You can read my review for Spirit Caller 1-3 here, don’t read this if you haven’t read the series as it will contain vague spoilers for the first books.
Rachel has no trouble believing in spirits. It’s the living she has a tough time believing in.
Spirit Caller is a series of novellas set in very-small-town Newfoundland. About Rachel, a Spirit Caller that is now finally embracing and learning to use her skills of seeing ghosts.
I should start by saying that I fucking love Rachel. I think, of all the books I’ve read, she’s the person I relate to most, just the things she says and does, it me. This omnibus starts with her making some scones and forgetting to add milk to the batter, being unable to figure out why it’s not working. I DID THAT, IN REAL LIFE. She goes away for a romantic weekend and spends all day reading. HELLO. Sucks at cooking. STOP CALLING ME OUT. At least I know we’re not the same because she’s a better kinder person, who is very wrong about the correct level of bacon crispiness. Also not Rachel’s doing, but another character hosts a murder mystery party, and I did that for my birthday 2 years ago, and I thought I was super extra about it, but this one lasted 2 days. What I’m saying is I really love this, I’d been saving it up for a rainy day and when I couldn’t sleep at night it did an excellent job of keeping me distracted.
Mystery Night (Spirit Caller #4)
Book 4 – bittersweet.
Rachel and Jeremy are finally together after years of longing and pining. But they’re also trying to piece their lives together as Jeremy deals with the injuries he sustained at the end of book 3. This one is pretty chill tension wise, it’s all about Jeremy’s healing, a friend’s murder mystery party and Rachel snooping for a local ghostly mystery. A lovely comfort read that I blasted through.
Dead Living (Spirit Caller #5)
Book 5 – I’ve seen enough movies to know where this is going.
Rachel and Jeremy go on a lovely romantic getaway weekend, all alone, on a small island, accessible only by boat, with a closed down hotel. It starts off lovely and cozy, despite Rachel being a grump on her period (side note, finally books acknowledging that periods will always fuck up any trip possible). Now I’m not gonna tell you what happened, but writers don’t just write in a deserted island for no reason in a book series about the supernatural. Things happen, tension intensifies, we learn A LOT about some secondary characters and what is up with things. Also super quick fun read, more intense than the previous one.
Blood Family (Spirit Caller #6)
Book 6 – now this one was stressful
This one was a lot shorter than the rest, and really a lovely way to tie up the series. It was still fun to read, but I was glad it was on the shorter side, because it features one of my most stressful things: family bugging in and taking over everything. I would have taken any of this as gracefully as Rachel did. No siree. The tension is much more personal in this volume, much less story-driven, there’s a lot of characters tying up loose ends and saying what needed saying. A lot about family and found family and can I move to small-town Newfoundland, please?
r/fantays bingo: Optimistic, Featuring a Ghost, Self-Published Novel, A Book that Made You Laugh, Canadian Author (H), Romantic Fantasy / Paranormal Romance
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