Blithe Spirits on the Pumpkin Path

Melissa, a spirit medium better known as Madam Mariska was part of the series “It´s Haunted!”. When the show is cancelled this is not the only problem she is facing. Since some time she lost her ghost-whisper abilities but luckily her younger sister Verity can also see and talk with ghosts. Not willing to be defeated Melissa thinks Rowan Vale is the perfect spot to have a séance on Halloween. When both arrive Verity is supposed to find out if there are any ghost stories. When she tries to contact ghosts at the stone circle close to the village herself, she never assumed the outcome. Can she find out how to fix the consequences? 3,5 star rating so I round up to 4. This is the 5th book of the series. You can read them as standalones but as we have quite a handful of characters it might be a bit overwhelming to have all the characters without further background information. I love the setting in Rowan Vale, all the Ghosts we have there but also all the living. I really love that we read how their friendships and love live develop even so the book is not concentrating on the persons any longer. A wonderful community! For me it was a bit strange that they allow a medium to come to town but then the ghosts are supposed to stay away from her. Anyhow it was a funny idea that the try to tell her that there are no ghosts in town to keep her away from them. The biggest issue I had this time was with the romance part here. This didn´t work for me. Mainly we have Verity thinking about Mia, some texts. That she thinks low about herself that somebody like Mia couldn´t be interested in somebody like here is something I don´t like. For me she was too insecure. So all in all for me there was not really chemistry in the book, I couldn´t feel their connection. For me much better was again the relationship between the ghosts, how they change and what new friendships and loves develop is for me wonderfully done. I loved that we have in this book Reverend Silas Alexander as one of the main one. Getting to know him much better, to understand why he behaves like he does was for me wonderfully written. So again I really enjoyed my time with these ghosts and this is a series I really like to read.