My review of She Sees Ghosts―The Story of a Woman Who Rescues Lost Souls (Part of the Adirondack Spirit Series) By David Fitz-Gerald #HistoricalFiction #Supernatural #CoffeePotBookClub @AuthorDAVIDFG @maryanneyarde

 

She Sees Ghosts―The Story of a Woman Who Rescues Lost Souls
(Part of the Adirondack Spirit Series)
By David Fitz-Gerald

A blazing fire killed her family and devoured her home. A vengeful demon haunted her. Ghosts of the Revolutionary War needed help that only she could provide. A young woman languished, desperate to survive, and teetered on the edge of sanity.

Mehitable grew up in a freshly tamed town, carved from the primeval forest. Family, friends, and working at the mercantile filled her days and warmed her heart. For Mehitable, life was simple and safe, until tragedy struck. When her family perished in their burning home, she retreated into a world of her own making.

As a young girl, she had seen glimmers, glimpses, and flickers of the spirit world. She closed her eyes. She turned her back. She ignored the apparitions that she never spoke of, desperately hoping they would leave her in peace. She was mistaken.

Grief-stricken, Mehitable withdrew from the human world. Ghosts were everywhere. They became bolder. She could no longer turn her back on the spirit world. Her friends feared for her survival. Nobody understood her. She would have to find her own way.

Fans of TV’s Ghost Whisperer and Long Island Medium will especially love She Sees Ghosts. This historical novel features memorable characters and delivers bone-tingling, spine chilling goosebumps. It stands on its own and it is the next installment in the Adirondack Spirit Series by the award-winning author of Wanders Far―An Unlikely Hero’s Journey. David Fitz-Gerald delivers a historical novel with a bittersweet ending that you won’t see coming.

Would she save the spirits’ souls, or would they save her? Only time would tell.

Publication Date: October 25, 2020 

Publisher: Outskirts Press

Page Length: 270 pages

Genre Historical/Supernatural

MY THOUGHTS!

As time passes and the town gets ready to celebrate the coming of a new century, Mehitable is getting ready to celebrate her sixteenth birthday. Mehitable celebrates alongside the town, but a tragic fire leads to the loss of her family, leaving Mehitable with her virginal, a few animals, and a demon who visits her nightly…

This book took me on a journey as Mehitable struggles after the death of her family and with the ghosts that she glimpses as she goes about her day-to-day life. Through the ghosts, we learn about the battles fought, whether they were won or lost, for who better to tell stories of times long past than those who lived and died there? Mehitable is a powerful young woman, both desperate for and trying to avoid falling in love. Her ideal man would be tough to find if he weren’t married to her best friend.

Mehitable and Polly grew up together, and there was a joke once that Reuben should marry both of them. Despite marrying Polly rather than Mehitable, there are little to no hard feelings. Simply refusing to sleep in a house, as her family were when they died, Mehitable moves into Polly and Reuben’s barn, sleeping amongst the sheep. Seeing how the ghosts appear in Mehitable’s life as she goes about her chores was fascinating. There were definitely some interesting characters – ghosts who were just too pleased to be telling someone about their life story, while there were some who just wanted to make sure their families were okay.

The story perfectly depicted how a town can start from nothing and grow to fruition, how it can start with a small clearing and the idea for a house and become a thriving community. I felt like I was watching the place develop in front of my eyes as I read. It was vastly entertaining to watch the growth of the town with each new family that moved in and each child that was born.

The horrors that Mehitable faces, the loss of her entire family and the sleepless nights as she is haunted, are faced so very bravely by the gentle soul that Mehitable has, only wanting a life of peace and happiness. Her kindness to everyone she meets, even if they don’t return the simple gesture of greeting her as they pass, made me care greatly for her and I felt incredibly sorry for her as she tries to cope with the abuse of the demon. Mehitable is such an incredible friend to Polly and she returns the gesture, the bond between the two unbreakable as they live like sisters, baking and gardening together and sharing secrets that they would never tell anyone else. Their friendship was beautiful to read about and I felt the joy and losses alongside them as they navigated their way through life.

From watching the growth of a new town, the start of a new family and ghosts who may or may not even know that they are dead, She Sees Ghosts is a story of creation and destruction, birth and death, joy and sorrow.

I Highly Recommend.

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David Fitz-Gerald

David Fitz-Gerald writes fiction that is grounded in history and soars with the spirits. Dave enjoys getting lost in the settings he imagines and spending time with the characters he creates. Writing historical fiction is like making paintings of the past. He loves to weave fact and fiction together, stirring in action, adventure, romance, and a heavy dose of the supernatural with the hope of transporting the reader to another time and place. He is an Adirondack 46-er, which means that he has hiked all of the highest peaks in New York State, so it should not be surprising when Dave attempts to glorify hikers as swashbuckling superheroes in his writing. She Sees Ghosts―A Story of a Woman Who Rescues Lost Souls is the next installment in the Adirondack Spirit Series.

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