I highly enjoyed this ghoulish book and I especially love our MC hero, Olivia.

Olivia has lived in a girl's school and she doesn't speak. One day, she receives a letter from an uncle she doesn't know asking her to come to his home Gallant, a place she has never been.

The house was creepy and it was a "living thing" crawling with ghouls. There is someone who wants her there and someone who tries to warn her to leave. I like that Olivia can communicate with these ghouls in her mind. The ghouls themselves were a nightmare to me (they had only pieces of them floating around and I could just see them through the descriptions).

I love the words of Olivia's mother's journal entries and how they help Olivia and Gallant at the end. There are drawings inside and they tell a bit of the story if you look close enough.