Despite an intriguing and promising setup, I slowly came to realize during my time with this book that the author writes about sex, death, drugs, and medical science as if they are an eighteen-year-old high school student trying to finish a creative writing assignment the night before it’s due. Characters’ motivations are lost, picked up again, and then abandoned entirely. Nobody is likable enough or interesting enough to root for. My hopes for a creative and original haunted house story were dashed to the point at which I dreaded picking up my Kindle for the next chapter. Oops.