But she’s cackling like an absolute candyflipping witch, rolling around in the grass, so we know she’s still breathing.

While this book warns you away from mainlining Ghost, because of, you know, ghosts, what you will get hooked on here is Clay McLeod Chapman’s writing. I just know that if I force myself to finish it I’ll probably put myself in a reading slump, and I have too much I’m excited to read for that. Synopsis* Erin hasn’t been able to set a single boundary with her charismatic but reckless college ex-boyfriend, Silas.Next we have the "I need to find Silas even though he's a mega POS who used me like a crack pipe" storyline.

Then, unfortunately, and once again, McLeod Chapman eased off the gas pedal a bit and it started to drag on at around the 75% mark. Which ended up being a good decision, because holy CATS, the ghosts in this book are SO disturbing and scary.Late in the night, he's awoken by heavy footsteps on the stair, as the narrator's door begins to open. One of Vulture’s Best Horror Novels of 2022, this terrifying supernatural page-turner will make you think twice about opening doors to the unknown.

As I was reading this book I kept thinking of “Ghostland” by Colin Dickey, which has this as a running theme, and LO AND BEHOLD this book was mentioned in the acknowledgements. I struggled to connect with the characters and their relationships, which were such a key part of the story. If you do, the next melee Strike you make this turn requires you to succeed at only a DC 6 flat check to affect the creature. I’d recommend this to anyone that wants a unique read about being haunted that is taken to a whole different level. Whenever that was written it just scratched an itch in my brain idk 😂 There were also a few disorienting sequences where the MC was on a bad trip which were pretty cool to read.So I looked at the Ghost Eater archetype which seems interesting but one issue with it is that there are quite limited opponents to use it against. So from the get-go here I am pretty invested in these characters, and then their journey gets so wild.