{"id":15393,"date":"2017-10-02T10:57:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T17:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/?p=15393"},"modified":"2017-10-02T15:15:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T22:15:53","slug":"the-ghostwriter-alessandra-torre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/the-ghostwriter-alessandra-torre\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ghostwriter by Alessandra Torre | Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alessandra Torre has a winner with the Ghostwriter<\/a>. The plot feels fresh, the writing is evocative and the characters, especially Helena Ross, quickly come into sharp focus.\u00a0\u00a04 stars.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Ghostwriter<\/a> occupies a sweet spot between women\u2019s fiction and suspense. On the one hand, you\u2019re trying to unravel the mystery. On the other, it\u2019s a journey through what grief does to the human heart. In Helena\u2019s case, grief has squeezed and squeezed and squeezed, and what\u2019s left of her heart has dried into a bitter, angry little pit.<\/p>\n

Told in alternating third person chapters between Helena and her ghostwriter, the premise is: Helena is a bestselling romance author with 15 books under her belt. She ditches a book she\u2019s under contract for to tell one last story. Her agent, who she usually only communicates with through email, is at a loss. What\u2019s more, to make sure she gets it done in a tight timeframe, Helena wants the help of a ghostwriter.<\/p>\n

Helena is written so vividly I had to keep reminding myself she\u2019s only 32. She\u2019s blunt, emotionally distant and impatient. And she has a psychiatrist for a mother. In a very short time, her experiences turned her from quirky introvert into full blown recluse. Rooms in her house, both literally and figuratively, are locked up, just so she can survive. But all that matters is this book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If you enjoyed the various \u201cGirl\u201d books, definitely pick up the Ghostwriter<\/a>, then rejoice in the fact that we\u2019re not dealing with an unreliable narrator. As the story unfolded, I kept looking for clues that Helena was remembering things as she wanted them to be, rather than how they were. Whatever Helena\u2019s faults, her grief hasn\u2019t totally colored her recollections. There\u2019s enough of a rollercoaster here that I don\u2019t think I could have survived learning it was all delusion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fave line: \u201cIt must be a cowboy thing, the ability to drag words along the ground and kick up emotional dust.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>

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**ARC provided via NetGalley** Alessandra Torre has a winner with the Ghostwriter. The plot feels fresh, the writing is evocative and the characters, especially Helena Ross, quickly come into sharp focus.\u00a0\u00a04 stars. The Ghostwriter occupies a sweet spot between women\u2019s fiction and suspense. On the one hand, you\u2019re trying to unravel the mystery. 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