Boasting a garden and barbecue facilities, The Toll House features accommodation in Newton Stewart with free WiFi and river views.

The Toll House (Audio Download): Carly Reagon, Antonia

Melding modern-life with mysteries from the past, this is a readable romp of suspenseful supernatural fiction.

I'll bet you a sovereign you won't spend the night there alone, for all your talk," said White suddenly. I had to pause in the wee hours of the morning even if I wanted to finish it because I was more than a little freaked out with what was going on. Despite this, my thanks go to Little, Brown Book Group UK for the chance to review an eARC through Netgalley. Kelda and her son Dylan have recently moved into "The Tollhouse", an creamy old house with a history! Carly Reagon does her best in this regard; The Toll House is well written, with some genuinely creepy moments and unsettling situations set into a good old fashioned ghost story.

The Toll House by John Sackville | Hachette UK The Toll House by John Sackville | Hachette UK

This was a disappointing read: rather than telling me what Kelda feels and thinks, I wished Reagon had - at the start of the novel for instance - shown me what was sinister about the house on Kelda and Dylan's approach; what did they actually see? There was also a cool supernatural mystery to unwind and that also added a historical fiction aspect. As Dylan's behaviour becomes increasingly challenging, Kelda seeks answers in the house's mysterious past.He rang the bell, and, sending for the landlord, appealed to him in the name of our common humanity not to let them waste a night watching in a house in which spectres and hobgoblins had no part. What made this book for me were the two timelines – leading up to Kelda and her son being in the house and what the house was like before that.

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Meagle, in place of advancing, stood almost as still as a sudden horrible doubt took possession of him.

The Toll House is a scary place to live and all the supernatural things that kept happening create a book filled with tension that you might need to put down a few times as it is so scary! The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. That's what the jury brought it in," he said slowly; "but his mind was sound enough when he went in there.