This book ended up in my queue due to horror recs from my new library system. I’m about to cut ties with my new library system. This book was so all-over-the-place and so wordy. SO many words! Unnecessary ones. It was written in such an elementary, this-is-what-happened level. I don’t usually notice shit like what tense a book is written in, but I think it was the first-person past-tense that bothered the shit out of me. Turns out it’s “based on a Reddit sensation”? WTF does that mean?

A couple moves to a haunted ranch, basically. And there are strict ‘rules’ to dealing with the ranch’s spirit’s different hauntings… except when the rules change. And they are the most random-ass hauntings and rules… is that what Reddit contributed? Like, hey, here’s a random prompt, now do something with it??? I wasted enough time reading this thing, I don’t really want to do the work to figure out where it came from.

The worst part is that I think the book really wanted to say something about a veteran haunted by war, but it was done in such a ham-fisted way it made me angry.

I liked the characters, or at least the concept of them cuz honestly there’s nothing of substance here — they deserved so much better.