Petra's Ghost

Petra's Ghost is obviously a ghost story but it is also an exploration of human nature; specifically, how we face our own demons from our past. The novel takes place on the very real Camino de Santiago trail, an ancient five-hundred-mile pilgrimage that crosses northern Spain. Daniel is traveling the trail carrying not only his late wife's ashes (Petra) but also harboring a dark secret. Along the way he meets Ginny who is also on the pilgrimage for her own private reasons. When a mysterious apparition begins to follow them, Daniel is forced to face the unspeakable truth about the way Petra died and other horrors that happened on the trail itself. I enjoyed the beginning of the book especially learning about the Camino de Santiago trail but as time went on I found the events to be a bit repetitive and it was hard to stay interested though I did manage to finish the book. The strength of the book (to me) was the vivid description that really brought the trail and the people traveling it to life.

3/5 Stars