Mine by Delilah S. Dawson is a middle grade horror novel. One I think is much needed in the middle grade genre. In this we follow Lily a young girl who moves from Colorado to Florida with her family for a fresh start. Lily loves being dramatic and has a passion for musicals and theatre. The house they arrive to is not what she expected it’s haunted. Things in her room start to move, the words mine, get written on items. Lily now has to face these horrors all the while her parents do not believe her.

I enjoyed this quite a bit. The first 70% was amazing. After that though it started to fall flat, I gave up caring about Lily and her journey. There were so many times that I was generally spooked and I believe that if I was the target audience I would have been very scared.

What I did not enjoy was how long it took to get to the climax and the ending let me down. Lily’s Dad, in my opinion, was unnecessarily verbally abusive to her and was always angry at her. What was the point of that?

It was still a very good read.
3.75 stars.