I love when I read a horror novel that is YA. Now I have more in my RA arsenal for teens who love horror. Is there sex? No. LGBTQ rep and also a deaf character? Yes! Is this book legitimately scary? YES! It was amazing, y'all.

You get body horror, ghosts, strange Lovecraftian elder god-monsters, all encompassing darknesses, people BEING FORGOTTEN (a big time psychological scare-point for me), mind-bending haunted houses with wraiths and spider-monsters, haunted woods, legends,

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posessions

. This book has it all! And NO animal deaths!! Only people deaths in the classic picked-off-one-by-one. This book is a mind-trip, especially towards the end. Almost made me think of House of Leaves. The group of ex-friends start out in a group of 9 knowing the "rules" of this haunted road and it just goes downhill from there as things aren't what they seem, rules can be bent, and the punishment for breaking rules is sometimes a fate worse than death, but almost always scary or gruesome.

Recommended for teens...I'd say an avid horror and book fan 14 but mostly 16 and older. There are parts that get confusing, and many reviews say it slows down after the middle of the book, but I didn't feel that.

Still, a great horror book I highly recommend!