Candace G. (Ogre) reviewed on + 1568 more book reviews
This one is scary, really spooky--and only after you've finished it and thought for a bit do you realize quite how very scary it is. The story sneaks up on you somehow. The posthumous collaboration is seamless; the two voices weave a spell together and just drag the reader right under, into the dark . . .
From back cover: Known for his chilliing Blackwater series, author Michael McDowell left behind the unfinished manuscript for CANDLES BURNING upon his death in 1999. In the spirit of the ghost stories that Michael loved, Tabitha King has taken up where he left off . . .
Calliope 'Calley' Dakin is no normal little girl. She hears things that maybe a little girl shouldn't hear--and knows things a little girl should never know.
Just seven when her beloved father is tortured, murdered, and dismembered by two women with no discernable motivation, Calley and her mother find themselves caught up in inexplicable events that exile them to Pensacola Beach. There--in a house that's a dead ringer for Calley's late great-grandmother's house--another woman awaits their presence. A woman who understands what Calley is but has no idea just how strong her bond is with her father, even after death...
From back cover: Known for his chilliing Blackwater series, author Michael McDowell left behind the unfinished manuscript for CANDLES BURNING upon his death in 1999. In the spirit of the ghost stories that Michael loved, Tabitha King has taken up where he left off . . .
Calliope 'Calley' Dakin is no normal little girl. She hears things that maybe a little girl shouldn't hear--and knows things a little girl should never know.
Just seven when her beloved father is tortured, murdered, and dismembered by two women with no discernable motivation, Calley and her mother find themselves caught up in inexplicable events that exile them to Pensacola Beach. There--in a house that's a dead ringer for Calley's late great-grandmother's house--another woman awaits their presence. A woman who understands what Calley is but has no idea just how strong her bond is with her father, even after death...
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