<b>Read Completed 9/16/24 |</b> 3.5 stars, rounded down
<I>Thank you to Netgalley and Dreamscape Audio for the audiobook review copy. This did not affect my review in any way.</I>
I've been craving some horror stories recently and this was a good, solid read! I knew I recognized Mina Hardy's name and I actually didn't like her previous book, which was a thriller. This went much better for me in a fast-paced, disturbing horror novel. This dealt with possession and a demon, which isn't something I read a lot of, and I really liked how the author wrote this story. It's the story of the relationship between a mother and her daughter, the daughter now grown and having to care for her abusive mother after she gets kicked out of her retirement home when weird things begin to happen.

I really appreciated how layered this became in the end and all of the things that came to light. There's some truly creepy and disturbing things that happen here that gave me some serious chills, and I liked that there was a constant back and forth between is it or isn't it supernatural. Is her mother just this abusive, or is there something worse at play? Was her house haunted, or was it just her mother? 

I'm glad I read this! A "level amount" of creepy for me, since I much prefer a lighter horror that's a little more grounded in reality with one supernatural concept poking through. This fit.