What Haunts Me

Ghost Killer - Book I

Fiction - Supernatural
204 Pages
Reviewed on 11/14/2015
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Author Biography

I’m a native Californian and currently live in San Francisco with my husband and two cats. I’m the author of six books (two novels, one 3 book series, and book one of a new series): Doppelganger Experiment (World Castle Publishing, September 2011; republished via Amazon Digital, January 2014), The Four Series – Book I, II and III (World Castle Publishing 2012/13, republished via Amazon Digital Services, Inc. October 2015), The Dragonfly Door (Amazon Digital Services, Inc. October 2013), What Haunts Me (Ghost Killer – Book 1) (Amazon Digital Services, Inc., November 2014 and Creativia Publishing, December 2015), The Edge of the Cemetery (Ghost Killer – Book 2) (Creativia Publishing, June 2016).

    Book Review

Reviewed by Lit Amri for Readers' Favorite

In Margaret A. Millmore’s What Haunts Me (Ghost Killer, Book I), ghosts and demons do not haunt the living in the traditional sense, but plague the innocent with diseases, physical deformities and deadly addictions. They will haunt their victims for a lifetime or kill them quickly. A mild flu brings on dreams and triggers George’s suppressed memories. He wakes up one day realizing that he can see ghosts that attach themselves to people. His instinct to get rid of them is strong and when he acts on it, George discovers that he can kill the ghosts and the victims will be healed.

Getting to know the lead character was fun. Set in San Francisco, this is the story of a thirty-three-year-old man modestly yet successfully working in real estate. In other words, his life is good until ghost killing becomes George’s obsession. The ability to save lives has a heavy price. It costs him his sanity. Yet, it also gives him a new understanding of the world and new friends. Millmore gives the classic ghost theme a fresh perspective through a well-developed plot. The world of ghosts and their antagonists is different from what I usually read in the paranormal genre.

What Haunts Me is a richly imagined ghost story where the hero and heroine come in the form of everyday people. I’m sure fans of the genre will enjoy this book as much as I did. I look forward to reading more about George and Billy, a female ghost hunter, in the next installment of the series.

Carol Coetzee

What Haunts Me by Margaret Millmore is an interesting and fun read. George is a successful businessman. During an illness George has strange dreams. Once he recovers, he realizes that his dreams are leeching into his reality. He sees something hovering around people, mainly those who are ill or addicted to substances. George is not really sure if this is part of his crazy dreams or something real, and is unsure what it all means and what is happening to him. He discovers that the entities he sees are draining the life energy from these people and he has the ability to get rid of them. He also learns that he possesses a certain power which enables him to make the entities disappear and so heal the people they are haunting. He discovers that he is a descendant of a bloodline of powerful ghost killers. Billy is a female ghost hunter and he and Billy join up and form a ghost hunting team, which makes for a fun, yet dark and disturbing paranormal read.

Margaret Millmore has created an interesting, novel, and yet mesmerizing world in What Haunts Me. The book deals with the dark side of paranormal fiction and is a fascinating story, showing the author's incredible imagination. She has managed to take a common subject, add a different twist to it, and pull out an engaging novel. The plot moves along at a steady pace, with characters that are a great mash up of various personalities, both good and evil. A villain is out to win at all costs and two ghost hunters are intent on beating him, regardless of the risks to themselves. George is an interesting person, and bits and pieces of his personality are revealed throughout the book, which means you keep learning something about him and keep reading to discover more. There are often little tidbits which appear randomly, and the reason only becomes apparent later, which makes it really interesting trying to tie everything together. I look forward to a sequel in this series and hope there is one on the cards!