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First off, I'm not sure I'd categorise this as a horror. It's a great hook to snag the reader's interest, but Lisa being dead & a ghost (not a spoiler, it's made clear from the start) is almost incidental to most of the book. What it is, is a study of toxic relationships. All those little comments & digs, the gaslighting, the lovebombing. The ending is not quite satisfying enough, although realistic in many ways, so 4🌟

Lisa Evans hangs around Peterborough Train station all the time and sees a man sitting on platform seven. She knows what that means and she tries to stop him. Two deaths on plalform seven are they connected. We learn about Lisa and what happened to her in flashbacks and she as the narrator tells about the station staff and some members of public she sees and their connection to the deaths. It was not what I expected but still a good read.

My alpabet challenge for letter D is as follows:

Dominicana by Angie Cruz
Plalform Seven by Louise Doughty

I have read Dominicana already and it was good. I start Plaform Seven tomorrow!

Who has read any of these two?

This book is hauntingly told from the perspective of the ghost of a woman who has committed suicide at this train station and now her spirit is trapped at the station observing the station staff, other commuters and other people contemplating suicide at the station. Lisa takes us back through her marriage, what led to her death and also observes her husband in his current relationship. It was a pageturner that I couldn't stop thinking about.

Interesting but bittersweet book. 3/5

Platform Seven has one of the most misleading synopses that I have ever read. It makes you expect the book to be a mystery/thriller, but instead, it is essentially a slow moving character study. The book ended up dragging on too long with too many unnecessary side characters and mundane details for me to remain invested. It was February‘s pick for the #LiterallyDeadBookclub but unfortunately it was only a 2 star read for me.

This book wasn‘t what I expected - I thought I was going to get a detective/murder mystery kind of story, but it was better! A ghost narrating what led to her death... what a great story!! The bad guy was a really bad guy, the secondary characters were so well drawn, the ending was really positive. I enjoyed this so much.

#BookMail Pt2 This one wasn‘t a preorder but I couldn‘t resist a signed copy of this spooky thriller, so I added it to my Waterstones order. Platforms rm seven at Peterborough Station seems to be cursed. Two deaths in 18 months. Are they connected? And is the platform haunted. Sounds intriguing, perfect for this time of year.

A gripping supernatural psychological thriller. Wonderfully well written. It‘s a slow burning story which draws you in gradually and then keeps you hooked until the very end. It describes perfectly the seemingly charming but manipulative and possessive partner in an abusive relationship. There are some great thought provoking observations throughout the book which are so thought provoking. Dark, compelling and moving with a unique narrator.