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\n\"The<\/a>The Spirit Engineer<\/a> by A.J. West<\/a>
\nMy rating: 3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n

Time taken to read – in and out over 4 days<\/p>\n

Pages – 299<\/p>\n

Publisher – Duckworth<\/p>\n

Source – Bought <\/p>\n

Blurb from Goodreads <\/p>\n

Belfast, 1914. Two years after the sinking of the Titanic, high society has become obsessed with spiritualism in the form of seances that attempt to contact the spirits of loved ones lost at sea.<\/p>\n

William is a man of science and a sceptic, but one night with everyone sat around the circle something happens that places doubt in his heart and a seed of obsession in his mind. Could the spirits truly be communicating with him or is this one of Kathleen\u2019s parlour tricks gone too far?<\/p>\n

This early 20th century gothic set in Northern Ireland contains all the mystery and intrigue one might expect from a Sarah Waters novel. Deftly plotted with echoes of The Woman in Black, readers will be thrilled to discover West\u2019s chilling prose.<\/p>\n

Based on the true story of William Jackson Crawford and famed medium Kathleen Goligher, and with a cast of characters that include Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini, The Spirit Engineer conjures a haunting tale that will keep readers guessing until the very end.<\/p>\n

My Review <\/p>\n

William Jackson Crawford, married to Elizabeth and father to three children. Elizabeth still grieves her brother who died on the Titanic and is very spiritual. William is a scientist, one thing leads to another and William gets exposed to the medium Kathleen Golighter. In a twist of events William becomes The Spirit Engineer trying to debunk the seances and spiritual happenings. Everything is seemingly going well, fame, fortune and paid to debunk William finds himself going from scathing sceptic to questioning is the phenomenon real?<\/p>\n

Well, I can’t say there is many likeable characters, William is actually someone who many a time I wanted to slap and would use the phrase insufferable. The book has death and even a wee shock or two along the way, well I was shocked.<\/p>\n

I don’t know anything about the real life people featured in the book so I don’t know how accurate events\/characters are in the book nor their likeness. Was I interested? yes absolutely but I really struggled to like the characters.<\/p>\n

The book opens with a dark scene and then takes us back, I completely forgot about that and did immerse in the book, not knowing where it would go. Short chapters and I did enjoy the seances and ghost\/haunty parts but I can’t say I loved the book, 3\/5. It was my first time reading this author, would I read them again, yeah sure.\n<\/p>\n

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