samantha_randolph's reviews
1579 reviews

This falls into a lot of the traps the early 2010s dark/bully romances did with slut shaming, girls as competition, unrealistic teenage characters, etc. The writing tells more than shows, unnecessarily repeats dialogue, and it makes it difficult to really sink into the story. However, the angst is top notch.

Solid haunted house horror story but major content warning for bananas levels of fatphobia and a decent amount of ableism as well. Feels very much like a horror book from the 1980s

Things I liked:
-Age of heroine (29, which isn’t common in historical romance)
-The setting
-The banter/overall dialogue 
-Individual characters, particularly Val and the 3 older ladies
-Fantastic reluctant travel companions to find a missing women premise
-No epilogue ending!

Things I didn’t like:
-Used the word “creature” so many times
-Emphasis was heavily skewed on heroine needing to grow/change (which alone was fine, but there was no equivalent for the hero, and she was constantly teased about her personality)
-Plot was mostly fun, but went a bit too over the top for my taste at some points (especially with Martin)

Overall, enjoyable, particularly the audiobook version, but stumbled a few too many times for me to love it