I’m enjoying the turn that the gothic novel has taken in what constitutes the horrible and horrifying (namely race to racism) because it’s a narrative medium that is so right for talking about what is horrible without necessarily being horror as such. 
I found our viewpoint character’s voice to be interesting albeit…frustrating sometimes, in the way she spoke to herself but first person narration is always such a tricky one to pull off so I get it. Having said that, the pull-no-punches approach to describing stuff that goes on in women’s bodies was very much appreciated and felt like an exactly right use of first person. 
What can I say, I like a creepy house and threatening dude and a mystery. (Am mildly confused by the description “strikingly original” on the cover of a gothic novel about race, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ).