Ghost Gifts is an enjoyable romance/mystery that’s long on mystery and short on romance.
Aubrey Ellis, the stories main character, was born with a “special gift”. Her gift is that she can communicate with the dead or, more precisely, they can communicate with her. This makes her an ideal conduit to pass on messages (good or bad) from the dead.
Unfortunately for Aubrey, she has little control over when ghosts decide to use her “gift” or when they leave her physical “gifts” to help remind her of their visit and message.
Hiding her gift as best she can, Aubrey takes a job as a home and garden reporter and settles in a small New England town. However, the discovery of a body from a decades old murder, drags her into investigating and reporting on the cases new evidence. Aside from being concerned that the case will expose her unusual abilities.
Making matters worse, she is assigned to assist Levi St John, a crusty investigative reporter brought in to determine and report on who really committed the murder. Levi St. John, who she has butted heads with before and who she discovers has his own set of ghosts following him.
As Aubrey and Levi investigate the case, they uncover new secrets in the case, each of their lives and their feelings toward each other.
I found Ghost Gifts to be enjoyable and full of plot twists, some predictable and others a little less so. The romance part is short and, even though you could see it coming, was done well.
Two big issues I had with the book were: An unbelievable number of incomplete sentences during their dialogs, where the author leaves you to finish them; often cut too short to really make sure you knew what they were trying to say. (By the middle of the book I actually mumbled several times: “Do either of them ever complete a sentence?”)
And finally, sentences that were unusually worded and resulted in me having to read them at least twice to make sure I understood them.
Were it not for the two issues, this would have been a great book. As it is, it’s still enjoyable and worth reading.