3,5 stars rounded up. This author needs to lay if the thesaurus, too many unnecessarily complicated version of words. Fine use old timey ones, but pregnant has no reason what so ever to be substituted with gravid. Gravid is incidentally the Danish word for pregnant which was the only reason I didn’t have to look it up. The story was interesting and had many great plot points, I just felt like it all could have been smoother. It felt like there were certain story points that had been written first and not enough time had been spent on smoothing it all out and making it a more fluent narrative. Like at one point there are (mild spoilers) some
Ghosts telling stories, it just felt like something the author wanted in there, but was so out of context and felt like a filler.
But it had a nice general, spookyish, gothic vibe to it, I just wanted a bit more or possibly slightly less.