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Title: Less Than a Ghost
Review: While there's no denying that the author is a gifted writer (in the sense of her verbal dexterity), the plot was too thin and frankly incomprehensible. How did Simon acquire his powers of animism? How did Cameron, the lighthousekeeper go unhinged in the way that he did? How did that little girl get there? Where is everybody going? Which one's real? Which one isn't? The lines between ghosts and human and dream figures was too blurry for me to enjoy.The book's too short! (And maybe 15 pages were devoted to beautiful but baffling diary entries.) Only Simon, the farmer magician was developed as a character. I didn't think I had picked up a blood-curdling horror novel. But I expected a ghost story to give me, at the very least, a few shivers of uneasiness.As it is, it just makes good copy for a travel guide for Scottish lighthouses.
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