🐝 Creepy and Ominous 
🖤 Manipulation 
🐝 My Skin was Crawling 
🖤 A Haunting 
🐝 Witchy Folk Horror

This was definitely an eerie and very immersive read. It is rich with folk horror, it has amazing scene setting, and the overall premise is gripping. 

Mina is a new child psychologist who meets Sam at a grief group counselling session. Sam is an investigative journalist and approaches Mina to help him with a case concerning a teenage girl who is being haunted. 

This novel really speaks to how easily people can be influenced or manipulated to the extent that they no longer trust their own perceptions of reality. While I did find the plot slightly predictable (I managed to guess the direction fairly early on), the development is also terrifying. I actually had to read most of this during the light of day because the haunting and horror elements were done so well that it made my skin crawl. I experienced a constant looming feeling of dread while reading. All of the characters have secrets, so their interactions with one another and their impact on the development of the story are riddled with ominosity. 

We are left with some unanswered questions. Some of the plot elements definitely feel a little far-fetched, and I really would've liked just a little bit more closure between our main characters, but I think the story was well written with a satisfying conclusion overall. It was interesting to me how the guilt and anxiety that our protagonist felt influenced her external reaction to the "haunting." 

This was a really good, fast-paced, and vastly uncomfortable read. 

𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓴 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓽𝓸 𝓝𝓮𝓽𝓰𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓢𝓽. 𝓜𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓲𝓷'𝓼 𝓟𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓪𝓷 𝓐𝓡𝓒 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓫𝓸𝓸𝓴 𝓲𝓷 𝓮𝔁𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓶𝔂 𝓱𝓸𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓻𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