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michellewords's review
4.0
A Winter of Ghosts is a continuation of The Waking Trilogy and I'm a fan.
In this book there is a snow/winter demon that has started to hunt people from the o.g. curse in the first book. This time-it found Hachiro/Kara's bf. Together, Kara and her friends need to find out how to stop the curse in time to find and/or save Hachiro and each other.
One thing I have to say up front about this book was how much I loved the details in this one. The story was the same structure, but the word-choice was better (imo).
This series is another to stack on my "love" pile of Christopher Golden books. There's a reason I fell in love with his writing in high school/middle school and why I still love it so much.
His stories are creepy and thoughtful. I LOVE the way he tells them.
I am always reluctant to recommend my favorite author books because I don't want anyone to read and dislike it-it would break my heart---so don't read it. Or if you do and you hate it, don't tell me.
In this book there is a snow/winter demon that has started to hunt people from the o.g. curse in the first book. This time-it found Hachiro/Kara's bf. Together, Kara and her friends need to find out how to stop the curse in time to find and/or save Hachiro and each other.
One thing I have to say up front about this book was how much I loved the details in this one. The story was the same structure, but the word-choice was better (imo).
This series is another to stack on my "love" pile of Christopher Golden books. There's a reason I fell in love with his writing in high school/middle school and why I still love it so much.
His stories are creepy and thoughtful. I LOVE the way he tells them.
I am always reluctant to recommend my favorite author books because I don't want anyone to read and dislike it-it would break my heart---so don't read it. Or if you do and you hate it, don't tell me.
kateh3077's review
5.0
This was a fantastic ending to an amazing trilogy.
In this final installment of the trilogy the reader sees the development of Kara's and Kara's Fathers relationships as well as Kara's friendships and the ultimate destruction of the demons curse.
Again in this book the authors world building and general descriptions made me as the reader feel like I was a part of the story as well as be able to empathise with what the characters were feeling.
The cover art work, authors writing style, the fact that I will read the book again in the future and recommend it to others/ buy it for friends and family members that I think will enjoy it; are the reasons that I have given this book a five star rating. In essence the trilogy as a whole is more than well worth the five stars plan to give it when I write the trilogy review
In this final installment of the trilogy the reader sees the development of Kara's and Kara's Fathers relationships as well as Kara's friendships and the ultimate destruction of the demons curse.
Again in this book the authors world building and general descriptions made me as the reader feel like I was a part of the story as well as be able to empathise with what the characters were feeling.
The cover art work, authors writing style, the fact that I will read the book again in the future and recommend it to others/ buy it for friends and family members that I think will enjoy it; are the reasons that I have given this book a five star rating. In essence the trilogy as a whole is more than well worth the five stars plan to give it when I write the trilogy review
sasbookreviews's review
4.0
The waking series pulls you in and it doesn't you go till the end. I read the first book in one night and found the other two a few years later. If you like Japanese folk lore this series doesn't disappoint. I literally dreamed about the demons in these books after I read them.
Book 1 : n american girl named Kara moves to Japan with her dad who gets a teaching job at the local high school. Sakura is the schools rule breaker she is morning the loss of her sister when see meets Kara and Introduces her to her friend Miho a shy girl. Kara has nightmares a bout a dead girl who turns out to be Sakura's sister who was murdered. Kara tells the girls and Sakura thinks its her sister seeking revenge, but could it be something worse like a demon feeding off Sakura's grief. Can the girls get the ghost to rest before it causes more damage???? read to find out.
Book 2: The girls are back and their putting on a Noh play about a Hannya a snake demon that feeds off female jealousy. Students start to disappear and Kara doesn't think the plays theme is no longer a coincidence she thinks the curse is bad and in the form of the Hannya demon. IS Kara right and how will the girls stop this new demon??? Read to find out.
BOOK 3: The girls are back one last time with one last demon curse of the Noh a Yuki-Onna a snow women. Yuki-Onna lurse men to their death by freezing them like ice-cycles. The friends all go out on a field trip and a student goes missing, the friends know its the curse at it again and this time its Yuki-Onna who legion says lives on the mountain. The worst part is the Yuki-Onna has Kara's boyfriend too who went after the missing student and Kara wants him back. Will Kara succeed will the finds defeat YUKI-Onna???? Read the final installment of the series to find out.
Book 1 : n american girl named Kara moves to Japan with her dad who gets a teaching job at the local high school. Sakura is the schools rule breaker she is morning the loss of her sister when see meets Kara and Introduces her to her friend Miho a shy girl. Kara has nightmares a bout a dead girl who turns out to be Sakura's sister who was murdered. Kara tells the girls and Sakura thinks its her sister seeking revenge, but could it be something worse like a demon feeding off Sakura's grief. Can the girls get the ghost to rest before it causes more damage???? read to find out.
Book 2: The girls are back and their putting on a Noh play about a Hannya a snake demon that feeds off female jealousy. Students start to disappear and Kara doesn't think the plays theme is no longer a coincidence she thinks the curse is bad and in the form of the Hannya demon. IS Kara right and how will the girls stop this new demon??? Read to find out.
BOOK 3: The girls are back one last time with one last demon curse of the Noh a Yuki-Onna a snow women. Yuki-Onna lurse men to their death by freezing them like ice-cycles. The friends all go out on a field trip and a student goes missing, the friends know its the curse at it again and this time its Yuki-Onna who legion says lives on the mountain. The worst part is the Yuki-Onna has Kara's boyfriend too who went after the missing student and Kara wants him back. Will Kara succeed will the finds defeat YUKI-Onna???? Read the final installment of the series to find out.
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