FREE: National Bestseller "The Winter People" by Jennifer McMahon Supernatural Suspense

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Read once by me!
Haven't read anything this good in a long time. Smoke free home.
A thriller/mystery that incorporates supernatural elements, the best type of dark story The longing to "speak with the dead", to see an individual one last time, and to conquer death provide the impetus for the characters' actions. The overwhelming, obsessive love of a mother for a long-desired child also provides a motive for events. Further, McMahon incorporates the reader's childhood and adult fears - abandonment by parents; the death of a beloved child or spouse; and unexplained nighttime shadows and noises - to produce this gripping story.

Spanning a period between 1908 and the present, the narrative of the "The Winter People" is primarily presented in the third person. Only the secret diary of one individual - Sara Harrison Shea - is written in the first person. That diary provides the cohesive element that ties the different eras and characters together. It also personalizes the story and gives it more a authentic tone. Throughout "The Winter People" and as more information from this diary is revealed, the mystery deepens until the unexpected ending that shocks the reader and evokes sympathy for characters psychologically caught in the grip of the "sleepers" or charged with protecting others from a more horrific fate.

When reading "The Winter People", individuals should be patient. The events and action in this novel are not the type that hit the reader immediately. Rather, Jennifer McMahon builds the tension slowly as the characters continue to discover more of the pages of Sara Harrison Shea's diary. It took almost a quarter of the book before I became so engrossed that I did not stop reading until I had finished "The Winter People". Only the character of Katherine seemed extraneous. However, at the very end of the book, one could then see her character and situation provided a nice segue should McMahon decide to continue "The Winter People" as a series.