A review by shmadsie
The Haunting by Natasha Preston

2.0

*spoilers* What a weird spot to end a book? All climax, no closure. I feel like the author is essentially saying: you don't care about these characters (or they don't), so here's the whodunit! But, uh, if you don't expect us to care about the characters, why write the book? I was so thrown, I cannot even begin to tell you. You don't even know the fates of half the remaining characters?? There were other issues: like Jensen (sp? I got the audiobook from the library so not sure how it was spelled) being a completely ineffectual red herring. Our narrator never actually met him, so he never really cemented himself as a possibility because to be the killer you'd have to be in the mix a bit more, then to stumble on his death scene it was like... what was the point of any of that then? He literally just took up space as filler because he never meant anything to the story. It all felt very slapdash. I gave it two stars because at least it was readable and I try to save one stars for either reminding myself not to buy the sequel of something because it really isn't redeemable if that's the starting point or for just egregiously poorly written books.