I liked this book a lot more than most people seemed to. I was really interested in the characters and setting, though the story didn't really captivate me until the guests in question arrived. Then it went in a direction I wasn't expecting, and I loved it. However, once the major conflict was resol...
Series: NonePublication Date: May 1, 2012My Rating: 5/5GoodreadsBlurbOne late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of myst...
Such a strange book. I'm not really sure if I liked it or not. The things that happen, it's more like a demon is amongst them egging them not. But it's not. And the pony coming down the steps and the face (you'll have to read it to understand), wasn't very pivotal to me but is in the book.
A group of friends — each with their own worries and cares — gathers for a dinner party, which is interrupted when a group of lower-class travelers arrives, demanding shelter after an unfortunate railroad accident.The children, too, feeling that they were at the end of a line, as children do (for in...
Emerald Torrington is turning twenty, and the house is a mess. Her step-father’s gone out of town to try to take on a loan so they’re not thrown out of their home. Her mother’s a scatter-brained hen. Her brother’s sulks are way past age-appropriate. Her sister’s whimsy at least provides some levity ...
Emerald Torrington just wants to have a nice birthday celebration in her beloved home. But the Torrington is estate is quickly taken over by a group of less than fortunate train crash survivors and one mysterious man, Charles Traversham-Beechers, who also happens to be an old acquaintance of Emerald...
This reminded me a bit of Henry James's book Turning of the Screw. It was a fairly solid ghost story and I enjoyed the time period. It wasn't fabulous, but there were pieces of it that were above average.I did not like that Emerald was originally described as a child (along with Clovis, who is arg...
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