A fictional take on a real mystery, The Ghost of the Mary Celeste takes a strange nautical event and turns it into a ghost story. I was really excited by the premise of this book as I love it when a writer plucks a real history out of history and turns it into an intriguing ghost story. That unfortunately is not what this book is. One of the biggest problems with this book is the overall structure and how disjointed it feels. This book is really not a cohesive story but rather tales that are barely related to each other being mashed into a single story. While the delineation between stories is clear, so at least the reader isn’t confused, it makes it both hard to care about what is happening and keeps the book from feeling like a real take on the mystery. And if you make it through… Read more »
