They decide to keep it as their own little secret to hold onto and decipher. There's a secret box that the girls find hidden underneath a floorboard in their room that holds strange papers, a bone knife, and other arcane objects. Linda Watkins' supernatural thriller, Mateguas Island, is an exciting and suspenseful story rich in Native American mythology and folklore. Also troubling are the old tales that the house is haunted, especially the woods behind it. Then there was the girls' teacher, Maggie, who seemed to have established an instant and intense connection with Bill. Karen is not at all that thrilled, however, as the island seems primitive and the amenities are nowhere near those she'd been accustomed to.
When Bill hears that his Aunt Janie has left him her big, old house on Mateguas Island, Maine, along with a small cash inheritance, it seems like a gift from the gods. Things were pretty bright for Bill, a rising Silicon Valley star, until a minor discretion with the boss's wife and the economic downturn made him the one to be laid off when his company downsized. Karen and Bill Anderson are a California couple with eight-year-old twin daughters. Mateguas Island is a horror/dark fantasy novel written by Linda Watkins. However, at times the horror seems like an afterthought, and the unquestioned use of conventional tropes-particularly the dreary cliché of the Native curse-prevent the plot from truly taking off.Reviewed by Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite The human drama and supernatural dread intertwine, and Watkins keeps the reader invested in Bill and Karen’s fates, though the twins are primarily vehicles for the exposition of clues. Meanwhile, Karen and Bill wrestle with their faltering marriage and their respective attractions to islanders Dex and Maggie. These elements are linked to an ancient curse that soon entangles them and threatens to destroy everything they hold dear. The four of them find strange things around their house, including cave paintings in the cellar, a beautiful forest that transforms into a dismal marsh, and an old box containing a mysterious document. Bill Andersen moves to the titular Maine island with his reluctant wife, Karen, and their eight-year-old twin daughters. In Watkins’s slow-building haunted house novel, the new home that’s supposed to save a disintegrating family turns out to hold horrors from the past.
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