Review: The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

5 stars for The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon.

This is a story about..

.. the gifts of sight, of magic, of walking between the worlds, of supernatural and conspiracy theories;

.. a place called the Devil's Hand, or rather, different versions of it but with one common trait - it is an evil place and bad luck follows people who go there;

.. Sara Harrison Shea who is famous for how she died and her secret journals titled Visitors from the Other Side that her niece publishes which read like real-life murder mystery

Beneath it all, it is a story that asks this very question: if you have lost someone you love, will you not give almost anything to have the chance to see them and have them back again?

All in all, The Winter People has all the makings of a blockbuster movie - suspense, mystery, thriller and horror. I am certainly creeped out by the developments of the story - the secrets, the choices, the past, the present and how everything is linked up - even as I feel the suffering and heartbreak for those close to the victims. I will definitely give the theatre a go if this book is ever made into a movie.


Publisher: Anchor
Publication date: 30 Aug 2016

*** Favourite quote 1 ***

..death is not an ending, but a beginning. The dead cross over to the world of the spirits and are surrounding us still.

*** Favourite quote 2 ***

We all do what we think is best. Sometimes we make terrible mistakes, sometimes we do the right thing. Sometimes we never know. We just have to hope.

~ The Winter People
Jennifer McMahon

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West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter, Gertie.

Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara’s farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister, Fawn. Alice has always insisted that they live off the grid, a decision that suddenly proves perilous when Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished without a trace. Searching for clues, she is startled to find a copy of Sara Harrison Shea’s diary hidden beneath the floorboards of her mother’s bedroom.

As Ruthie gets sucked deeper into the mystery of Sara’s fate, she discovers that she’s not the only person who’s desperately looking for someone that they’ve lost. But she may be the only one who can stop history from repeating itself.

*Blurb from author's website*

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