Disclaimer: I bought this book cause I like this series! Support your authors! All opinions are my own. 

 

Book: Cursed Cruise 

 

Author: Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren 

 

Book Series: Horror Hotel Book 2 

 

Rating: 5/5 

 

Diversity: Half Filipino MMC, Sapphic Aro FMC, F/F Romance, Queer characters 

 

Recommended For...: Young Adult readers, Horror, Mystery, Paranormal, Ghosts, Mystery Thriller 

 

Publication Date: March 19, 2024 

 

Genre: Young Adult Horror 

 

Age Relevance: 15+ (death, romance, affair, homophobia, religion, suicide, alcoholism, violence, ghosts, gore, possession) 

 

Explanation of CWs: There is death and ghosts mentioned and shown in this book, along with possession scenes. There are scenes involving and depicting violence, blood gore, and body gore. Homophobia is mentioned. There are some Christian religious aspects mentioned. Suicide is mentioned. Alcoholism is mentioned. There is romance and an affair is mentioned. 

 

If This Was a Taylor Swift Song: Haunted 

 

Publisher: Underlined 

 

Pages: 288 

 

Synopsis: All aboard... After their fateful stay at the Hearst Hotel, the Ghost Gang is back with more spooks and more subscribers. They’ve been invited to record onboard the RMS Queen Anne, a transatlantic luxury ocean liner with a colorful past of violent deaths of hundreds of passengers—souls that bought a one-way ticket to the afterlife (and never disembarked). When Chrissy, Chase, Kiki, and Emma board the ship, they have a funny feeling they’ve been sucked into a ghostly time warp—a theory that takes a frightening turn when Chrissy goes missing on the first night. Unbeknownst to the rest of the group, Chrissy has been sucked into another time by a passenger who wants the Ghost Gang to know her untimely death was not an accident and the perpetrator is still alive—and on board this ship. 

 

Review: I love this little series so much! I loved seeing the Ghost Gang back in action and on a cruise ship this time. The intro helped me remember where we left off. The book had great character development and good world building. I was hooked from start to finish and I loved that the story was told in multi-POV fashion.
 
 The only things that irked me was a bit of pacing issues here and there and that there was a random "no Taylor Swift fans" line? What's that about? 

 

Verdict: I want more now!