6/10, this story was mostly good right up until the ending where it just ruined it for me and it's such a shame that it did and if it wasn't for that I actually would've enjoyed this one and gave it a higher rating but it didn't turn out this way. It starts off with Ivy moving to Scotland much to her disagreement and she now lives in a castle away from everyone else where she meets this cold isolated figure named Elizabeth which sounds familiar by the way, anyways she and Ivy don't get along at first and then she meets some random ghost named Lucas and she develops an attraction with him but for some reason he reveals the secrets of the castle like the history and most importantly a ring which will come into play later on in the plot. Towards the latter half Ivy wonders about those secrets and especially the last one and wonders why Elizabeth is such a cold person all of the time but then she notices a ring she wore on her finger and it was the same one that Lucas mentioned and she took it off and oh wow, Elizabeth is all better now and the story just ends so conveniently like that and don't get me started on the writing style since it felt so rushed and non descriptive. If you like paranormal books try Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo rather than this. ( )

This was a cute, totally cheesy, fairytale romance worthy of a Disney movie. The girls will love it! ( )

Amazon lists the target audience for this book as in the 12 and up range. I can see some points where it would be more to the younger end of that range, and some where it would reach to the older end of that range.

Let's talk about that cover. It is kind of eerie, creepy like, isn't it? But The blue eyes on Ivy, they reach right into the heart of the reader, touching on your soul and grabbing ahold of you.

This book was immediately fascinating to me. A book about an American girl who is transplanted to Scotland having to change her whole life? Kind of reminded me in a way of The Princess Diaries, to a point. But then, a castle that seems to be haunted, and the spirit boy who becomes somewhat of a forbidden love? I loved it.

I also have to say, kudos to the author for the Harry Potter references. I found those amusing.

The one thing I do have to say, though, is that the ending felt, well, rushed a bit to me. It felt like she needed to resolve it so that it didn't end up needing to be a series or require a sequel. But I could easily have seen the events dragged out a bit more and this book turned into more than just a stand alone. Don't get me wrong. I love a good stand alone novel every once in a while, too. But it felt like the resolution was, just, missing something. To this reader, it felt like the author was saying, "Okay, we are at almost 300 pages already, so let's get this wrapped up and move on." I think the ending fits, it just could have been, well, more.

For fans of the paranormal, or if you just need a good, sweet ghost story with a touch of romance, you may just enjoy this novel and it would be totally worth picking up. ( )

Amazon lists the target audience for this book as in the 12 and up range. I can see some points where it would be more to the younger end of that range, and some where it would reach to the older end of that range.

Let's talk about that cover. It is kind of eerie, creepy like, isn't it? But The blue eyes on Ivy, they reach right into the heart of the reader, touching on your soul and grabbing ahold of you.

This book was immediately fascinating to me. A book about an American girl who is transplanted to Scotland having to change her whole life? Kind of reminded me in a way of The Princess Diaries, to a point. But then, a castle that seems to be haunted, and the spirit boy who becomes somewhat of a forbidden love? I loved it.

I also have to say, kudos to the author for the Harry Potter references. I found those amusing.

The one thing I do have to say, though, is that the ending felt, well, rushed a bit to me. It felt like she needed to resolve it so that it didn't end up needing to be a series or require a sequel. But I could easily have seen the events dragged out a bit more and this book turned into more than just a stand alone. Don't get me wrong. I love a good stand alone novel every once in a while, too. But it felt like the resolution was, just, missing something. To this reader, it felt like the author was saying, "Okay, we are at almost 300 pages already, so let's get this wrapped up and move on." I think the ending fits, it just could have been, well, more.

For fans of the paranormal, or if you just need a good, sweet ghost story with a touch of romance, you may just enjoy this novel and it would be totally worth picking up. ( )

Sixteen-year-old Ivy’s mom has just married a Scottish Laird (Lord), and moved her from South Carolina to an ancient, forbidding castle in the Scottish Highlands. From her first moment, Ivy senses a dark, foreboding presence in the castle, evidenced by her new great-grandmother’s dark, evil looks and behavior.

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