Haunted Memories - WRI Fright Fest 2015 Reviews: The Ghost Files by Apryl Baker

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The Ghost Files by Apryl Baker

Pages: 211
Publisher: Limitless Publishing
Source: Purchased from Amazon
Rating: ☆☆☆☆

Synopsis:

Cherry blossom lipstick: check 
Smokey eyes: check 
Skinny jeans: check
Dead kid in the mirror: check 

For sixteen year old Mattie Hathaway, this is her normal everyday routine. She’s been able to see ghosts since her mother tried to murder her when she was five years old. No way does she want anyone to know she can talk to spooks. Being a foster kid is hard enough without being labeled a freak too. 

Normally, she just ignores the ghosts and they go away. That is until she see’s the ghost of her foster sister… Sally. 

Everyone thinks Sally’s just another runaway, but Mattie knows the truth—she’s dead. Murdered. Mattie feels like she has to help Sally, but she can’t do it alone. Against her better judgment, she teams up with a young policeman, Officer Dan, and together they set out to discover the real truth behind Sally’s disappearance. 

Only to find out she’s dealing with a much bigger problem, a serial killer, and she may be the next victim… 

Will Mattie be able to find out the truth before the killer finds her?

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About the Author
So who am I? Well, I'm the crazy girl with an imagination that never shuts up. I LOVE scary movies. My friend Chazz laughs at me when I scare myself watching them and tells me to stop watching them, but who doesn't love to get scared? I grew up in a small town nestled in the southern mountains of West Virginia where I spent days roaming around in the woods, climbing trees, and causing general mayhem. Nights I would stay up reading Nancy Drew by flashlight under the covers until my parents yelled at me to go to sleep.

Growing up in a small town, I learned a lot of values and morals, I also learned parents have spies everywhere and there's always someone to tell your mama you were seen kissing a particular boy on a particular day just a little too long. So when you get grounded, what is there left to do? Read! My Aunt Jo gave me my first real romance novel. It was a romance titled "Lord Margrave's Deception." I remember it fondly. But I also learned I had a deep and abiding love of mysteries and anything paranormal. As I grew up, I started to write just that and would entertain my friends with stories featuring them as main characters.

Now, I live Huntersville, NC where I entertain my niece and nephew and watch the cats get teased by the birds and laugh myself silly when they swoop down and then dive back up just out of reach. The cats start yelling something fierce...lol. 

I love books, I love writing books, and I love entertaining people with my silly stories.

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The Calling - WRI Fright Fest 2015 Reviews: Rushed by Brian Harmon

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Rushed by Brian Harmon

Pages: 388
Publisher: Author Published
Source: Purchased from Amazon
Rating: ☆☆

Synopsis:

Eric can't remember the recurring dream that keeps waking him in the middle of the night with an overwhelming urge to leave, yet he spends each day feeling as if he desperately needs to be somewhere. With no idea how to cure himself of this odd new compulsion, he decides to let it take its course and go for a drive, hoping that once he proves to himself that there is nowhere to go, he can return to his normal life. Instead, he finds himself hurled headlong into a nightmare adventure across a fractured Wisconsin as the dream reveals itself one heart-pounding detail at a time.

Horror, science fiction, dark fantasy.

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This book did anything but rush. I didn't find this novel particularly scary. There were moments when the reader is supposed ti be all creeped out but it did not do it for me. Also it is a slow paced read. The entire time Eric is following this pull he has to get to an unknown destination during which he has these strange encounters. He is in danger during this while quest.

Then at end he finds what he needed to find bu we as readers are still left in the dark about what it was he found. We only know that it has happened before and that it has something to do with God. I mean all that time spent reading and I don't get to know the secret? What the...! Very disappointed.

About the Author

Brian Harmon is a writer of horror fiction, suspense and dark adventure. He grew up in Missouri and currently lives in Southern Wisconsin with his wife, Guinevere, and their two children.

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Digging Up Truths - WRI Fright Fest 2015 Reviews: Better Left Buried by Belinda Frisch

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Better Left Buried by Belinda Firsch
Pages: 386
Publisher: Author self published
Source: Purchased from Amazon
Rating: ☆☆☆

Synopsis
A spirit board, a murder, and a cold case that refuses to stay hidden. 

A forbidden friendship with deep family roots, one father abandons his daughter while another goes missing, and the mysterious connection between the Wolcotts and the Millers sets seventeen-year-old Harmony Wolcott on a path to rediscover the truth behind a night no one is willing to talk about. 

Together with her best friend Brea Miller, Harmony investigates her childhood, starting with a street address provided by a spirit board. Skeptical about the information's authenticity, Harmony reluctantly follows the lead, going deeper into her past with each dangerous turn as she researches the Maple Avenue residence. The dilapidated house seems like something from another lifetime, a place of mixed memories where Harmony and Brea's friendship had started, and where their families' lives had intersected years earlier. What happened there might well be the town of Reston's best kept secret. 

A tragic discovery threatens to unravel Harmony's already turbulent life, bringing those she loves down with her and proving with devastating consequences that sometimes the past is better left buried.

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This turned out to be a good book. I thought this was going to be a cheesy read but what a pleasant surprise. The story revolves around Harmony and Brea. Brea is the good girl considered a bit of a weirdo definitively not part of the popular crowd. Harmony is for sure the outcast. She was dealt a bad hand before birth.

Harmony starts to have a reoccurring incident that happens at 2:34. Whatever it is asks for help but harms her while doing so. In an attempt to find out what is going on she and Brea tries to summon whatever it is. It works but now Brea is caught up in this mess too.

Brea family has been trying to keep her away from Harmony for years. Now that things have become strange she goes looking to find out just what is the deal between her parents and Harmony's. The answer isn't as bad as she thought but still a f-ed up for Harmony. In the end, tragedy strikes leaving all involved to wonder what more could have been done.

I really liked both characters but Harmony pulls at your heart. Yes she could have turned out a different way. She could have looked at her situation with the determination of wanting to beat it. But let's face it. We hear those stories because people who do that I don't think is the norm. But I think most people get lost in the misery. Then if the person can find something to live for he/she will probably beginning the process of living again. But if the person has lost all hope, when death has an allure than life can't match, he/she will continue to fall into the darkness.

Harmony was destined for darkness from before birth. I wanted Harmony to find the light but I wasn't going to be surprised if things didn't turn out well for her. I found Brea mother highly annoying. I am sorry but it's one thing not to want your daughter to hang around a bad crowd, it's quite another to blame Harmony for her lot in life. Instead of criticizing why didn't she offer her help and the love she knew she wasn't getting from her mother. I know that wasn't her job but it would have been more productive than adding to this girl feeling of unworthiness.

So as you can tell I liked the book. It grabbed me and didn't let go. I didn't rate it higher as it is considered a horror read but I didn't find it all that spooky. Other than that...Happy Reading!

About the Author

After the author's fifteen years of working in health care, Belinda Frisch's stories can't help being medicine influenced. A writer of dark tales in the horror, mystery, and thriller genres, Belinda tells the stories she'd like to read. Her fiction has appeared in Shroud magazine, Dabblestone Horror, and Tales of the Zombie War. She is the author of Cure, Afterbirth, Fatal Reaction, Better Left Buried, and The Missing Year. She resides in upstate New York with her husband and a small menagerie of beloved animals.

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