I wanted to love this book, and I did enjoy it for the most part. That being said, here comes the nitpicking. The pacing was odd, and I'm not sure if it is something to do with the serial nature of the writing, with multiple authors penning different "episodes" or what. It goes from spooky, to seductive, to complete and utter chaos, and each time feel like I'm not quite sure how I got there. There were times where it went slow enough to savor every detail (without getting boring) but then there were other things that happened so fast and were over before I even had time to really settle in mentally with what was happening.

Also, I had to laugh because at the beginning of the book I was already side eyeing some feminist themes like, oh no, is this going to be a thing? And then the end (not spoiling) felt to me like basically the bright light of feminism against the evil of domineering men, lol. I cringed a little.

There was romance in the book, more than I was expecting, and I was pleasantly surprised by it right up till the end. It felt a bit vague... but I'm going to choose to believe that it ended the way I wanted it to, so okay. ;)

I thought this was such a great book. Once I got started it was hard to put down. I love the format of the story where it is like a tv show. Each chapter is set up as an episode. I like the characters of the story. Beatrix and James are two great characters. I like how Beatrix has her career as being a medium, but she is a hoax. Then she meets James who wanted her help in seeing if Ashbury Manor is a haunted house or not. This was full of twist and turns and got even a bit creepy. I highly recommend this during the Halloween season.

Oh what a perfect pre-Halloween story! This was a very quick read and very engaging and fun. The characters were well-developed, and the atmosphere suitably creepy. The story was a blend of spiritualism and the Occult and horror and romance and it sped by as I read... I will definitely look for more in this series - Beatrix is a delightful character and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting her!

A spiritual medium, a disbelieving scientist, a haunted house and vengeful sprits make for a perfect spooky fall read.

Beatrix Greene has been invited to Ashbury Manor by James Walker. They are accompanied by her her friend and a photographer. Mr. Walker is not very upfront about his intentions but the money he is offering seals the deal. Is the house really haunted?

This proved to be a fast, engaging and riveting page turner for me. Very Gothic, very atmospheric, and very entertaining. The story flowed smoothly. I enjoyed that nothing felt like filler. This is a short book with a HUGE payoff in enjoyability. Spooky, creepy, tense and with a sense of dread, this story never disappointed.

Will this book and its characters haunt you? They did me!

Thank you to Serial Box and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.

it was the perfect read for someone -like me- who wants something spooky for the halloween season, but also is super easily scared and would like to still be able to sleep at night. i loved the victorian setting, it gave me chills. the haunted house thing was really well done and it was, over all, a fast and fun read.

3.5 stars
Wow! This was so much fun to read! It was not necessarily scary, but it was very entertaining with some twists that had me gasping out loud.

The Haunting of Beatrix Greene follows our heroine as she accepts James Walker’s job offer to hold a séance at the (presumably) haunted Ashbury Manor. Lo and behold, things are not what they seem…

This little novella was told in serials. I found this so interesting and unique because it enhanced the reading experience. The book read like a movie, fast-paced and gripping. No word was wasted. The plot was predictable but it was still fun to read. I definitely suggest going into this blind. My one complaint about this was that there were a couple of plot holes that were not addressed. Hopefully, they will be in the sequel.

Additionally, the writing style was great and consistent, considering there are three authors writing each episode. The book flowed really nicely.

In terms of the characters, I loved Beatrix, Haz and Amanda. Beatrix was such a strong-willed character and I loved her tenacity. I wished we got to see more of Haz though, he was such an interesting character.
The one thing I did not really like was the romance. It progressed too quickly for my liking and felt underdeveloped.

Overall, this was such an entertaining read, perfect for spooky season!

The Haunting of Beatrix Greene by Rachel Hawkins, Ash Parsons, Vicky Alvear Shecter
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Beatrix Greene is a well known medium who brings hope and closure to the people of Victorian London. There is just one catch, she doesn't believe in ghosts.
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When James Walker, a scientist known for discrediting charlatans offers her a large sum of money to spend a night in a haunted manor in order to prove or disprove the existence of ghosts she is convinced it's a trap to expose her ruse. Even so she is confident in her ability to convince him, especially with a life changing amount of money on the line, and she accepts the job. Upon arrival at Ashbury Manor she discovers that the home's haunting is intertwined with James' haunted past and a night of frantic horror follows.
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She came for the money but she will be lucky to escape with her life.
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This is more of a short story than a novel, but the pages are packed with Gothic horror and some unexpected gore. A great, quick read for the spooky season!
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Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher, Serial Box, for providing me with a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own.

The Haunting of Beatrix Greene is the first Serial Box story in which I have read all of a season's episodes. The episodes are told from the dual perspectives of Beatrix and James. The story begins with James Walker, a reputable man of science, requesting the assistance of Beatrix Greene, a known psychic, to determine whether there is a presence of supernatural activity at Ashbury House. Not long after their arrival at Ashbury House, James and Beatrix soon realize that more is occurring at Ashbury House than they had originally believed.

