On one hand I did like the discussions had in this book about abuse and trauma at the hand of a parent, and the fact that

it wasn't ever clear what the haunting was, or even if it was a haunting.

On the other hand, the book was too blunt with how it went about the topic, the characters, while good enough to carry the book were nothing to write home about, and the villain was a bit too over the top. Maybe it was because the POV character knew all the tricks the villain had up their sleeve, but it got grating after a while. There was little nuance in how the topic was handled.

The prose was my least favorite part of the book. It started out weak, though it did get better as it went on. Sort of. We got "[character] wrapped [their] arms around themselves" an upward of fifty times and by the fifth I was exhausted. 

The author is good at creating tension, but at points it felt like that tension just went nowhere. The chapter would end on something scary starting to happen, and the very next page we would be in a different location completely removed from the situation.

All in all, a fine book for a quick read, a plot that is executed fine. This book overall is just. Fine.