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Liam MacGregor is cursed. Haunted by the wails of fantastical Bean Sidhes and labeled a demon by the villagers of Dòchas, Liam has accepted that things will never get better for him—until a wealthy heiress named Annabel Leighton arrives on the island and Liam’s fate is changed forever.

With Anna, Liam finally finds the happiness he has always been denied; but, the violent, mythical Otherworlders, who inhabit the island and the sea around it, have other plans. They make awager on the couple’s love, testing its strength through a series of cruel obstacles. But the tragedies draw Liam and Anna even closer. Frustrated, the creatures put the couple through one last trial—and this time it’s not only their love that’s in danger of being destroyed.

Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling poem, "Annabel Lee," Mary Lindsey creates a frighteningly beautiful gothic novel that glorifies the power of true love.

Ashes on the Waves by Mary Lindsey will be our First GBR for August 2015.

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Has anyone read anything similar to this before?

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Starting now. :)

Chapter 7 - This is pretty slow so far.

Chapter 17 - (view spoiler)[ I'm glad she offered her a job and a place to stay. (hide spoiler)]

Finished this while my internet was being annoying. Have to say i'm pretty glad to be finished.

Sarah wrote: "Pre-Reading Questions -

Anybody got any thoughts on this one before we start?

Has anyone read anything similar to this before?

Anybody read anything else by this author previously?"

I'm going to start this really soon, and I don't know what to expect from this: I never read something of this author, and in this period I'm not too in love with paranormal book, but I love all the fae and similar, so the Bean Sidhes are intriguing :)

3% and an overdose of Edgar Allan Poe

Beginning chapter 6 - this is proving to be pretty dark. And (view spoiler)[ I'm curious to find out what is actually wrong with his arm (hide spoiler)]

43% - this is quite slow, eh? I still don't know what exactly is the story here

Tati wrote: "43% - this is quite slow, eh? I still don't know what exactly is the story here"

I totally agree with you!

26% (view spoiler)[I'm sorry for Liam but it's a very slow reading! (hide spoiler)]

Tati wrote: "43% - this is quite slow, eh? I still don't know what exactly is the story here"

Yep! I found it quite slow all the way through.

32% (view spoiler)[Usually I can understand a lot of thing, but all the things that the people say about Liam are really incredible! Poor guy! But now it seems that something is happening... or at lest, I hope it! (hide spoiler)]

It took the author half the book to (view spoiler)[ set up that wager that will bring all kinds of trouble to the main characters? That is what I call slow paced... (hide spoiler)]

Tati wrote: "It took the author half the book to [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[it's seems so... I just reached the half of the book but it's very very slow going. It's really disappointing (hide spoiler)]

55% (view spoiler)[Boring, boring, boring. There are some mysteries and I love mystery usually, but it's all boring (hide spoiler)]

It is! I'm almost hoping it will end at around 85%, just so I don't have to read it until 100%

Tati wrote: "It is! I'm almost hoping it will end at around 85%, just so I don't have to read it until 100%"

Me too!!!!!!

64% (view spoiler)[ that is a veritable witch hunt. (hide spoiler)]

Tati wrote: "64% [spoilers removed]"

I agree! And it's very... annoying! I'm at 66% and (view spoiler)[I understand little and close community, but this is the worst thing ever! It can be all so mean, cruel, and the people can't have so strict views! I think that there are to be somethings positive on this Island!!! (hide spoiler)]

68% (view spoiler)[ Could his mother have been a Selkie? (hide spoiler)]

Tati wrote: "68% [spoilers removed]"

I think it's a good guess :)
I was thinking about stopping the reading for now and pick it up tomorrow (so I can read something more intersting and less annoying, I know that I say always the same things, but it's annoying!) but now I think I'll go on and try to finish this ASAP because I have enough of this!

Sibil wrote: "Tati wrote: "It took the author half the book to [spoilers removed]"

[spoilers removed]

55% [spoilers removed]"

I felt the same way.

Tati wrote: "It is! I'm almost hoping it will end at around 85%, just so I don't have to read it until 100%"

It was very very lucky to get 3 from me. It would have got 2.5 but i couldn't write the review. (Gr was being glitchy)

Tati wrote: "43% - this is quite slow, eh? I still don't know what exactly is the story here"

I read the first few chapters and found it pretty slow. Not a lot happening really.

finished! I menaged to finish this before I went to bed and I am really happy to be done with it! (view spoiler)[I know that I write so in every comment that I made, but poor Liam! I constantly feel sorry for him. And the mistery thing was boring, too, so it was a lot of boredome and nothing else. I'm really disappointed! (hide spoiler)]

Just started: I love that this opens with Annabel Lee, I really like that poem

Chapter 5: (view spoiler)[ I get it you, you like Edgar Allen Poe. Same. But it doesn't mean I'll start every chapter with a quote. Also, I don't understand this whole world?? Why is Liam cursed?? Also, why is he all over Anna like a rash? (hide spoiler)]

I'm about 60% through it and I am praying that this ends soon

It's not bad per say

but it's just so boring tbh

Connie wrote: "I'm about 60% through it and I am praying that this ends soon

It's not bad per say

but it's just so boring tbh"

I was thinking that all the way through. It felt like it would never end.

Connie, I felt exactly like that while reading it... If it weren't for the 5 points, I'd have given it up

Same here Tati lol

Abbie, I'm feeling that never ending thing, but I only have one book that I've never finished, I'm not ready to add another to the list :P

Just finished

I'm at 21%, it seems to have taken me days to get here! Have decided that this is sounds a lot better than it reads though, as it was alright when i had it on text-to-speech.

(view spoiler)[ So he thinks he killed his own mother when he was born, but then the selkie girl remembered him on a boat with his father? there's obviously something odd going on! (hide spoiler)]

Starting now :)

Connie wrote: "Just started: I love that this opens with Annabel Lee, I really like that poem"

Same here, that is one of my favourite poems.

65% (view spoiler)[ how sharp was that paintbrush? how much strength would you need to stab someone with a freaking paintbrush?! That sounds a little ridiculous to me! (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 5: (view spoiler)[ I really want to know why Liam is cursed? (hide spoiler)]

70% (view spoiler)[ She actually shed her pelt for Liam? She doesn't know him at all. What the heck is going to happen now? (hide spoiler)]

72% (view spoiler)[ he's really going to believe that letter? (hide spoiler)]

74% (view spoiler)[ this is getting so messy! he shouldn't be kissing maureen! (hide spoiler)]

21%: (view spoiler)[ This is a bit boring. Can't seem to read this fast. But I will. (hide spoiler)]

80% (view spoiler)[ I feel like Maureen is a totally different person to how she seemed at the beginning of the book, it's like she loses her mind when she loses her pelt! (hide spoiler)]

95% (view spoiler)[ I'm so glad Anna isn't dead! (hide spoiler)]

Sharon wrote: "21%: [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[ I was the same way, I liked it a lot more to listen to though, it irritated me when I read it properly. (hide spoiler)]

97% (view spoiler)[ No! I didn't want Anna to die! That is so sad ☹ (hide spoiler)]

The end (view spoiler)[ what a weird ending! (hide spoiler)]

Connie wrote: "I'm about 60% through it and I am praying that this ends soon

It's not bad per say

but it's just so boring tbh"

I agree with you, it is annoying me right now! This book is getting a 2.5 from me because it is too boring. Though, the premise was intriguing, the story doesn't hold that much excitement as other paranormal books I have read.

75%: (view spoiler)[ Why the hell did he allow Muireann to kiss him??? (hide spoiler)]