Pharos
Alice Thompson
(Reviewer - Narayan Radhakrishnan)
2003 Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN: 0312318103

A Ghost Story. A young woman is washed up on the shores of Jacob's Rock, a remote island off the coast of Scotland.

Sr. Reviewer Narayan Radhakrishnan writes:

Alice Thompson presents a haunting & powerful story of ghosts & enslavement following the success of Justine & Pandora's Box.

Pharos is not a good book ... it is not fantastic ... it is not superb. What it is is an excellent, fantabulous & astounding work that can be best described as gracefully elegant.

Set in the late 1820s, Pharos is the story of two unique individuals, a deeply religious lighthouse keeper & a strange shipwrecked girl who has lost her memory.

Cameron Black enjoys a solitary life in a small island near Scotland. He also has an assistant in Simon. Except for the two there is no human life anywhere. All that changes when a girl is washed ashore. Other than a locket around her neck with a picture of a ship inside it -- she is nude. Although she has no memories whatsoever, she is normal. However, she sees things, which the males dismiss as hallucinations. But as days go by, the “hallucinations” become more & more intense. She insists that it's not just her imagination -- & that there is something wrong in the island -- something evil, something paranormal.

What follows is an amazing tale -- that is pure horror, but not terror, suspense filled & thoroughly engrossing down to the last page.

Good, no make that great to the last word!

Highly, highly recommended.
(01/04/04)

Narayan
2004©Narayan Radhakrishnan
A RebeccasReads.Com Sr. Associate Reviewer

Reviewer's Bio:
I am a 26 years old lawyer practicing in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Along with my legal practice, I have finished post-graduate studies for both Business Law & Human Rights. I am a self proclaimed numero-uno legal thriller lover & am the proud owner of all of Grisham's & Turow's novels. I enjoy John Mortimer's Rumpole & relish an occasional Martini & a rare Scot(ch)t-oline with a Patterson on the side.

My work A FICTION OF LAW is now about 500 pages in length & features 500 lawyer authors & 2000 legal thrillers covering a 300 year period - inclusive of entries from the USA, UK, Asia, Europe, China, Middle East etc. Still in search of a publisher.
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