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Sarah Waters

This book held so much promise: a 20th century ghost story taking place in the old, run-down Hundreds Hall, a mansion in England where the eccentric Ayers family lives. The plot was thick with unanswered questions, strange events, and even a bit of a love story. Unfortunately, it just didn’t come together in the end the way I’d hoped. Waters left almost the entire ghost story open-ended, providing no real “reason” for all of the strange occurrences that happen at Hundreds Hall. I was definitely disappointed in the ending and was left an unresolved feeling.