Kim ~ It’s All About the Thrill's Reviews > Ghosts of Harvard

This is a book that revolves around the suicide of a family member and how the family struggles to cope and understand. The writing is impeccable! The writer spent a great deal of time researching and fine tuning it down to every detail. It was very impressive.

After Eric takes his own life one night in April on the campus of Harvard. His sister Cady decided to follow in his footsteps and attend Harvard. She longs to find answers to the questions she has about her brother's last days.

The story takes an odd turn as Cady starts hearing voices once she gets to Harvard. Yet they are not the voice of her brother but people from the past. People that have lived in these very buildings around her and made up the history of this school. She panics as she realizes that the first sign her brother had were voices in his head. She worries that genetics may be taking her down the same road. Except these voices are telling her things that are historically true. Is the stress of it all triggering the first symptoms of schizophrenia or is she truly having a supernatural experience within the walls of Harvard?

Although I did enjoy the story, it was a very slow burn for me. I knew from the blurb that it would be based on suicide and mental illness but I expected more of that to be part of the story and not the majority of it. There is alot of talk about suicide and it was a bit hard to push through at times. It was beautifully written and a very impressive amount of research was done into the the arts, physics and history of the University. I was hoping for a bit of a ghostly eerie, gothic vibe. I am sure many will really enjoy this story though, it just wasn't for me.

Thank you so much to Random House for this ARC.