Spooked

De: Ruby Madden

Narrado por: Clay Lomakayu

Clementine, an in-demand sketch artist who needs an escape from her hectic, stressful, and busy city life, decides to take a much-needed one-year sabbatical. She welcomes the chance to move to a small town in the South and inhabit the old, Victorian mansion that, upon her aunt's recent passing, was willed to her.

Upon arriving Clementine meets Gabe, a kindly, considerate, and sexy jack-of-all-trades who helped her aunt while she was alive with the house, doing maintenance, repairs, and property upkeep.

They are instantly drawn to one another, and Clementine wonders if he likes curvy women such as herself while worrying what he might think if he knows she's what's known as a white witch. - a benevolent practitioner of the elements, magic, and energy.

Meanwhile Gabe wonders if Clementine will figure out that he's not exactly mortal or living. That he is in fact a spook. A ghost.

Ultimately they will discover a hidden mystery about their unique connection, crossing time and space to reveal the truth: their enduring love.

©2014 - 2015 Ruby Madden c/o Manifestiny Entertainment, LLC (P)2015 Ruby Madden c/o Manifestiny Entertainment, LLC

okay story

narration was same voice throughout the book. No differentiation between men's and women's voices. story was okay but could have been a lot better. it felt like someone's very first attempt at writing a story and there were things that could have been addressed better if the story were longer. The story left me feeling as if it should have been a full novel but was revised to be a short story instead.

Odd but fun romantic ghost story!

Lots of odd things about this book such as descriptions of the main character using the bathroom in detail, which added squat (hehe) to the storyline. Not only was the narrator hard to understand, but every character sounded exactly the same. He also lost his place several times during his reading & repeated the same sentence! However, I do LOVE a ghost story, so I persevered through the amateur writing & narration. Really, though, how I can complain? The book was free. I enjoyed all the characters. It entertained me & oddly, I didn’t want it to end when it did! I was left wanting more of their slightly erotic love story. Actually, that was the best part of this short novel. Will there be a sequel? I would buy it.

It’s the Haunted Mansion in Story Form

A story of reincarnation and lovers lost to time it was okay but I was distracted by the narrators bayou accent.

just ok

The story is pretty short. Clay Lomakayu does a pretty good job with the narration. It is a ghost story. It just really didn't grab me and drag me in but it is an ok story.

That accent

Genre: Contemporary paranormal romance
Clementine Jackson, a mixed-race woman (apparently that is important) has inherited an old house from her (White) aunt. She is a witch who practices benevolent magic, though there isn’t a lot of that going on. A handyman named Gabe shows up sporadically (though he really doesn’t do much handyman-ing aside from repairing the toilet). She is attracted to him, and he seems to show attraction for her. The first time he comes over, he is driving a truck which he allows her to use because she has a flat, and he rides as passenger. This is confusing given who he turns out to be. She starts to investigate the house’s history, which creates a mystery as to who the inhabitants, aside from her (white) ancestors were. She is having dreams about being a (Black) servant in the house having an affair with a guy who looks exactly like Gabe.
This is a simple ghost story, and is actually an interesting, though not unique, premise. I wish it had been better. However... There are some details in the story that are totally unnecessary, such as the description of her urinating - including the sound of the urine hitting the bowl. And the fact that her sh*t stank. Really? And then there’s the mention of the librarian, Jeremy, being her “new gay best friend”. Frankly, I found the qualifier of his sexuality totally out of line, given that it added nothing to the story. Plus, the whole thing was passive, with more telling than showing.
Now, the reason I gave the narration one star is because I couldn’t give it zero. First, it was a reading, with no differentiation of characters. No changes in timbre, inflection, or pacing to indicate which character was speaking. No difference between narrative and dialogue. And it was all in this horrendously exaggerated Southern accent that was almost Gumpish. If the story had not been so short, it would have been a DNF. I got this through the Romance Package and it still felt like a waste of money.