Inary McCrimmon has a gift. She can see people - ghosts - after they've died. Where she comes from they call it The Sight. But after a traumatic experience at the age of twelve, her gift has vanished. Now, fifteen years later, Inary is called away from her busy London life back to her home in Glen Avich. Her sister Emily is dying and moments after she passes Inary begs for her gift back so that she can say goodbye properly. Instead, she suddenly loses the ability to speak - except to two ghosts, neither of which is her sister. As Inary learns to communicate in other ways, she begins to open up through writing, her lifelong passion, to those closest to her. There's her brother Logan, who resents Inary but knows that she is now the only family he has left; her best friend Lesley in London who she has relied on through thick and thin; Alex, who could have been the one; and Taylor, the handsome American who wants to help mend her broken heart. But, for Inary, all is not as it seems. Her ghosts have harrowing and heartbreaking stories to tell and when one of them keeps repeating, 'Take me home,' Inary knows she must unlock this mystery to set herself free.
Against the backdrop of a Scottish Highland community, Take Me Home is a beautiful story of love, loss, discovering one's true abilities and - above all - never forgetting who you are.
This review was originally posted on Star Crossed Reviews I received this book for free for a Blog Tour in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Hello and Welcome to the first stop on on this blog tour. Thank you to Shaz at FABT for letting me take part. This was an absolutely wonderful story. This story is told from 3 different points of view; Inary's, her brother Logan's and her friend Alex's.
The prologue is a flashback to when Inary was 8 years old and it shows her fist discovering her gift.
Then we return to the present day Inary. She's working and living in London. She has left her brother and her unwell sisters in Scotland. While she is trying to get on with her lift she is a little broken. Part of her is in love with Alex but after how her last relationship ended she can't bring herself to let anyone else into her heart.
A typical night out with Alex turns into a night of passion. Inray wakes up full of worry and makes a big mistake. Then she hears from her brother that her sister's condition is now critical and she must return to Scotland.
We then follow Inary's return to Scotland and her journey. I found this really touching and inspiring. How she managed to cope without her voice for such a long time.
While Inray's in Scotland Alex is in London and he's torturing himself. He's in love with Inray but he doesn't see it ever working. He tells himself he must move on and she's never going to be ready for another relationship. These scenes are very difficult to read.
This was a really touching story. It's extremely well written to the point where you can feel the character emotions jumping out of the page. This was a story full of pain, suffering and loss and you feel every part of this. I welled up a lot.
