Review: They Whisper by Claire Fraise

 

A year and a half after buying this book after finishing and loving the first one, I finally read it and enjoyed it. It picks up right where the first left off. I was not confused or lost about anything. I didn't forget much, only minor characters and then the story reminded me immediately. 

The story picks up immediately with Shiloh and Max back at home. Max has been found and Leonard is dead. Francesca is freaking out about seeing Miles spirit and goes to the hospital to see him only to be told that he had just died. Turns out, Leonard jumped into Miles body and then killed a nurse to get into his body. Francesca put Miles spirit back into his body.

Shiloh and her mom are trying to move on from Shiloh's claim about her dad molesting her and a cop comes by to tell them that he made bail and he will resume his job as sherriff because it was an elected position. Shiloh is appalled and she starts getting questioned about his missing gun and how the crime scene of Leonard's trailer was tampered with. Shiloh goes to retrieve the gun, but it is not where she stored it.

Miles body starts to detoriate and they find out that an old circus freak show performer who was with Leonard is still alive and coming to town with the circus. They go and they learn that since Miles was dead too long, that his body is rejecting the soul. He can't blink and his is forming rashes and blisters on his body. He gets given a drug that is essentially bone dust and it helps rejuvenate him.

This book only had three POV's and thankfully one of them was not Miles because he became a downright asshole and was blaming Shiloh for getting him killed and choosing Max over him. He became egotistical. 

Francesca learns how to cross the void and to walk among the spirits on the other side. She unwillingly takes one of her dead friends with her and accidentally leaves her behind. The preacher who Francesca trusts, ends up betraying her to Leonard in the end because he really wants to cross over.

I was not a fan of the relationship developement between Jonah and Shiloh and how there was an almost sex scene. The story could have done without that. The ending had me hooked and Miles is now inhabitating the body of the rookie cop who wanted to take Jonah down because he was a bad seed.