I received this eBook from the author in exchange for an honest review.
Cross posted to Shh, I Am Reading

Personally, I wouldn’t have labelled this story a horror. Paranormal with mystery maybe, but this didn’t have any horror elements and there were no major scares in this.

While this has a classic paranormal story tale air about it with the mystery of a haunted house, it kind of fell flat for me. More so because of the characters rather than the story itself. Dale was tedious and displays misogynistic qualities, especially in his belief and treatment of Lucy. While Lucy was an air head with the ability to be a cruel Mean Girl. She almost seemed like she didn’t want to even be a part of the project.
The end of the story was even more odd with Lucy and Dale suddenly being a couple and engaged. There was so little romance especially from Lucy. It seemed odd that even their experience at Sker House would have drawn them together.
The only character’s I liked were Old Rolly and Izzy the barmaid. At least their personalities suited each other.

Like I said, this seems to be more of a paranormal novel. It had elements of possible creepiness and the landlord of Sker House was perfect in his drunken stupor and false happiness, despite his life having fallen apart since moving to Sker House. Hints of the occult littered the book, another common paranormal element.

For the longest time, Old Rolly’s presence in the book made no sense but near the end, it finally did. It was a little cliche as to the presence. But I feel if Dale and Lucy had smaller parts in the book or more effort put into the ghost story line, it would have been a stronger novel.