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A review by sarah984
She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
challenging
dark
emotional
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
This is a pretty solid YA haunted house story. There are some really effective scares in here and I loved the Vietnamese setting, but sometimes feelings and character motivations got a bit lost in the flowery writing and the romance didn't really work for me.
Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicide
Moderate: Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Abandonment, Body horror, Grief, Car accident, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Cursing, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Slavery, War, Blood, Confinement, and Animal death
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