The Hanged Man and the Fortune Teller by Lucy BanksMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I was provided an ARC of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This book will be released on September 3, 2019.
This was a bit different from Banks' other works I've read. It still delves into the paranormal, but this is a bit more on the historical fiction side. This follows a ghost throughout his afterlife as he is trying to remember what happened to him and he is looking for his wife. Surely their love would tether her to this world as it has him, right? He is accompanied by Agnes, the ghost of a women he met during his life, and she tries to remind him of his life and why he keeps visiting the people and places he does.
This book jumps around from our main characters current time as a ghost, then back in time to when he was alive, and many years in between when he was alive and after his death. The timeline is not linear and the story is slowly told through the time jumps. We learn why the ghost is drawn to the people he is drawn to, what happens to his family, and how he died. These things unfold overtime as you jump around from the 1870's, 2017, and all over the 1900's.
This is a story of love, loss, family, and the human condition. Unlike Bank's other books I've read this stayed pretty serious throughout. The ghost is drawn to people with sad, painful energy and the feel of the book is fairly somber. Banks tells a good story, but I prefer linear timelines, and I prefer her other works that have a bit of comic relief. This was just a bit too sad for my liking.
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