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The Haunting

Natasha Preston

3.41 AVERAGE


I usually love Natasha Preston books and I saw this one I was like oh this sounds interesting and then I got more into it and I was like this kinda gives off the scream movie franchise. Then I get more into it and I’m just like OK absolutely not. I just really can’t do this but I’ve never DNF a book before so I’m gonna do this, and then I’m like OK it’s getting better like this is getting a bit more toward the end and then that ending and then really no reasoning. Besides the fact that the killers really just wanted to kill this is absolutely disappointing.

However, the Arthur does have other books that are better, but this one is not it and I wouldn’t recommend this to my friends who, like thriller or horror books, and I for sure will not read this again. Or talk about it.

I honestly thought that she wrote this book in her younger years or beginning years of writing, but that’s not the case which makes this book even more disappointing it feels like it was very rushed.

If I could give it one and a half stars, I would. This is coming from someone who always gives at least four stars even on books that I really really don’t care, but this one I just I can’t..

Anyways… BANG.

If I could give it only a half star I would, the story itself was bland, the characters stereotypical, but the ending….the ending was atrocious. I’m all about cliff hangers but that was just a very unfinished anticlimactic ending. The last 5 chapters seemed just thrown together much like a high school assignment just to have something on a page.
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Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes

1.5 ⭐️

I couldn't finish the book. The title did not match the story.

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Loveable characters: No
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dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated