For the first time, Ruth is heading to Newfoundland to stay with family she’s never met instead of spending the summer traveling with her dad. When she arrives, she finds Newfoundland is very different from her life in Toronto–people there are much more friendly, but also superstitious, believing in ghosts and The Sight and family curses. Ruth’s cousin Ruby is also staying for the summer, and the two discover they have a lot in common: they both lost their moms when they were two years old, they’re the same age and they even like the same food. But while Ruby believes in spirits and fairies, Ruth believes in science and cold, hard facts.
When they find ominous information on some tombstones in the local cemetery, Ruth and Ruby start investigating their family’s past and discover that twin girls are born in every generation, and every set of twins dies young, leaving their children without mothers. What’s more, one of the twins always has The Sight and can see the Ghost Road that leads to the mysterious lost settlement of Slippers Cove. What happened there? What does it have to do with their family? And who is the ghostly presence that keeps visiting Ruth late at night?
It is great! It captivated me and made me feel like I was right there experiencing everything. I like the twists and turns the book took. It was action packed and it made me never want to put down the book. I love the concept of Ruby and Ruth being polar opposites but becoming close. I absolutely love the way everything was described, to the scenery to even the food. This book made me want to go to Newfoundland, just by the ways things were described or portrayed. All the characters were interesting and all very different. I would certainly pick up this book again and read it. I would even consider it one of my all time favourites.