Rating: 
Summary: A deceiving read.
Review: I have been deceived with "Haunted". I will explain; I was very anxious to read this book since I just love books about hauntings. The book in itself is very well writen. The problem is: it lacks credibility, I mean, I know this is paranormal and fiction and having reading many of these, it is possible in my opinion, to have a fiction in which you can feel the story is alive and crédible. But it was not the case with "Haunted".Also, like another reviewer said, I found some of the other characters lacks judgment and were acting childishly. I don't mean to compare, far from that, but take "Imminent Thunder" by Rachel Lee. If you've read it, you will see that the story was so well-done that you could feel you were there. Another thing: The Heroine was not sympatetic to me. Not because she was not nice. I rather would say she lacked personality. Still I don't regret having read it but I was having so much entousiasm regarding this book. Thank you and please I am sorry for my orthograph since I am french speaking.
Thank you.
Rating:
Summary: A deceiving read.
Review: I have been deceived with "Haunted". I will explain; I was very anxious to read this book since I just love books about hauntings. The book in itself is very well writen. The problem is: it lacks credibility, I mean, I know this is paranormal and fiction and having reading many of these, it is possible in my opinion, to have a fiction in which you can feel the story is alive and crédible. But it was not the case with "Haunted". Also, like another reviewer said, I found some of the other characters lacks judgment and were acting childishly. I don't mean to compare, far from that, but take "Imminent Thunder" by Rachel Lee. If you've read it, you will see that the story was so well-done that you could feel you were there. Another thing: The Heroine was not sympatetic to me. Not because she was not nice. I rather would say she lacked personality. Still I don't regret having read it but I was having so much entousiasm regarding this book. Thank you and please I am sorry for my orthograph since I am french speaking.
Thank you.
Rating: 
Summary: Entertaining enough .. but no real 'meat'
Review: I loved "Haunted". I could not put it down and finished it in about two days. I recently bought another book ("Mimosa Grove" by Dinah McCall) just because it seemed similar to "Haunted". The plot is great, the characters are loveable. The ending wasn't out of this world, but it was still a great book!
Rating:
Summary: Entertaining enough .. but no real 'meat'
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book and I did finish it in two days, but I couldn't help but think there was some real decent 'meat' missing here. And although we're used to the 2 main characters being flat-out model-types--here not only were the heroine and hero 'gorgeous' but it seems the whole damn ranch was oozing with unbelievably handsome men. (WHERE is this place?) In real life-you'd only see this gathering of models on a red carpet. Matt Stone was a bit of a pill, some places unnecessarily just plain MEAN! (I'd have been outta there if someone treated ME that way---why did she stay???) Anyway, I recommend it as an entertaining read at the beach or a stormy night. :-)
Rating:
Summary: Not the best-
Review: I tried to read this and get thru it, but the book lost my interest in about three quarters of the way in-
This book is about a physic Darcy who has to go to a Civil War bed and breakfast, because a ghost is hauting the mansion. She meets the owner, and has a hate, then love relationship with him.
The character Matt Stone, was alittle too brusk for me, and he just seemed like a jerk, and I was sort of aggrivated by the
affair that Darcy and Jack tried to have.
sorry
Rating:
Summary: Ghostly happenings and romance...
Review: Matt Stone does not believe in ghosts, and he detests those that do, seeing them only as money grubbing con-artists. But something is happening at Melody House, the historic Stone family estate. While his friends and co-workers think that it's ghosts (which would be a boom for the tour business) Matt believes that it is decidely human in origin. Enter Darcy Tremayne, a psychic ghost hunter sent by her employer (who happens to be an old friend of the Stone family) to investigate and find out if it's a haunting or a humbug. What Darcy uncovers is a little of both. Haunted is an uneven book, the romance is underdeveloped, but I enjoyed the spooky stuff that surrounded it. Not a complete failure, but it falls short of being a truly rewarding read.
Rating:
Summary: Don't Bother
Review: Ms. Graham is usually a great author but this one was weak and very lame. The reltionship didn't really develop beyond ... and them *BAM* he loves her and suddenly not only believes in ghosts but has talked to Josh!? Also, the "mystery" was solved in such a predictable way. It was a chore to finish this one.
Rating: 
Summary: Don't Bother
Review: Seriously. This book is an insipid romance masquerading as a sub-par paranormal mystery. The heroine doesn't even have her own powers, for crying out loud -- she 'inherited' them from a saintly friend who died in high school, and they only work when the plot needs them to. The rest of the time her powers are just not mentioned, not even to give us a reason why they might be failing.
The mystery was overly complicated yet incredibly easy to figure out -- I pegged it by the midpoint. Despite the large, delineated mainly by gimmicks cast of characters, there's really only one option. The solution feels oddly tacked on, rootless in the scope of the book -- and at least one major 'heroine in peril' moment turned out to be exactly what it seemed, a freak accident with absolutely no connection to either ghosts or the villain.
The entire book felt very padded, and some scenes and dialogue were repeated several times with very slight variation -- even though, at a couple of points, the person uttering them again had, just a page or two before, appeared to completely change his viewpoint on the situation. The characters were one-dimensional and boring, the writing meandering and lifeless.
The worst part of the whole thing was that the author was always one note off. She chose the worst things to show as scenes and glossed over everything that might have been interesting with narrative or monologue. Add some glaring inconsistencies (the entire household comes running every time someone flees the haunted room screaming, yet loud, noisy sex in that same room elicits not so much as a knowing wink the next morning) and you have a waste of the two or three hours it'll take before you realize this book isn't going to get get any better.
Rating:
Summary: Boring
Review: The characters just didn't have the substance to hold my attention. At first, the plot and characters had so much potentional that I hoped this book would grab me, but it just never made it. The story was very tedious, predictable, no sparks and the subcharacters were silly and flighty. I gave it two stars only because of the potentional. I love Heather Graham's books written as Shannon Drake. However, as Heather Graham, her writing is passive / boring. This is not my first, but will be my last book to read of Heather Graham.
Rating: 
Summary: Excellent!!
Review: This book was excellent. I read it in one evening. Who cares if a book isn't credibile, is fiction suppose to be. I thought fiction mean not true/real. I'm going to go buy her other books now. Enjoy!
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