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Those We Fear
by Victoria Griffith
Published by HighLine Editions on April 1st 2016
Genres: Young Adult, Mystery
Pages: 203
Format: Kindle
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What do you get when you cross The Turn of the Screw and Jane Eyre with Psycho? Victoria Griffith's latest thriller. When Maria becomes a summertime au pair to the children of a Scottish lord, she discovers the family is living under the shadow of two suspicious deaths. Vanishing portraits, cloaked figures, and bizarre shrines add up to a compelling Modern Gothic psychological mystery.
Wow. Those We Fear by Victoria Griffith is my first gothic mystery book, and I loved it!! I am giving this book five stars as it kept me wanting to know more and more about Maria and the family that she is being an au pair for. Let’s just say that I wasn’t thinking that the one behind everything was the one behind everything. This book reminded me of the mystery game Clue in a way with the way that I was jumping around with Maria on who I thought was doing it. I blurted out one day “The nurse did it at the lake with a knife!” Making my cat get off my lap and meowed at me to show her disapproval before walking away to her bed that was still near me.
Throughout the whole book, I thought I was in Scotland with Maria experiencing the same things as she did while still trying to figure out who done it all. I mean it was a little nerve-wracking and overall this book was amazing. It kept me guessing, it kept me wanting to know more as I slept or did my chores or anything that was away from my Kindle, and while I was reading it I was so absorbed into it that sometimes I didn’t even realize how far I got into the book or that I needed to do something else because it was that good. Those We Fear by Victoria Griffith is such an amazing book that I am glad that I took the opportunity to read it.
If anyone was to ask me for a recommendation of a good Gothic Mystery book I will tell them about Those We Fear by Victoria Griffith because it was a great read and something that I enjoyed. I did feel bad though for that poor family that Maria had to look after the kids for since they went through so much in the past year with two “accidental” killings taking place and stuff getting stolen here and there it was just a hard for them all. Especially for the poor two little ones that just didn’t know what to do with their feelings about their mom dying and their grandmother being ill and just being stuck in that big ancestral home of their late mothers. At least though it ends on a happy note for everyone…mostly.
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About Victoria Griffith
“After some disastrous stints as a banker and a waitress, I decided to become a writer. For many years, I was a journalist. I had lots of fun cooking lunch for Julia Child, hanging out with Yanomami Indians in Brazil and following the space program. Now, I’m a full-time author.” –Victoria Griffith
