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Reviewed by Carla Trueheart for Readers' Favorite
A Jar of Fingers by C.L. Hernandez is an enjoyable haunted house story. Deegie, a witch who owns and runs an occult shop called The Silent Cat, purchases an old house with a history of violence after she breaks up with her cheating boyfriend. In the house, Deegie unearths a pet cemetery, befriends the ghost of cat lady Lisbet, and finds human remains in the basement. She enlists the help of her friend Zach and his brother Gilbert, who just happens to be magical like Deegie, but when a jar of fingers breaks and an evil demon is set free, it is all the three can do to stop the chaos that ensues. Beneath all of this there is a tiger spirit that protects Deegie, romantic tension between Deegie and Zach, and some outside town residents that add color and side drama to the plot. The novel is fairly short and is a quick read, at no point dragging. There is movement in every chapter.
Overall, A Jar of Fingers sticks to the haunted house plot and keeps the reader’s attention. It was difficult to judge early on where the book was going — there were a few different directions C.L. Hernandez could have taken the story. It could easily have been a story about the occult shop, the Zach romance, the cheating boyfriend, or Deegie’s secret life of being a witch. What the author did was bring all of these points together in a well-balanced novel. The book held my attention and stayed on the light end as far as haunted house stories go. I would recommend it to anyone who likes short reads about witches, ghosts and demons, and haunted houses.