The Haunting of Beatrix Greene was a surprisingly good read! It contained several spooky elements, a dash of romance, and an intriguing plot. For those individuals who are looking for a spooky read for Fall, The Haunting of Beatrix Greene is one that they should definitely pick up. Many thanks to Serial Box and NetGalley for the e-ARC!

I liked the gothic feel to this story. I was not expecting to be that creeped out, but I was. The drama and spookiness slowly crept in, which is perfect for a horror. The season/episodes instead of chapters was interesting. I was wary about different authors for different chapters, but it ended up working well. It flowed and meshed well. I was not able to tell there were different authors and there was no choppiness as I feared.

I loved this book! It was gothic, haunting, suspenseful. If you don't mind someting a little dark, this is the book for you! great story!

My Thoughts
I had no idea this was a book presented as a serial until I started reading it. Thankfully, I was provided with the full book from NetGalley to read and review. Serialbox.com currently has the first part (or episode as they call it) available online with the remaining parts of the serial scheduled to be released between now and the end of 2020. Here are my pros and cons for The Haunting of Beatrix Greene:

Pros

1. This is written by three different authors. Each author was individually responsible for different chapters in the book. I was pleasantly surprised that I did not notice any abrupt style changes or continuity issues between chapters and authors. As a matter of fact, I don’t think I would have ever guessed different people wrote different chapters at all! To me that is a testament to the ability of the authors to write a cohesive story even though they were writing separately!
2. This book is full of typical haunted house tropes, even the ones I am generally tired of at this point in my life, but somehow it still worked for me. I was getting some strong vibes of The Haunting of Hill House (by Shirley Jackson), too, so I have to wonder if the authors were inspired by that book.
3. The scary parts were definitely scary! The atmosphere was well-defined and tensions were definitely high.
4. There was an interesting, but short-lived, appearance by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
5. Awesome Victorian gothic feel to the story.
6. The house was the best character in the book.
7. The book is written from different POVs and each new POV is clearly identified. I know some people dislike this kind of writing, but I think it worked very well in this story.

Cons

1. The whole romance plot line was weird and excessively fast… but very Victorian.
2. My main beef about the book is that it is never really clear what is haunting the house. I needed some “why”, “what”, and/or “who” questions answered and I never got satisfactory information.
3. Character development wasn’t strong for anyone. I wanted a lot more.
4. The title felt incongruous with the actual story. Beatrix wasn’t really haunted, but instead simply discovered she had a true gift as a medium (in the synopsis, so not a spoiler). I think The Haunting of Ashbury Manor might have been a better title… or even something that doesn’t start with “The Haunting of…” as that is starting to be overdone in my opinion.

Summary
This is a short and scary October read. Yes, I thought it had some issues and a few tweaks could make this a really great novel, but overall I enjoyed reading it and I would recommend it.

Thank you NetGalley and Serial Box for a free eARC of this book, which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

Wonderful book to read! Thank you so very much for the opportunity. Looking really forward to being able and read more from this author in the near future. I recommend this to everyone and anyone. I would rate it a 4 and a half out of 5 stars

I want to talk about the characters first but I didn't quite found any specific traits or things that makes their whole character unique. I just think that Beatrix Greene is your typical "fake" medium in books like this one or James is that love interest being so "confidently walked the earth like it was his" type. I can't distinguished their characters if they will be put together with other typical characters in this kind of genre. But the good thing about this book is that there are "balanced" dynamics between this set of characters and their typical personalities fitted with one another.

Another thing, although I am rooting for Beatrix and James's chemistry (and I ship them) but what happened between James and Beatrix went downhill for me. It's not really necessary, and I was like "Is this really part of the plot or just to add in the drama?". I just don't see the importance of some romantic scenes between them, like "is this scene really necessary just to add the love tension between these two?".

Since I am starting off with what I don't really like in this book, i'm also going to talk about this book having constant changing of perspective between the two main characters. Which I don't mind because you can tell what the other character feel or thinking, but it keeps happening and happening until it's become annoying. Like this narrator will focus on Beatrix's perspective first but after 2 or 3 paragraph it will change into James's perspective, then after 2-3 paragraphs it turns back to Beatrix. Ugh. I just don't vibe with that kind of narrating different point of views.

Another flaw: I am having a hard time picturing or imagining some scenes because this book has a weird narrating style, it is not clear to me what the narrator meant when describing what's really happening. And i'm like "Wait, what?" then I will read it again to understand the scene. There are also so many deep words here that I need to search its meaning to fully understand what the narrator meant, but clearly understandable because this book is also a historical fiction.

The thing I love about the narrating voice is that it's steady and firm. Despite being a book with multiple authors, it has a precise narrator. Like they are almost feel like the writing was in sync, it feels like written by a single author.

