wants to claim not just Henry and Vincent\u2019s lives, but their very souls.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Review:<\/strong>
\nAnother complete success from Jordan L. Hawk. I don’t even know when I bought this book (or maybe picked it up free), no idea. I was just scrolling through my Kindle, saw it and was like, “Oh, a Hawk book. Gotta read that right now.” So, I did and I was happy.<\/p>\n

The ghost story is scary, maybe not overly original, but scary. The characters are engaging and I loved the diversity of the cast. Did it feel a little forced? Maybe a bit, I guessed Lizzie’s secret long before it was revealed, for example. But I was still too thrilled to find it to really care. There were not a lot of characters in general and it’s a historical, so the book is a little limited, but one of the main characters is Native American, another Black, a third with secret I won’t spoil, of course two are gay and notably, the book does not gloss over the importance and difficulties of these aspects of their character in the time period.<\/p>\n

I did think the final battle felt a little abrupt and the villain obvious. But those are small quibbles with a book that I generally really enjoyed. The writing and editing are marvelous and I can’t wait to pick up the next one in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It doesn’t happen often, but occasionally I find a book on my kindle or computer and have no memory of where I got it. Did I buy it and delete the receipt? Did I get it as an Amazon freebie or from Instafreebie? No idea. And Jordan L. Hawk‘s Restless Spirits\u00a0was one of those books, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[278,300,72,1200,466,90,356,2248],"class_list":["post-12355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booksbook-review","tag-diverseromancebingo","tag-readdiverse2017","tag-ghosts","tag-jordan-l-hawk","tag-lgbtq","tag-mm","tag-m-m-romance","tag-widdershins-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19938,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12355\/revisions\/19938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}