The Vines
The dark history of Spring House, a beautifully restored plantation mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, has long been forgotten. But something sinister lurks beneath the soil of the old estate.
After heiress and current owner Caitlin Chaisson is witness to her husband's stunning betrayal at her birthday party, she tries to take her own life in the mansion's cherished gazebo. Instead, the blood she spills awakens dark forces in the ground below. Chaos ensues and by morning her husband has vanished without a trace and his mistress has gone mad.
Nova, daughter to Spring House's groundskeeper, has always suspected that something malevolent haunts the old place, and in the aftermath of the birthday party she enlists Caitlin's estranged best friend, Blake, to help her get to the bottom of it. The pair soon realizes that the vengeance enacted by this sinister and otherworldly force comes at a terrible price.
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Community Reviews
The premise, when I read it, thrilled me. A mysterious island, known to few, in the shadow of NYC, abandoned to nature and hiding deadly secrets? Yes please! But no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t get the book to live up to my hopes. As others have said, there’s a lot of jumping around in time, which in itself would not bother me, but some seemed so unnecessary and confusing. Characters were clunky and one-dimensional, with little complexity and did not develop as the book went along. Then the “cliffhanger” ending? No thank you. I won’t be buying a sequel to see what happens next as I didn’t get enough enjoyment out of this first installment.
I think this could have been an excellent story, but somewhere it just fell flat. I really wish I had loved it as much as I expected to, but it did not come close to meeting my standards.
It's a vary layered story - weaving together the past and present of several different characters. There were things happening that at initial thought were pointless, but later on turned out to be extremely important.
It's gory too, so bonus!
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