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Into Bones like Oil by Kaaron Warren
4.0

Oh, this is a creepy one. A novella, and it's as sad as it is quietly horrifying. After the death of her two young children, Dora takes a room at a boarding house... but it's not just any boarding house, as the ghosts from a nearby shipwreck attach themselves to the inhabitants while they sleep, with each part of this parasitic relationship looking for something and never quite finding it. It's such an easy read, too - not in subject matter, but the prose is very smooth. Not pretty, but smooth, and once it had hooked me in it was very hard to stop reading.

I think this may be the first of Warren's books that I've read. I'm going to have to find more, because it was great.