i have a new obsession and it's called southern gothic.

atmospheric? check
eerie? check
moody? check
incredible? check

i highly recommend the audiobook. the narrator has the most delicious southern drawl and i could listen to her saying "says" all day long.

i do wish the secondary characters got more time in the limelight. this book is very protagonist-centred, and, although she is lovely, the other characters are also lovely and i wanted to see more of them. i feel like the author only scratched the surface of who they are. only one of the LI (yes, there's a love triangle; no, i didn't like it) really gets the chance to shine.

(at one point the narrator thinks "am i really worried about my love life when a ghost is trying to kill me?" and would you look at that, i was thinking exactly same thing.)