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If I Stopped Haunting You by Colby Wilkens
3.0
lighthearted mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Thank you St. Martin's Griffin and NetGalley for the eARC of If I Stopped Haunting You!  All opinions in this review are my own.

My favorite part of this book was the setting.  I love a bunch of writers get snowed in a haunted castle in Scotland to write their next thriller or horror novels!  It reminded me a lot of the conditions that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in!

I enjoyed the haunted house/ghost story aspect of this book, but I wasn't a huge fan of the romance because of the characters.  Pen is too immature and Neil is too arrogant.  I feel like the characters never really evolved beyond the caricatures that they were in the beginning of the book.

Overall, a really fun read, but the romance characters needed more work.