ARA Review by Lacynda Mathes of Jennifer's Secret

[Lacynda Mathes]

[Following is an OnlineBookClub.org ARA Review of the book, Jennifer's Secret.]

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4 out of 5 stars

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Jennifer's Secret by Kathy Madsen is a fun and sexy ghost story. The novel is engaging. The characters are mostly well developed and believable. It's a cozy book, perfect for cool days under a blanket. It's a fun book to read.

Jennifer Shemmer, grieving the deaths of her parents over a short period of time and the end of her marriage thanks to her cold-fish cheating ex, learns that her estranged elderly Aunt Ruth has left her everything. Jennifer, desperate for a change, moves to a new town in a new state to start a new life. As she embraces her new life, she finds herself drawn to the handsome man who had stopped by to offer his condolences upon the passing of her aunt. He's not only handsome, but attentive and charismatic. Meanwhile she starts to notice a presence in her house. She finds among the antiques two of her aunt's diaries from her youth, which sparks Jennifer's search into the identity of the entity haunting her home and how it came to be there. Ted's motives are unclear, and the ghost doesn't seem to like him much.

I rate this book 4 out of 5 stars. I liked the author's writing. The book was well edited. The story was fun. The characters were well developed. However, I felt it went a little long (over 300 pages} and that a key character was added way later than I liked. He didn't get the attention from the author he deserved, and a lot of his arc was revealed in a summarizing dialogue instead of in the action of the novel (again, not getting the attention he deserved). In the end this is a minor criticism, though, as I immediately started reading the second book in the series.

I highly recommend this book to fans of cozy romantic ghost stories.

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