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The Secret of Sleepy Hollow
The Secret of Sleepy Hollow
The Secret of Sleepy Hollow
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The Secret of Sleepy Hollow

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Tabitha “Abby” Crane, a doctoral student working on her thesis, doesn’t allow herself much time outside academia. Fortunately, she’s managed to squeeze in a research trip over Halloween weekend to the historical society of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where she hopes to uncover new research on the notorious town’s most infamous legend—that of the headless horseman. But she has a personal stake in this trip: Abby’s own ancestor, Ichabod Crane, disappeared mysteriously over two hundred years ago, perhaps at the hands of the ghostly horseman.

Abby has no reason to expect anything of Sleepy Hollow beyond immersing herself in archival collections and enjoying its Halloween festivities, but then she crosses paths with Katie, who makes her head spin and her heart pound. When Katie invites her on a nighttime visit to the glen where the horseman allegedly rides, Abby can’t say no, upending her plans for a quiet research retreat. And when Abby and Katie, who has her own ties to the famous story, find what may be the key to the disappearance of Ichabod Crane all those years ago, love, legend, and magic intermingle, making clear that Sleepy Hollow has plans of its own for yet another Crane.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 23, 2015
ISBN9783955335175
The Secret of Sleepy Hollow
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Andi Marquette

Andi Marquette is a native of New Mexico and Colorado and an award-winning mystery, science fiction, and romance writer. She also has the dubious good fortune to be an editor who spent 15 years working in publishing, a career track that sucked her in while she was completing a doctorate in history. She is co-editor of "Skulls and Crossbones: Tales of Women Pirates" and "All You Can Eat: A Buffet of Lesbian Erotica and Romance". Her most recent novels are "Day of the Dead", the Goldie-nominated finalist "The Edge of Rebellion", and the romance "From the Hat Down", a follow-up to the Rainbow Award-winning novella, "From the Boots Up".When she’s not writing novels, novellas, and stories or co-editing anthologies, she serves as both an editor for Luna Station Quarterly, an ezine that features speculative fiction written by women and as co-admin of the popular blogsite Women and Words. When she’s not doing that, well, hopefully she’s managing to get a bit of sleep.

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    I categorize this one as an okay read. The writing is competent but I was fairly underwhelmed by the story and characters themselves. I wouldn't say that anything was "wrong" but it all felt bland to me. I think others may enjoy this one more than I did, though.

    Part of the reason for my impression may be because I was thinking we'd get thrown back in time or it would be a historical narrative. I didn't read the blurb so that could be all on me. So, I kept waiting for that to kick in but nope. We just stay in present day. The main characters spend the book piecing together the puzzle of what the real elements behind "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" actually are based upon historical documents. Not exactly riveting.

    The other reason is that I saw the twist, or reveal (whatever you want to call it), from about the first sentence so I kept waiting for the main characters to catch up. And they took a very, very long while to do so.

    There is an ambiguous paranormal element but it's really up to the reader to decide which way they want to go.

    So, overall, an okay read. Not bad but not great, either.

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