Donna has grown up with her grandmother Lena who can commune with the dead. Now that Donna is an adult, she finds that the dead also seek her out.
Donna is an aspiring artist who decides to start night classes to work on her art. The college used to be a children's hospital for those suffering from tuberculosis. Once there, Donna starts to experience strange sightings and things take a turn for the worse when her friend Andrea goes missing.
Ms Deluca has created some nice atmosphere with this read, there's nothing creepier than children in a horror story and some of the scenes are quite intense. This read made me question what was reality and what was Donna's visions, hallucinations or dreams. Some things in the book, I feel, aren't explained well enough. Such as why certain people died, what the children wanted and how the occult fitted into the storyline. Some things may have been put in there as red herrings, if they were it was very effective but caused this reader a bit of confusion.
Another issue for me was the pacing, there were some really great scenes where atmosphere was built up nicely but then the story would switch to something different and the atmosphere would be lost. Some more info regarding the hospital and the relationship between Donna and her grandmother would have been great to include as well.
All in all, this was a nice read and I would recommend it for those wanting a creepy ghost story. I look forward to reading some more of Ms DeLuca's work.
Read as one of Darkfuse books of the month.
