Secrets Of The Starlit Sea

I am not a fan of books about ghosts and time travel. This book came to me through my book club and I was resigned to wasting a bit of time but doing it because I should. The weak beginning did nothing change my mind aabout this.
Pixie Tate has the psychic ability to contact "people from the other side" and help the spirits to accept their death and to solve whatever is keeping them causing upset to this realm we live in.
She becomes involved in aiding one of the opulent New York City hotels that is having an issue and in doing so "travels" into the past and into a great tragedy.She comes face to face with the great love of her life as well as complete her mission.
This is a pretty sappy love story but I enjoyed reading it. It was simplistic, silly and not a challenging story or read, I would, however, recommend it for a vacation read because it was a bit fun, relaxing and if I had lost the book in traveling I would have not been upset.

Pixie Tate has both psychic powers and the ability to travel back in time. Both of these attributes are used to the full in this novel as she is hired by a grand hotel in New York in order to solve a present day psychic problem that has arisen and finds herself transported back to one of the most famous events in history. She relives this incident and experiences its ordeals first hand.

Before I even started this book I was not only convinced that I wasn’t going to like it but also determined not to. Not an auspicious start. Psychic stuff, ghosts, spirits, time travel etc. are just not my thing and it was perfectly obvious from the blurb that all of these were going to feature quite heavily. It was therefore much to my surprise, and to the author’s credit, that I was proved completely wrong. The book doesn’t take itself too seriously and I just went along with it for the ride and had an unexpectedly good time.
The characters are not only engaging and likeable, they are also quirky, eccentric and interesting and well developed by the author.
The historical event around which the story is centred is well researched and accurately portrayed.

There is nothing specific that I would criticise about the book – it is what it is and it does it well.

I may even go back and read the first one in the series – a high recommendation indeed from someone who was pre-programmed to dismiss this book out of hand.