The Dead Whisper On by TL Hines
This book has been sitting in my TBR (to be read) pile for months. I’m not sure why I didn’t pick it up sooner, probably because the CFBA tour came and went, and I did my obligatory post, unable to post a real review because of being a slow reader. I heard good things about TL Hine’s first book, Waking Lazarus, so I was anxious to see if maybe I found a new author I could really love.
The Dead Whisper On gripped me from from page one and kept me reading. And I don’t say that about many books. In fact I could probably count on one hand how many books sucked me in this last year. I was so into this story that I became a “reader” again, and didn’t analyze every other word and sentence. Though that’s probably because there was nothing to analyze. Everything was so tightly woven together…characterization, plot, and spiritual theme. I think I read this one in record time.
The Dead Whisper On is the story of a daughter’s desire to connect with her dead father and the evil that is slowly taking over her town.
When Candace (Canada) MacHugh’s father died, he promised to talk to her from the other side, if he could. Eleven years later, Canada has traded in her miners hat for a garbage truck, but longs for the past and a connection with her father. One night Canada hears a familiar voice speak from the shadows. Her dead father. He’s kept his promise and offers her a chance to be with him again. But what he proposes may rip her from her hometown of Butte, Montana. Canada desperately wants to connect with the one parent in her life who made her feel safe and loved, but could her escapade with her dead father keep her from saving the lives of those she’s left behind?
The book has excellent pacing and characterization without any gratuitous violence. Interspersed throughout the book are transcripts of strange happening in Butte in years past which give the reader a glimpse that something else is happening in the town of Butte, something so sinister that it threatens all the residents and beyond.
I know what you’re thinking. Dead people coming back to life…it’s controversial in Christian circles, but the way TL Hines handles it noteworthy. I promise you it’s not a retelling of the Sixth Sense.Though this book deals with the supernatural, TL Hines doesn’t spell it out for you, instead he suggests a more abstract reason for all the evil consuming the town of Butte. One that really made me think about my life. Though I guessed one of the plot twists early on…(at least I’d like to think it was early) it still didn’t detract from my enjoyment of the book. In fact, I enjoyed this book and author enough to put him on my must reads lists!
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