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She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

53 reviews

gondorgirl's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Racism, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

sammy_nor's review against another edition

3.25

i liked the book, but i also found the writing confusing at times. i hadn’t a clue what was going on half the time

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Vomit

Moderate: Slavery, Car accident, and Colonisation

Minor: Homophobia

heatherinthenether's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This is a delightfully unsettling thriller that explores family and love, societal expectations, culture and history, colonization and generational trauma. It's a powerful and truly haunting story that stays with you long after you finish the book. For anyone with a bug phobia, this is not the book for you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Body horror, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Blood, and Colonisation

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Vomit, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

adragoninspace's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Racism, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

belava's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Racism

Moderate: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Car accident, and Alcohol

wellreadandhalfdead's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Homophobia, Violence, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism and Car accident

emilunax's review against another edition

emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Colonisation

_teoeo's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Racism and colonialism as very important topics! But the writing was confusing (it felt like it jumped between actions and thought instead of flowing, yk?) and overall I would rate it as an "okay" read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Racism, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Car accident

carolined314's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

Food and love and ghosts and control all intertwine in this book, which I found almost revolting and yet fascinating. The main character's queer journey kept me grounded even as the situation got worse and worse and then... wow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, and Colonisation

Moderate: Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Cannibalism, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Dysphoria, and Classism

Minor: Addiction

evelynyle_88's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

What a journey following Jade Nguyen and her imperfect family. There were so many things going on, She Is A Haunting really gave me creepy gory horror disturbing type of book. But, although this is quite disturbing, the whole story was perfect.

How she engaged with every ghosts and facts about the house, her relationship with Florence Ngo, Lily and her estranged father... it all captured in a perfect way. This book gave me chills from the very first chapter until the end.

The feels of it, the way Trang Thanh Tran described every situation in the house in detailed way... I love it! What an amazing debut, Trang! I love every second of it when I deep dive to Jade's story. Wish I could see the bonus chapter though! But, all okay. I love this book as a whole. My best read this month!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Racism, and Colonisation

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Suicide, Vomit, and Car accident