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Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2023! I missed doing this the last couple of years due to Covid and so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

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I’m sharing all kinds of books, movies, and other spooky stuff for every day in October. Gots to get those scares on for the 31st!

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 Fallen Wishes

Ellie Jordan: Ghost Trapper #17

by J.L. Bryan

Genre: Horror

MY REVIEW

I’ve always thought southern settings are perfect for paranormal horror stories. It could be because I live in the south myself. The author made me feel right at home. We have a lot of old plantation houses and I could easily see Canterbury Gardens, the setting for this next book in the Ellie Jordan series. The huge house, the beautiful gardens with fountains and meandering paths. And I would have loved to be able to attend one of the fancy balls. The glitz. The glamour. Southern style.

Once again a family comes under attack by something unexplained. When they decided to purchase the old plantation and restore it to it’s earlier grandeur, they didn’t know they would be disturbing something from the past. Ghostly apparitions roam the gardens. And when they start entering the house, things turn deadly. Time to call Ellie before someone gets killed.

I’ve loved this series from the very first book. Seventeen books in and I’m still as intrigued and excited. The author has so many different scenarios and settings for his series and that keeps each story feeling new. And I love reading about how Ellie does her research. She’s methodical and thorough. Now Stacey, her partner, is the opposite. She wants to get right to it. Start setting up the cameras and traps and catching some ghosts. It all works to make me a captive audience to the mystery as it unravels. And there’s also some pretty terrifying moments to feed my horror habit. I ending this feeling sated and happy. Bring on the next!

5 STARS

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Synopsis

Canterbury Gardens is a centuries-old plantation outside Charleston, South Carolina. Its aristocratic founders once hosted lavish banquets and balls among fanciful pleasure gardens, canals, and large-scale follies resembling ancient and medieval ruins.

Over generations of neglect, the winding paths of the gardens have become overgrown, its marble statues and columned buildings abandoned to the wild.

Now a family recovering from tragedy have devoted themselves to restoring the estate, but the ghosts of the past remain strong. Shadowy figures walk the labyrinth of overgrown gardens. A strange wishing well steeped in local legend attracts trespassers who climb walls and gates in their eagerness to throw in a coin and make a wish.

Paranormal investigator Ellie Jordan travels there to study and confront the dark entities who stalk the house and grounds by night, terrifying the family who now live there. The secret history of the plantation proves as shadowy and labyrinthine as its maze of gardens. Enchanting on the surface, Canterbury Gardens was founded on the darkest of wishes, and every wish that comes true has its price.

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