Dripping with atmosphere. A compelling premise that just gets more interesting as the haunting is unravelled. There’s really cool setting elements and worldbuilding and it’s just _fun_ to read. It’s got great flow and is quite short, but just long enough to feel complex and not perfunctory, which is too often what mysteries end up feeling like with novellas. Great characters, inclusive, respectful (as far as I can tell) of a foreign culture. It’s written playfully and cinematically, and sure, it’s not intricate, but I do think it’s unique and does things with reader assumptions very well.

I will read the novel that came out last month that is a sequel to this for sure.