This was a really good horror book. I did find it predictable, as I’ve seen this plot before, but that doesn’t mean that it still gave me the chills. I have to say, I was kind of freaked out. The hares really creeped me out – that thing gets me. 

I also have a love/hate relationship with the “impossible stakes” trope, where there’s this issue or villain or something bad, and it feels impossible to get out of that situation, where you don’t know how they’re getting out of it. And I hate that trope, in the way that it makes me feel hopeless, but it’s also really good because it makes the stakes so much higher and when the mc gets out, it feels so good. And this did this trope well, although short. 

I haven’t read The Fall of the House of Usher, but I think this is a good retelling 

Rep: Genderqueer MC, Disability Rep (MC has a bad ear that acts up where ka can’t hear from it)