I’ve been intrigued with Edie and Violet Bond as they are real people and there have been at least one other if not more books about them. I loved that the author is actually related to them. I didn’t realize exactly how much historical types of issues would be in the story, but I liked how they really filled out to make it more than just a ghost story.

Right away I was hooked by the whole medium tour and knowing that while they may actually have real powers, they mostly used more of fakery things because that is what people expected. I loved how the time period came into play so much. Women being put into asylums because the men in their life, fathers, husbands, etc., could easily just say they were being hysterical if they didn’t want or like what they were doing. It was more than that. There was a character who was working on getting women accepted into schools/colleges that the weren’t in the past. And overall there was the mystery of who was kidnapping or why were so many other mediums disappearing.

The way it played out was well laid out by the author and kept me wondering exactly what was happening. The descriptions of the death or in-between area that the spirits were was also interesting and a bit of a different take than you might see in other stories.

A great historical fiction/paranormal YA story that I will be sharing with my students in my school library.

Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.