The End of Temperance Dare

Posted on 20 November 2017 by Wendy Webb

Haunting and atmospheric, The End of Temperance Dare is another thrilling page turner from the author reviewers are calling the Queen of the Northern Gothic.When Eleanor Harper becomes the director of a renowned artists retreat, she knows nothing of Cliffside Manor s dark past as a tuberculosis sanatorium, a waiting room for death After years of covering murder and violence as a crime reporter, Eleanor hopes that being around artists and writers in this new job will be a peaceful retreat for her as much as for them.But from her first fog filled moments on the manor s grounds, Eleanor is seized by a sense of impending doom and realizes there s to the institution than its reputation of being a haven for creativity After the arrival of the new fellows including the intriguing, handsome photographer Richard Banks she begins to suspect that her predecessor chose the group with a dangerous purpose in mind As the chilling mysteries of Cliffside Manor unravel and the eerie sins of the past are exposed, Eleanor must fight to save the fellows and herself from sinister forces. Free Download The End of Temperance Dare by Wendy Webb For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr When I first spied this book as a pre order on my kindle, I knew I had to learnabout it The description yelled READ ME and sounded so incredibly different than most anything I ve read before published by Lake Union that I literally could not hit the request button fast enough on NetGalley Fast forward to this week and I finally was able to carve out the time to read it I was gripped from the very first chapter I ve not read a book by Webb before but I ve heard from all over how well sh When I first spied this book as a pre order on my kindle, I knew I had to learnabout it The description yelled READ ME and sounded so incredibly different than most anything I ve read before published by Lake Union that I literally could not hit the request button fast enough on NetGalley Fast forward to this week and I finally was able to carve out the time to read it I was gripped from the very first chapter I ve not read a book by Webb before but I ve heard from all over ho...Many of us as readers have our guilty reading pleasure For some it is lighter reads than we normally read, maybe bodice rippers, but or me it is ghost stories Not so much cheaper horror but ghost stories set in spooky settings This one fit the bill nicely Set on the shores of Lake Superior in a building that at one time was a TB sanitarium, it is now an artist s retreat In the past though it was a place where many died or were waiting to die It was owned by the Dare family and in this book Many of us as readers have our guilty reading pleasure For some it is lighter reads than we normally read, maybe bodice rippers, but or me it is ghost stories Not so much cheaper horror but ghost stories set in spooky settings This one fit the bill nicely Set on the shores of Lake Superior in a building that at one time was a TB sanitarium, it is now an artist s retreat In the past though it was a place wher...Eleanor Harper has spent her life as a crime journalist facing some of the most horrifying incidences, so when she suddenly starts to have severe anxiety and fear it confuses her No longer able to do her job, Eleanor is fired and applies for a position at Cliffside Manor as the new director of the renowned artist s retreat Eleanor had once previously visited the manor to interview Penny Dare, the current director, about the death of her father and sister Through out the years she felt drawn t Eleanor Harper has spent her life as a crime journalist facing some of the most horrifying incidences, so when she suddenly starts to have severe anxiety and fear it confuses her No longer able to do her job, Eleanor is fired and applies for a p...Another absolutely engrossing and creepy tale from Ms Webb I have read all her books and she is an auto buy author for me Southern Gothic is one of my favorite genres but Ms Webb writes Northern Gothic and her novels are set around The Great Lakes Extremely atmospheric T...A creepy and atmospheric tale This is one to curl up with on a stormy night You might want to keep a light on, though You never know what s lurking about Eleanor Harper is ready for a change She s spent most of her life as a crime reporter, but it s finally getting to her She just doesn t have the heart for it any When she learns of a tempting job opening, she s excited A long time director of a retreat for artists is finally retiring It s quite a departure from her journalism, bu A creepy and atmospheric tale This is one to curl up with on a stormy night You might want to keep a light on, though You never know what s lurking about Eleanor Harper is ready for a change She s spent most of her life as a crime reporter, but it s