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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This has been my favorite Darcy Coates book so far. I really liked and the twist actually surprised, and they usually dont. I thought it was super cool.
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Brilliant! Excellent twist at the end that I didn't see coming.
3.5/5⭐️ rounded up for Goodreads! As always, this was enjoyable! Cozy yet creepy with a few unexpected twists!
This book was a haunted house story with a twist and overall it was really enjoyable.
adventurous
hopeful
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
I was really disappointed with this book. I believe that this was the third Darcy Coates I've read and definitely my least favorite. She has a very cozy feel to her writing that I enjoy reading when I'm in the mood but here it felt more like I was reading a middle-grade book with two unlikeable protagonists. While reading this I kept thinking "please don't go Shyamalan with the story, and she didn't but unfortunately, she went in an Andrews one which felt very tacky and didn't really work in my opinion.
Fun, quick read. Some of the short stories were really enjoyable.
So. I enjoyed the concept behind this one. The idea of the haunting was great, but I wish we'd seen more of the household ghosts throughout the story. I think making this a bit longer and including more detail, more mystery, would have been a good thing. I wanted more of the ghosts.
Tara annoyed me a little bit, while I quite liked Kyle's character. May and Peter were great characters, but I wanted more from the backstory and consequent events - nothing really scared me about this one. I was intrigued, and entertained enough to comfortably finish the short read, but the climax...wasn't climactic. At all. So while the haunting and threat itself were interesting and creative, and I quite liked the idea of them, the stakes felt muted and the climax just...scrambled around uncertainly, rather than confidently whacking you in the face. I wanted to be whacked in the face, like with Ashburn House, The Carrow Haunt and Craven Manor.
This one never really made me fear for the characters' wellbeing, because they never seemed to be in a terrible fix that didn't have a neat ending. And for Tara's eventual escape to have any meaning, we needed to have made more of a connection with, and seen more of, the Folcroft Ghosts themselves. Considering the title, they just weren't a big enough part of it. The climax needed a more detailed lead up, and then the big bang of danger needed to actually feel dangerous. So while I enjoyed this one, I was never really emotionally involved. It just didn't really do it for me. I think the author could have done so much more with this concept, because it was a really, really intriguing concept.
Tara annoyed me a little bit, while I quite liked Kyle's character. May and Peter were great characters, but I wanted more from the backstory and consequent events - nothing really scared me about this one. I was intrigued, and entertained enough to comfortably finish the short read, but the climax...wasn't climactic. At all. So while the haunting and threat itself were interesting and creative, and I quite liked the idea of them, the stakes felt muted and the climax just...scrambled around uncertainly, rather than confidently whacking you in the face. I wanted to be whacked in the face, like with Ashburn House, The Carrow Haunt and Craven Manor.
This one never really made me fear for the characters' wellbeing, because they never seemed to be in a terrible fix that didn't have a neat ending. And for Tara's eventual escape to have any meaning, we needed to have made more of a connection with, and seen more of, the Folcroft Ghosts themselves. Considering the title, they just weren't a big enough part of it. The climax needed a more detailed lead up, and then the big bang of danger needed to actually feel dangerous. So while I enjoyed this one, I was never really emotionally involved. It just didn't really do it for me. I think the author could have done so much more with this concept, because it was a really, really intriguing concept.