THE HAUNTING OF BEACON HILL Book Review

The Haunting of Beacon Hill (book 1 in The Beckoning Dead series) by Ambrose Ibsen, eBook, 239 pages

Synopsis from GoodReads: Sadie has a gift. And she'll do anything to keep from using it. At sixteen, Sadie Young had a brush with death, and as a result she became more sensitive to the supernatural. Rather than embrace this gift, she spent years running from it, and from the darkness that once preyed upon her.

Now twenty-five and working as a librarian, Sadie is called upon by a desperate family friend to look into a strange series of events. A teenaged girl has entered a reputedly haunted house in town and has gone mad. Committed, the girl attempts suicide and claims to be terrorized at all hours by a horrific specter known as “Mother Maggot”.

Despite having subdued her gift for the past nine years, Sadie wishes to assist the girl and reticently agrees to visit the site of the haunting. But upon entering the house on Beacon Hill, she discovers that Mother Maggot isn't merely a figment of a disturbed teen's imagination...

BOOK REVIEW: I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. I personally enjoyed the spooky story aspect. This is something that I would recommend to anyone who enjoys a good ghost story. It gives you the creeps but didn't make me lose any sleep. The only thing that I can't seem to get over is that they know Mother Maggot was seen in a mirror in a room with a broken window on the first floor. Why not just walk around the outside of the house until you find a broken window with a mirror in the room? Why terrorize yourself and walk through the spooky, pitch black house?

I did listen to this book in 2022 and want to listen to it again and will update this review to include the audiobook review as well when the time comes.

5/5 Stars