Where do I begin? First off, I'll start by saying that this is not a romance. This is not a love story. There is no happily ever after. What this book is, is Helena Ross's final goodbye; she has three months to write this story. Three months to get it all out on paper and admit to the secrets she's been hiding for the past four years. Three months to confess. And her story? Never, EVER, has a story grabbed a hold of me like this one did. Never, EVER, has a story gutted me the way this one did. Never, EVER, has a book brought out so many different emotions in me like this one did. Never, EVER, will I forget or regret reading this book. 
 It was heartbreaking. It had my heart racing. I gasped. I laughed. I cried - God, I cried so much and so hard that I didn't think I'd stop. I got angry. I got sad. I was just an emotional wreck the more the story went on. This book was so real, so perfect, and so unique; it was beautifully written and just so captivating that from the very start I was hooked to this story, and NOTHING could have made me put it down, and all of that is how I know that this book is now, officially, one of my favourite books of all time. The Ghostwriter made me feel, and it's because of that that I know this is a story that's going to stay with me forever. 
 I did find the beginning to go a bit slow, but I think a lot of people may feel this way simply because this book is built entirely on anticipation, and it has you guessing as to what has happened from the very first page. This story is a mystery - a dark one at that - as we don't get the whole truth about Helena and what it is she's kept hidden for four years right away; we only get clues here and there throughout the story as to what is to come, and those clues always only ever had me more on the edge of my seat, and devouring these words more and more to get to the truth, and my God... Nothing could have prepared me for what happened. Nothing. 
 The Ghostwriter is the kind of book where you've just got to go into the story with an open mind, and let Helena tell her story. Go into The Ghostwriter, and let this story pull you in and consume you, and just don't stop reading until you've reached the very end. This won't be one of my long reviews simply because if I go into detail on ANYTHING, I fear I may give something away, because this story is filled with twists and turns and bombshells that had my eyes bugging out of my head and my jaw dropping. There was one bombshell here that actually had me laughing, because THAT? I didn't see THAT coming, and it was just so surprising and unexpected and random that there was nothing else for me to do BUT laugh. 
 This is only my second Alessandra Torre novel, and once again she has BLOWN ME AWAY! This woman knows how to write such gripping stories, and this one in particular... I loved it. I just want to go back and read it all over again, but I don't think my heart will be able to handle those last few chapters again so soon. Never have I cried so much in my life, but it's the tears that just goes to show how amazing this book was, and the fact that this story kept me up past midnight? It was that consuming, that gripping, that I gladly put sleep to the back of my mind to finish this story. I've got nothing more to say now, other than give this book a go yourself, and let these characters take you on one hell of an emotional journey, one that'll leave you speechless by the end. 
 ARC provided via Netgalley for honest review