I went into this one assuming it was going to be more haunted house horror, but that wasn’t the case.

We have our protagonist, Ellis, having just moved to a new house, in a new town with their mother, who grew up there. They are just trying to lay low, but are immediately informed they are living in a (hand to god) haunted house…

We also get quite a bit of backstory into the house itself, which I loved. I enjoyed the depiction of Ellis’s eating disorder and their subsequent recovery journey. It’s not something that is just glossed over, but a recurring topic in the book.

I enjoyed the story and the characters, but this didn’t strike me as horror. More like a ya supernatural mystery. Either way, I was entranced by the house and what happens in it, how it shapes the town of Black Stone and the people in it.

There is also a really great queer presence to this whole book that I absolutely LOVED!!!