It’s not a love story. It’s a story about love, falling in-love, falling out of love, and finding a valid reason to despise the person you fell in love with.
The Ghostwriter
By: Alessandra Torre
My rating: ★★★★★
The story:
Helena Ross is a popular romance author who finds herself suffering from cancer. The personalities of her characters in her books will make you think she has a perfect life, with all the love and happiness she writes in her book. Unfortunately, it’s actually the other way around. Helena is a loner and somehow not a lovable person in her fictional life (I wanted to say real life!).
She was given a few months to live and in her final moments, she ditches her ongoing novel and writes her own story – an absolution of what her life was about and the guilt that was killing her, in addition to the cancer. Her sickness gets to her and she was forced to hire a ghostwriter, her mortal enemy, Marka Vantly. Marka was an erotica writer who despises her books and frequently sends her hate mails involving criticisms to her works.
In the end, she was able to finish her story, with the help of Marka Vantly, and died by an assisted death.
THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ.
Hands down to Alessandra Torre. I was surprised to know that she was also the author of one of the erotic books I’ve read last year, Apartment 6E. That was also a good one. So much research was put into that book and I like that she does that. She puts so much effort in her stories, making them legit!
Anyway, this book. This freakishly awesome book made me sleep late so many nights. I wanted to finish this in one sitting (or lying) but I just had a lot of work so my only reading time was at night. This book forced me to shush my husband so many times because I was in so deep to the story that his constant babble annoyed me. Lol. I still love him so much though.
While reading the book, I constantly asked Helena why? Why? Why??? Marka Vantly’s part was already a great twist of events. I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING!
And the climax? When Helena revealed the reason why he hated his husband so much and decided to kill him? I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING!
And her daughter’s death? That broke my freaking heart! I pulled my own baby towards me and hugged him so tightly that night.
This book was just so unpredictable! It’s a suspense thriller but not the scary monster type. It’s a suspense because the author, Alessandra Torre, is just plain twisted – in a great way.
I love this book! I love love love this book!
My heart is still broken for Helena Ross-Parks.
Will I read more of Alessandra Torre’s books? Definitely – already selecting which one I’ll read first.
