The Haunting of James Hastings by Christopher Ransom.

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Product Details:
Publisher: Ransom 2010.
Paperback. 438 Pages.
Source: Bought myself.
Rating: 1 out of 5.
Synopsis/Blurb: James Hastings' wife is dead - her life snuffed out in a horrific accident that leaves her husband shattered. Dizzy with grief and guilt, James withdraws into his sprawling mansion, losing himself in liquor ...and memories of Stacey. Until the day two women enter his life. One is Annette, a gorgeous stranger with a dark past. The other is not a stranger, and her past is all too familiar. First her voice echoes through the phone lines, and from behind the ballroom doors ...Then her shoes reappear, streaked with mud and grime, as though unearthed from the grave ...And soon Annette begins saying things only Stacey could know, enveloping James in a spiral of terror and violence that threatens to destroy his home, his sanity, and his soul. For death is only the beginning of his nightmare. And the haunting of James Hastings might just be the end of him...

I will be honest I was naughty as I didn't read the blurb or even notice this book was written by Christopher Ransom until I got home as the cover made me want to buy this book. I think the cover is great, it ties in perfectly with the story too. Once I did notice this book was written by Christopher Ransom, I was a little annoyed with myself, but I decided to give Christopher a second chance for me to love his writing.
The first few pages sucks you in. James the main character looses his wife in a accident/hit & run. The wife/widow of the person who killed James' wife, Annette, comes to make peace with James and they drawn to each other and become a couple, which to me was a bit daft as they won't find peace in each others underwear. Annette Slowly starts to turn into Stacey, James' dead wife. She wears same clothes, dyes her hair and stuff, it's actually spooks James a few times.
It's a spine chilling read that unlike The Birthing House , which I have reviewed here, is believable...Until the last hundred or so pages and to me the story was once again was ruined for me. The book just got confusing as one minute you think everything is solved and then it's not. Best way to describe how the ending of this book is with no spoilers is, when something happens to you and someone says "sorry it was me" and then goes "haha only joking it wasn't really", and then says " HA Na seriously it was me" and it goes on and on. The book just once again got very confusing and I couldn't make sense of any of it, to the point I got so mad I actually through the book up the wall. The book is written in both 1st and 3rd person which is confusing as I was unsure of what to make of the writing. Just as everything comes together the plot changes over & over & over. I had to re-read some parts just to make sense of it and that didn't help. I will not be re-reading this book and I won't be reading any more Christopher Ransom books, if any of you actually enjoy his books then great, but for me the twists are too much.
Sorry this wasn't a, I loved this book type of review, but you gotta take the good with the bad.

Laura xx