Review: Possessed by Kate Cann

• Publisher: Point 
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• Released: February 1, 2010

My rating: 3.5/5

My thoughts:
Rayne  needed a change of scenery. She was living at home with her mom  & little brother (whom she had to look after often) and the feelings towards her somewhat controlling boyfriend were changing. It was summer & time she finally did something for herself. She replied to a help wanted ad and landed a job at Morton's Keep. Little did she know this old place had a past the owner was trying to keep buried.

There are a number of characters in this book & Kate does a great job of making you think about which ones to trust. The problem: I never really connected with any of the characters as I was too busy questioning their motives. What I did love was that you know something is wrong, you just can't put your finger on it & want to see how it all plays out. This is the story of Rayne, an outsider,  in a town struggling to keep their gruesome past from repeating itself. Not a big part of the story, but the description of what happened in the house is stomach turning. Although I expected something bad, I found myself fixated on this part, meaning the nervous, on the edge of my seat feeling I was enjoying while reading was gone :( Maybe I'm a wimp but I'd have to say I really enjoyed this book...up to a point.

Teaser Tuesday - March 2, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Possessed by Kate Cann

"She lay with the cold duvet pulled up to her eyes and scanned the room in terror. The table barricading the door, the red curtains stirring and trembling, the great reaching claw of the antlers - it was horrible. If I turn out the light, she told herself, desperately, if it's just black, I'll stop watching everything, and I'll get to sleep..." (pg 46 of ARC)

I was going to read this last night but chickend out, sure it's a YA ghost story, but still, I would have been wide awake all night if I read that LOL