sarah984 's review for:

She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

3.5

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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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.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation

Moderate: Body horror, Racism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Blood, Gaslighting, War

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