By Alex Grecian
This was a truly odd and engaging read. But I’ll say from the beginning, you have to like weird, and you have to be able to tolerate a generous amount of gore. Those aren’t usually for me, but I found this to be the most unique thing I’ve read in a long time. Because it was so different, I found it very compelling.
The setting is nineteenth-century New England where witch hunters still stalk their prey and where women with psychic powers try to blend into a community where nothing is normal anymore. Ascension was meant to be a quiet, rural village—a respite from frenetic city life and maybe it would have been. Except that the house on the hill is haunted with dozens of ghosts all with their own stories to tell. They are just a distraction because the town’s problems run far deeper and reach back into time. And now the dead aren’t dying anymore.
Rose, Sadie Grace, and Rabbit arrive in Ascension to take care of Rose’s sick cousin. Only the cousin, previously on her deathbed, has risen and made a miraculous recovery…or has she? Turns out the town is full of people who should be in their graves but are not. Stories circulate that Ascension isn’t the only town experiencing these phenomena. Meanwhile the reason why the death no longer visits earth is headed straight to Ascension for an epic confrontation.
Witches, witch hunters, ghosts, demons, and angels are all afoot in the world created by Alex Grecian. An exciting and creative read.
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