The Nursery (The Bayou Hauntings Book 3) by Bill Thompson

Title: The Nursery
Author: Bill Thompson
Published: Dec 1, 2018
Publisher: Ascendente book
Genre: Ghost supernatural
Pages: 303
Review: ebook provided by NetGalley and publisher
Buy Links: Amazon, Amazon.uk 

A house that sat empty for fifty years as its dead owner instructed. A locked room with no key. A single father with eight-year-old twin girls. A nursery from long, long ago that no child ever played in.There are eerie things going on at The Arbors in St. Francisville, Louisiana. Architect Jordan Blanchard is joined by his friend Callie Pilantro (“Callie – The Bayou Hauntings 1”) and Landry Drake (“Forgotten Men – The Bayou Hauntings 2”) to learn the secrets of a domineering matriarch whose two husbands died in bizarre ways. They explore the house as someone watches from a hidden place high above. The Nursery, the third book in the series, will keep you up late at night wondering what’s behind the next door, what lies beyond the mirror and who hides and waits at The Arbors.

 

I received this book via NetGalley to give an honest review.

Honestly, what pulled me to the book was the cover! I am a book cover whore lol. Like I love beautiful covers and some of them just scream awesome book while others are just ehh. 

For me this story was okay nothing spectacular really stood out to me on this book. Though one of my friends mentioned that it was a movie but I am not sure how true that really is.

I did love the setting where the ghost house was at. I love Louisiana and the fact that there are ghost houses there just makes it more beautiful to me. When Jordan and his twin girls move into this house things start becoming terrifying. The one condition that Jordan had when he bought the house was that he could not open the one door. Yet, that doesn't stop it when it is opened things start to become creepy and his daughters will be caught in the cross hairs. Not only will he have to deal with a ghost but there seems to be something else going on that seems out of the ordinary.
I did like the mystery surrounding the house and the reason the lady ghost of the house was the way she was. Though I would have like to have more backstory into how a ghost can take two human through a mirror, I do understand that is paranormal but a reason how would be nice. I didn't really connect with any characters no matter how hard I tried. For me, I felt that something was missing but I can not put my hands on it just yet. Maybe later on it will come to me.

If variety is the spice of life, author Bill Thompson's life so far has been spicy for sure! Over the years, and in no particular order, he's been
* an international insurance broker
* a mayor
* head of a state prison board
* a stockbroker
* a newspaper reporter
* a Bourbon Street piano player
* a corporate entrepreneur
* presented to Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip
* in jail (briefly ... and wrongly!)
* a goat herder
* a church organist and choir member
* a real estate broker
* a world traveler
* president of an animal shelter
* a husband, father and grandfather
* an observer at a knighting in Westminster
* a fluent Russian speaker
* a passenger on the Concorde
* a caregiver
* a lifetime dog lover
* an award-winning novelist