A review by thatdecembergirl
I Call Upon Thee by Ania Ahlborn

3.0

WARNING: please don't read this book if you are expecting a happy ending.

I read three works of Ania Ahlborn so far and two of them feature children as a big contribution to the creepy points. I guess kids are fairly easy to use because we don't really have accurate recollections of what we felt and our way of thinking back when we were five (or under), and so, as an adult, we aren't quite sure what and how to predict what kids are thinking.

Ouija is also very not in my culture as a board game, that's why I have no idea if people actually sell (and buy) it as a board game. Because boy, the game has been used very frequently in ghost stories, so why are people still playing (or worse, buying) it?

The characters in this book are not likable. Yeah yeah I get that broken home trope, but if you do have a parent who sucks, I guess don't hate or abandon your sister as well? Bond, for fuck's sake. Oh well, maybe they're just not supposed to be likable. Maybe they deserve this. But I'm not gonna lie. If you have a miserable life, I somehow kinda get it if you want to blame everything on somebody else. Maybe even something else.