This book was highly anticipated for me, and I really wanted to love it. Sadly, it just wasn’t for me. I didn’t mind that the first half was a really slow build. I thought the author was very descriptive and transported the reader to High Place. The setting was very creepy, but sadly the story wasn’t.

The dreams that Noemi, our protagonist had did not scare me, and at times, were just really confusing. Noemi goes to High Place to help her cousin, Catalina, yet their interactions are so few it made me wonder why Noemi even stayed in that awful place.

The last half of the book does pick up the pace, and the last 50 pages moved really quickly. There is a twist revealing the secret that the occupants of High Place have been keeping, but that just fell flat for me. I found it kind of ridiculous rather than scary or shocking.

Overall, I think the author’s writing was beautiful and descriptive, but I did not love the storyline. My biggest pet peeve was that this book was listed as horror genre, but I didn’t find it scary at all. I really wanted to be scared so that was very disappointing to me.