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She Can't See Me by Lindsay Redifer

octavia_cade's review

dark fast-paced

2.0

This has a genuinely interesting premise: a ghost develops a romantic obsession with the new inhabitant of their house, and it's all told in a very dreamy, romantic tone... except it's told from the point of view of the ghost, so this dreamy romance is grossly unreliable. There's a lengthy central sex scene, for instance, told as if it's a scene between two lovers. In reality, the other party is asleep and incapable of meaningful consent, so it's more assault than assignation, although Linda clearly thinks she's just had a wet dream. The ghost's later destruction of various articles is more typically horrific, but I'm not sure that, in Linda's place, I would ultimately be so forgiving. The tone doesn't quite match the contents, I think - though I'm not sure if I would like the story more or less if that ambiguity, that central unreliability, was played up even more than it is. 

More, I think. It would probably be creepier.