The Girl Who Ignored Ghosts by K C Tansley has been on my TBR shelf since 2015, so I was very excited when I got the chance to review it, and Book II, The Girl Who Saved Ghosts, in The Unbelievables series.
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MY REVIEW
Mystery and intrigue, love and magic. Will she lose herself before she finds the answers that could save them all? Kat Preston will have to travel back in time to find out.
To save herself, Kat Preston had to become an Unbeliever. Now, in college, she surrounds herself with others, including her best friend, Morgan, who helps keep the ghosts at bay.
The Unbelievers makes me think of Ghost Whisperer. I watched the TV show all the time, and can sometimes catch reruns even today.
These ghosts call themselves the Unbelievables. Good ones. Bad ones. And all those in between.
Kat and her friends are going to Castle Creighton for a school research project. She is worried because it’s like stepping out of the frying pan and into the fire. They will be researching the murder and curse in the Radcliffe family.
I was quickly caught up in this ghostly mystery. The Girl Who Ignored Ghosts has all you need for a great ghost story, a castle, a curse, some romance and possession, travel to the past, and danger and intrigue. There are many suspects and the mystery was harder to solve that I thought it would be.
4 Stars
GOODREADS BLURB
Kat Preston doesn’t believe in ghosts. Not because she’s never seen one, but because she saw one too many. Refusing to believe is the only way to protect herself from the ghost that tried to steal her life. Kat’s disbelief keeps her safe until her junior year at McTernan Academy, when a research project for an eccentric teacher takes her to a tiny, private island off the coast of Connecticut.
The site of a grisly mystery, the Isle of Acacia is no place for a girl who ignores ghosts, but the ghosts leave Kat little choice. Accompanied by her research partner, Evan Kingsley, she investigates the disappearance of Cassie Mallory and Sebastian Radcliffe on their wedding night in 1886. Evan’s scientific approach to everything leaves Kat on her own to confront a host of unbelievables: ancestral curses, powerful spells, and her strange connection to the ghosts that haunt Castle Creighton.
But that’s all before Kat’s yanked through a magic portal and Evan follows her. When the two of them awaken 129 years in the past with their souls trapped inside the bodies of two wedding guests, everything changes. Together, Kat and Evan race to stop the wedding-night murders and find a way back to their own time—and their own bodies—before their souls slip away forever.
ABOUT THE K C TANSLEY
K.C Tansley lives with her warrior lapdog, Emerson, and two quirky golden retrievers on a hill somewhere in Connecticut. She tends to believe in the unbelievables—spells, ghosts, time travel—and writes about them.
Never one to say no to a road trip, she’s climbed the Great Wall twice, hopped on the Sound of Music tour in Salzburg, and danced the night away in the dunes of Cape Hatteras. She loves the ocean and hates the sun, which makes for interesting beach days. The Girl Who Ignored Ghosts is the first book in her YA time-travel murder mystery series.
As Kourtney Heintz, she also writes award winning cross-genre fiction for adults.
This sounds like a good series, Sherry. Thanks for sharing your review.
My pleasure, Laura.
I loved the Ghost Whisperer series too and still long for an antique store of my very own except mine would be filled with mostly books! This sounds like a good read, glad you enjoyed it 🙂
I loved the Ghost Whisperer series too and still long for an antique store of my very own except mine would be filled with mostly books! This sounds like a good read, glad you enjoyed it 🙂
My store would probably be the same. I still catch some reruns every once in a while.
Thanks for this terrific review! Ghost Whisperer is one of my favorite shows and definitely had an influence on my writing.
My pleasure, Kourtney. I still watch reruns of Ghost Whisperer when they come my way.
Sounds fun. I love she has glasses. (and loved Ghost Whisperer, too)
Not all of us can have perfect vision, and it adds a sense of reality to a character when an author makes them less than perfect.
I don’t know why I’ve waited so long to read this one. It sounds like great fun.
It is. Sometimes books get lost in the shuffle.
This sounds good, and go you for pulling one off your tbr pile!
Thanks Kim. I don’t do that often enough. That pile is a mountain. LOL