Kate Collins has been a paramedic for fifteen years,she loves her job,she loves helping people and saving people's lives. She also loves her boyfriend Scott,in fact she loves him so much that she is prepared to transfer from Leeds to Brighton and move in with him.
Only when she arrives at her new home,there is no sign of Scott,he has completely vanished along with all his possessions. The only thing that Kate finds in his deserted flat is his mobile phone.
Soon after,Kate starts receiving sinister phone calls,are they really threatening or is someone trying to warn her that her life is in danger? what has happened to Scott? Does his brother Ray know more than he is letting on? The mind blowing truth is totally unexpected,shocking and very chilling.
This mesmerising thriller has chapters that alternate between the early days of Kate and Scott's relashionship and Kate's obsessive quest to find out why Scott has vanished and where he had gone. The story is voiced from Kate's perspective,a wonderful character who had some complex issues including one that many many people have no idea that they suffer from,a addiction to social media. The obsessive need to check how many likes,shares and comments we have received on our various social media sites. An obsession that resulted in a bad incident whilst Kate was at work and caused her to do a self imposed social media detox. I really liked Kate's character,I loved her feisty attitude,her wonderful sense of humour and her battle of wits with her conscience. There was not many secondary characters in this story but the ones who had more input into events were Kate's best friend Izzy, Scott's brother Ray and Tyler,Kate's work partner after she moves to Brighton. Vivid characters who I didn't think were very likeable for various reasons.
Ghoster is a extremely well written thriller that has laugh out loud moments and moments that chill you to the bone. It's a totally enthralling mix of thriller,mystery,romance and the supernatural that had me hooked in from the first page,right through to the chilling conclusion. I genuinely didn't want to pit this book down. Worth far more than five stars and very very highly recommended
AUTHOR BIO
Jason Arnopp is the author of the new Orbit Books novel Ghoster, which Barnes & Noble's SFF blog has said, "just might qualify as the first true horror novel of the 21st Century." The Three author Sarah Lotz calls it, "a fiendishly smart exploration of obsession and social media addiction", while Cross Her Heat author Sarah Pinborough reckons it's, "twisty, creepy and utterly absorbing."
Arnopp's previous novel was The Last Days Of Jack Sparks (2016), which has been described as "a magnificent millennial nightmare" (Alan Moore), "scarier than watching The Exorcist in an abandoned asylum" (Sarah Lotz) and "The Omen for the social media age" (Christopher Brookmyre). Director Ron Howard (Apollo 13, Frost/Nixon, The Da Vinci Code) optioned the film rights shortly after the book's 2016 release.
Arnopp co-wrote the official behind-the-scenes book Inside Black Mirror with Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones.
Check out his four shorter-form fiction titles:
-- Beast In The Basement, a suspenseful, mind-blowing thriller novella
-- A Sincere Warning About The Entity In Your Home, a chilling and groundbreaking short story set in YOUR home
-- Auto Rewind, a dark, emotionally charged thriller novelette
-- American Hoarder, a supernatural creep-fest available only when you join the author's free mailing list at JasonArnopp.com
Arnopp previously wrote and executive-produced the Lionsgate feature film Stormhouse and script-edited the Peter Mullan feature The Man Inside. He has also written for the worlds of Doctor Who (BBC), The Sarah Jane Adventures (BBC) and Friday The 13th (New Line Cinema).
In his past life as a rock journalist, he interviewed the likes of Bon Jovi, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne and Guns N' Roses. He was once surrounded by angry guards holding semi-automatic weapons at The Vatican. His Slipknot biography, Slipknot: Inside The Sickness, Behind The Masks, was released in 2001 and is now available as a Kindle Edition. Arnopp has also written a guide to journalistic interviewing, entitled How To Interview Doctor Who, Ozzy Osbourne And Everyone Else, which is also out on Kindle.
Arnopp's latest non-fiction book is From The Front Lines Of Rock. Available in the Kindle Store now, it gathers 30 of his favourite nterviews he wrote as a rock journalist, with the likes of Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Iron Maiden, Korn, Kiss, Faith No More, Garbage, Nine Inch Nails and Green Day.
When you sign up for Arnopp's free newsletter at JasonArnopp.com, you can also download his short story American Hoarder for free. You might also want to check out his YouTube channel by searching for his name there. What a wonderful world.
PUBLICATION DATE: 22nd October 2019
PRINT LENGTH: 336 pages
PUBLISHER: Orbit
GENRE: Horror Thriller
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06X3V9VSX?pf_rd_p=3730611c-1654-405c-a45c-eec586a43cc7&pf_rd_r=X94RAGZQC3VX3FZ7E6RD
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