Halfway There: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (Midlife Mulligan Book 1) by Eve Langlais - Review

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Blurb About The Book

The First In A New Paranormal Women's Fiction Series, Suddenly Psychic is part of a huge #PWF Launch featuring 13 Authors!

A Paranormal Women's Fiction novel for anyone who thought adventure and magic stopped at forty. Guess again, it's just the beginning.

I never expected I'd be one of those people who had a midlife crisis. Sure, I'm over forty, and married, but my kids are grown and moved out. Life is steady, if predictably boring.

That all changes when my husband asks for a divorce and my whole world crashes. Everything I thought I knew, everything I am, gone in an instant.
But I am not about to give up. After all, at my age, technically, I'm only halfway there.

I am ready to tackle my do-over; my chance to become the me I've always dreamed of. Starting with moving into my late grandma's cottage and adopting a new kitten.

However, my new life is a little odder than expected. Old books suddenly appearing in my house. Neighbors going missing. A supposed lake monster, and a strange man who likes to skulk around with an axe.

I'm going to need to lean on my friends, new and old, to help me navigate my midlife crisis. Together maybe we will find a way to beat the family curse ruining my second chance at life.

Review

I discovered this book as part of the newly released #PWF Fab 13.  Eve Langlais is a new to me author and sadly I don't think this was the best introduction for me.

It's very difficult to explain what I thought about this book without giving away spoilers, which generally in reviews I am not a fan of, but I will say that this was nothing that I was expecting. 

The pacing of the book didn't work for me, it felt slow and dragged out, and by the time I got to the end I found myself questioning what the point of a lot of it was.  

I think the biggest disappointment for me was how the paranormal side was handled.  To say more would basically give away most of the plot, but although the end left things open for things to start happening in book 2, book 1 didn't go in any direction I could have anticipated, and not in the "oh that is an awesome twist kind of way". 

I don't look at other reviews before reading a book, but I did sneak a peek before writing my review, and for the most part it seems as though I may be out here on my own little ledge with this opinion.  With the exception of a couple of bloggers, readers in general seem to be loving it.   Perhaps they were already fans, or perhaps I am too picky.  Either way it doesn't change my opinion.

A sadly just scraping in at 3 stars from me.