The good side of this book is it has a really good way to deliver the ghostly atmosphere, when the narrator described a door suddenly close I feel like "shocked" or "startled" like i'm watching a horror movie. I know it's weird to describe but you will know when you read it. Lol. It has really good horror vibes and kind of spooky atmosphere. But despite this book having a spooky and grim atmosphere, it doesn't lack from funny things also that happens between the characters.

I rated this 3.5 stars. Even though I have issues with this book it still enjoyable to read and it had the ending that I want though. But it just feels so average for me, I still recommend it though to those who loves a book that has a horror movie vibes.

3.75/5⭐️

A Victorian haunted house story dramatised with episode like chapters + depths to characters + demonic relics/possession + a hint of ancient history!

Beatrix comes out of a darkness surrounding her that she never knew existed; hence the book title. Its so much more than a ghost story. James is the most eligible man every 19th century woman deserves. The language used is exquisite, so much like the old English. I mean I haven’t seen/heard anyone use words like “treacle” anywhere!! Last few chapters felt like a drag, but I’m excited to see what the authors have planned next in this series.

Thank you Netgalley, Serial Box & authors for the ARC in-exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley and Serial Box publishing for an e-ARC of The Haunting of Beatrix Greene! I really liked this book. It was creepy, it was atmospheric and it was the perfect spooky season read. Beatrix is a spiritual medium who doesn't actually believe in ghosts... Until she gets to Ashbury Manor. James and the rest of the crew are just marvelous for this book. I loved the creepy atmosphere of the house, there's even a pit in the depths of the basement that holds probably my favorite scene... There's mystery, there's romance, there's ghosts and there is a shockingly pleasing amount of gore.

The Haunting of Beatrix Greene was everything I expected and then some. It was a fantastic story of the paranormal, horror, fantasy. It held my attention from beginning to end. I do love a good paranormal story and this was a good one.

Beatrix Greene is a medium who communicates with the dead. Or so she tells her clients. She is a fraud. That is, until she is offered a payment to spend the night at Ashbury Manner to use her skills. There, she learns that her skills have been unveiled and she is caught up in a haunted house that is filled with pure evil.

The Haunting of Beatrix Greene isn’t my typical genre to read. The story is written by three authors. That being said the writing was well done and the style different but enjoyable. There was more romance than expected for this type of story. Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for an advanced readers copy in exchange for my review.

The Haunting of Beatrix Greene went were many haunted house movies have gone before and unfortunately did little else. This book wasn’t necessarily bad it just felt really underdeveloped and at points could have been mistaken for fan fiction.

This book is written with multiple authors, changing each episode, and it ended up effecting the overall feeling of the book. While the story remained consistent there was still a noticeable voice change that kind of took you out of it. I really liked the characters in the book and wished I’d had more on each of them, when something bad would happen to one you were kind of left shrugging your shoulders because they weren’t developed enough for you to care. There was a romance I wasn’t expecting and again felt sort of weird and unnecessary, you can want to help a person without being attracted to them, and I think it would have been better had the love story been left out.

If you enjoy horror this is a quick enough read that it might be worth your time, I think teens and young adults would probably like it more, the romance isn’t too spicy and cuts off before we get into rated R territory. There is described violence but nothing you wouldn’t see in a typical 80’s slasher.

Thank you Netgalley for giving me an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

A haunted house story based on spiritualism and skepticism. This book was fine, it just had more of a romance element than I expected.

Beatrix Greene makes a living as a spiritual medium but admits that she is a fraud, that she tells people what they need to hear in order to give them peace. James Walker is a scientist who exposes the "deceit and trickery of spiritualists and mediums." James is also heir to the haunted Ashbury Manor manor, where his mother killed his brother and committed suicide. James asks Beatrix to come to the house and perform a seance in order to prove her spiritual powers.

When the ghost of James's mother immediately materializes through Beatrix's body, Beatrix realizes that she does indeed have the ability to connect with the dead, and the story of the haunted house begins. This was a good, scary read to start off October! I'm not a connoisseur of horror stories, but I thought the haunted house trope was well represented here. A true good vs. evil war happening at the end. Without giving away too much, though, I am a little confused about the "evil" that exists in the house and what its ultimate motivation is. What is doing the haunting? I can see how a house could be haunted by the unfortunate spirits that inhabit it and want revenge, but this house seems to have such a specific goal of making sure James inherits the family curse, while the ghosts of the victims seem to want to help him and Beatrix. Maybe I'm just thinking too much about this and should just enjoy the creepy story and atmosphere.

I felt there could've been more character development and reference to the outside world. Victorian England itself (outside of the haunted house itself) would make for some rich imagery. But this is a short book, so it's understandable that things were not explored as deeply. Overall, I enjoyed this book, which had a sweet ending, very much!