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The Madness by Dawn Kurtagich
4.25
dark fast-paced

My only real complaint is the editing of the ebook... Sometimes there was no break in between parts of the story/different scenes. 

This is a Dracula, Gothic, and  Welsh inspired book with missing girls, strange symptoms mainly a black rash, and a call back for Mina to her home in Wales. She gets a cryptic email from her estranged friend. She runs into an ex who was broken hearted when she fled.

As never having read Dracula, I did enjoy the creepiness of the story. It was hard to trust anyone besides Mina. The trauma that made her flee comes full circle in a great way and the ending is ambiguous enough to either end or have a second book to supplement it.