REVIEW: EBENEZER SCROOGE, GHOST HUNTER BY JACQUELINE KYLE (BLOG TOUR)

 



About the Author

 

 

 

 

Jaqueline Kyle once stood on top of an active nuclear reactor. It glowed. She dove the Great Barrier Reef and the fish swarmed to check HER out. On her 16th birthday she flew a plane solo – just to enjoy the view. She once ran a marathon - because it was faster than walking. When she bungee jumps, she always goes first, so her friends can jump off the bridge after her. Jaqueline Kyle is not the most interesting man in the world – because she’s a woman.

 

 

About the Book

 

 



Ebenezer Scrooge: Ghost Hunter expands the original text of Charles Dicken’s classic with all-new scenes of malicious ghosts, soul devouring wraiths, deadly doppelgangers and other terrors from the netherworld. Our story opens seven years after Marley’s violent death. Ebenezer Scrooge has given up ghost hunting and embraced an inevitable slow death by alcohol poisoning. When the spectre of his deceased partner appears to him on Christmas Eve, Scrooge learns that he must face three Ghosts – one who will try to help him, one who will try to harm him and one that cannot be killed.

In a story that spans a lifetime of torment, Scrooge must face the demons of his past and his failures in the present in order to prevent the horror that is his future. The stakes for Scrooge’s soul have never been higher than in this wicked retelling of the classic, A Christmas Carol.

 

 

My Review

 

Often I find that, when I read books like this, it is easy to distinguish one author's work from another. Not so in this book.

 

It is absolutely seamless, and I was really surprised to find that I would never be able to pick out Kyle's work from Dickens'. It is absolutely extraordinary that Kyle has managed to blend her work so much into Dickens' that without having a copy of the original book I would never be able to tell the difference.

 

Kyle adds a whole new layer to the story, a completely new storyline, without devaluing or hiding Dickens' original novel. It is clear she honours Dickens and A Christmas Carol by the way she uses her own writing to highlight Dickens'.

 

I absolutely adore this retelling, and the changes in certain characters. Scrooge, especially, is presented as much more relatable and a warmer character, more understandable. That gives a whole new perspective on his character for the reader, which is something I really enjoyed.

 

It's a beautiful retelling, eloquent and gorgeously written. Thank you so much to the author Jacqueline Kyle for giving me the opportunity to review this for its blog tour.