Mary Rose by Geoffrey Girard

Release Date: October 17th, 2017
Publisher: Adaptive Books
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Pages: 272 Pages
Format: ARC
Source: From Publisher
Reason: For honest review
Find the Author: Website
Buy the Book: Amazon

Who knows what ghosts lie within us, or when they will return?Mary Rose Morland and Simon Blake are the perfect couple: successful young professionals in Philadelphia, attractive, madly in love, and ready to start a life together. When they travel to England for Simon to ask her parents’ permission to marry Mary Rose, he learns an unsettling secret: Mary Rose disappeared when she was a little girl on a remote Scottish island and reappeared mysteriously thirty-three days later in the exact same spot without a scratch on her and no memory of what had happened.
After Simon learns about this disturbing episode in Mary Rose’s childhood, he becomes obsessed with finding out what happened and proceeds to launch his own investigation and arranges during their honeymoon for them to visit the island where she disappeared. But as Mary Rose’s behavior gets stranger after their engagement, the need for Simon to unlock the truth about her past grows even more urgent. What he uncovers is beyond his most terrifying fears.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

IF YOU GO LOOKING FOR TROUBLE, YOU'LL BE SURE TO FIND IT

Mary Rose will capture you before you even crack it open. Look at that cover! It's so inviting! I know you're not supposed to judge a book by its cover(let's be honest, we ALL do it) but the minute I laid eyes on this one I didn't even need to know what it was about. I wanted to read it right away! 

The novel's size is a bit deceiving. It's a "small" package of only 272 pages yet it packs so much punch! Geoffrey Girard painted a picturesque setting that placed you right into the world of Mary Rose and Simon. He penned the perfect balance of strong, in-depth characters and a thought-provoking storyline. It isn't just a book, the story will wrap itself around you and pull you deep into its world. Leaving you in its grasp and hungry for more as you turn each page. 

With Halloween right around the corner and the days beginning to cool down, Mary Rose will be the perfect book to stay curled up inside reading. Its ghostly atmosphere will leave you goose bumped and glancing over your shoulder in eerie suspense. 

Mary Rose will attract and appeal to many readers, no matter their genre preference. I'm a lover of Young Adult fiction and I enjoyed every minute of my reading experience with Mary Rose. No matter what you love to read, you can't deny a great story! 

Hop on and enjoy this eerie, psychological thrill ride. You will not regret it!