The Girl on Legare Street

The Girl on Legare Street by Karen White

In this sequel to The House On Tradd Street, when Melanie Middleton was seven years old her mother, Ginnette, left home, abandoning her husband and her daughter. Now, nearly thirty-three years later, Ginnette has returned to Charleston, South Carolina, to confront her past and make amends with the daughter she left behind. Melanie is less than thrilled when her mother reappears in her life and asks for her help in buying back the family home. But before she can slam the door in her mother s face, Ginnette tells her it was a premonition that brought her back a premonition involving old family secrets and a malevolent presence. It has come for Melanie, and to fight it, they will have to stand together.

-FantasticFiction

I did not enjoy this second book in Karen White's Tradd Street series quite as much as the first.  She seemed to have a hard time determining what she wanted this to be...mystery, romance, paranormal, comedy, historical family saga.....The story got quite confusing at times between dead characters as well as a seemingly constant flip-flop of relationships and feelings between the main characters in the book (one minute enemies, the next minute friends working together to solve the mystery, then back to being enemies again working against each other).  White also seemed to leave a number of issues unresolved by the end of the book....possibly in the next one????  Not sure I want to go on to the next one someday.  I can only give this book three stars***.

-MONA