Synopsis:
Don’t leave me alone
in the dark…
In 1977, Minch Point Lighthouse on Skye’s most westerly tip was suddenly abandoned by the keeper and his family – no reason ever found. In the decade that followed, it became a haunt for teenagers on the hunt for thrills. Playing Thirteen Ghost Stories, they’d light thirteen candles, blowing one out after every story told until only the darkness remained.
In 1987, following her success working on a case with Sussex Police, twenty-five-year-old psychic, Ness Patterson, is asked to investigate recent happenings at the lighthouse. Local teen, Ally Dunn, has suffered a breakdown following time spent there and is refusing to speak to anyone. Arriving at her destination on a stormy night, Ness gets a terrifying insight into what the girl experienced.
The case growing ever more sinister, Ness realises: some games should never be played.
My review:
Another brilliant book from Shani Struthers and how wonderful to find
out more about Ness and her past. Thirteen is a brilliant book of fear, hope
and light and once again had me on the edge of my seat willing the book to just
go on and not finish. Also just to add that although this book is a second part
in the Psychic Surveys series, it can be read as a standalone novel.
The book is based around an old lighthouse on Skye, that has been left
by its last occupants to rot away in the harsh weather and darkness that
surrounds it. It certainly has its own strange past, but that doesn’t stop
teenagers taking refuge there and play a decades old game of thirteen ghost
stories.
But it goes wrong and the last lot to play the game are affected by some
sort of dark energy, that is slowly overtaking their lives. So here comes Ness,
psychic girl, who on occasion helps Police find bodies of victims of violent
crimes and someone with her own past still haunting her.
I can’t say anymore other than the fact that Ness soon learns that she
must trust in herself and the people around her, as together they can create
the light needed to banish even the darkest spirits hiding in the corners of
the abandoned lighthouse. But it can come at a cost.
I am always excited to read one of Shani’s books and even more excited
to write about it so thank you very much to TBConFB and Shani for letting me
read this book in exchange for an honest review.
My rating: 5/5
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