finally getting to her She just doesn t have the heart for it any When she learns of a tempting job opening, she s excited A long time director of a retreat for artis... As a BIG fan of haunted houses did The End of Temperance Dare really appeal to me I mean an artist retreat that used to be a tuberculosis sanatorium Count me inNow, this book isn t particularly scary, but it s interesting, atmospheric and well written I like that one really gets to know Eleanor Harper and that not everything happens too fast It s not like the story is boring, the pacing is even, and we get to follow Eleanor as she learns the ropes of being the new director She has hardly As a BIG fan of haunted houses did The End of Temperance Dare really appeal to me I mean an artist retreat that used to be a tuberculosis sanatorium Count me inNow, this book isn t particularly scary, but it s interesting, atmospheric and well written I like that one really gets to know Eleanor Harper and that not everything happens too fast It s not like the story is boring, the pacing is even, and we get to follow Eleanor as she learns the ropes of being the new director She has hardly settled in before something unexpected happens that will change everything for her and the retreat and after that, well strange things keep happening But, is the place really haunted The End of Temperance Dare is the first book I have read by Wendy Webb and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the book Not that I did not...DNF 35%I was really looking forward to this one It was classed as a mystery horror, doesn t that sound just so perfect for me Unfortunately there was too much wrong with this book for me to be interested in delving into it any further.My first annoyance with this book was how clunky the writing was Nothing flowed particularly well, and even though some of the descriptions were well done, it didn t do anything to help the overall feel of the novel.Eleanor Harper is a grown woman, yet she tal DNF 35%I was really looking forward to this one It was classed as a mystery horror, doesn t that sound just so perfect for me Unfortunately there was too much wrong with this book for me to be interested in delving into it any further.My first annoyance with this book was how clunky the writing was Nothing flowed particularly well, and even though some of the descriptions were well done, it didn t do anything to help the overall feel of ...Picking this book off of the new shelf at the library just because of the cover, I am perplexed how to react, andso how to rate it At one time I had a dress just like the girl s and loved those style sleeves with the dip in the middle This book It s fantasy It s romance It s neither It s horror or a ghost story What it is FOR SURE, is unreliable And not only in the narrator.People could easily rate this anywhere on the scale of 1 to 4 stars, IMHO And I could understand why depen Picking this book off of the new shelf at the library just because of the cover, I am perplexed how to react, andso how to rate it At one time I had a dress just like the girl s and loved those style sleeves with the dip in the middle This book It s fantasy It s romance It s neither It s horror or a ghost story What it is FOR SURE, is unreliable And not only in the narrator.People could easily rate this anywhere on the scale of 1 to 4 stars, IMHO And I could understand why depending upon their imagination level factors ...I received this ARC from netgalley.com in exchange for a review Eleanor Harper is ready for a change in her job and in her life When she takes the job as the director of a renowned artists retreat, she knows nothing of Cliffside Manor s dark past as a tuberculosis sanatorium, a waiting room for death A pretty good ghost story full of creative story twists without bloody grotesque language It s all about your imagination and I can imagine myself sitting around a campfire in the great nort I received this ARC from netgalley.com in exchange for a review Eleanor Harper is ready for a change in her job and in her life When she takes the job as the director of a renowned artists retreat, she knows nothing of Cliffside Manor s dark past as a tuberculosis sanatorium, a waiting room for death A pretty good ghost story full of creative story twists without bloody grotesque language It s all about your imagination and I can imag...5 5 Stars This may be my favorite Wendy Webb novel to date It definitely had the most fleshed out plot and characters of her four books, and this one was WAY creepy It was like Rose Red with possession Eleanor was a fantastic narrator, and I loved figuring out the mystery of the Dare family and Cliffside Manor right there with her I had a feeling about the story the whole time, but I had no idea such a crazy twist was coming I recommend...

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20 November 2017

Wendy Webb