"Only one may live to carry the curse to the next generation, then they will suffer their losses" -- Jennet Scot
Okay so you already know I fell in love with the first book in the series - and this one was no different - I was just DYING for some more of Jennet's story, she had me entranced from the moment I first started reading. I love Emma's story, but Jennet's story is so horrible and not just angering but also makes the reader feel so helpless, that you cannot help but feel sorry for her, even though she has done some pretty horrible things in vengeance. And of course it is not going to get any better - for her or for the people around her.
In this mid-series short story, we meet Ma Ramsgill and her son John, who is married to a descendant of Mary Farmer, the one person who never forsook Jennet, even as she died a horrible death. When I started reading I wasn't quite sure who the people were, but John and his buddies had found a skull while digging, and it just happened to be the skull of Jennet Scot, found at the place where the Hanging Moore used to be. Where Jennet had died. So John has heard only a bit of the story, he doesn't really believe it and he doesn't know all of it - so Ma sits them both down and tells them the story of what happened between Jennet and the Ramsgills. Now I am wondering where the curse that Jennet laid upon the Ramsgill family is at ... if Ma has lost children before this and John is the only one left ... or if there will be more deaths to come now that Jennet has resurfaced once again. But all of that will be played out - and once again I am like a fish on a hook - just waiting and hungering for more. This is possibly the BEST series I have read in my opinion so far. I can't stop, I am kind of like Jennet and her curse - I just keep going!
By now, if you read you will realize that TWINS are the reoccurring theme in this book - and of course only one can survive (if any) to keep the curse going into the next generation. John and Sue scoff at the words from Ma, they just don't buy into it, but I mean who would? Ghosts, spirits, hauntings, curses, witches - it's all nonsense right?? RIGHT?? Until it's not, until they see firsthand what happens. When they lose their twin babies, they still are not certain about the curse, but Ma tells them they must send their older child Richie far away from Thruscross and the curse. At the wake, we get to see a few more people who live near them - and as it turns out, ALL of the people they know played some part in Jennet's story. However, just like John and Sue - the others don't believe it, most of them just brush it off as folklore. And then it starts all over again. Jennet is back and she is just as strong as ever and even more hateful and vengeful.
I don't want to give the plot away as always, so you have to read it for yourself - and this series is REALLY hard to talk about without giving away anything. But trust me, it's worth it and it will captivate you like nothing you have ever seen. You will be left wanting more just like I was, and you will want to see how the curse plays out. I could honestly see more and more books coming out of this series at this point, and I would read them willingly! I want it to keep going, I want to keep hearing more about Jennet and the Ramsgills and Thores-Cross (Thruscross). ***I received a free book to read***