A review by kirby2002
The Haunting of Ashburn House by Darcy Coates

1.5

I've read two other Darcy Coates books, and I enjoyed them. Although I did not like this one, I will chalk it up to it being one of her earlier works. I did not like the characters. Adriene is 22 years old and has no family. I know she is young, but I found her very childish. She meets a few women from town for about an hour and keeps referring to them as her friends, like she's known them her whole life. It was just weird, and I found it annoying after a while. I did not like the story. It was cheesy, silly, and totally cliché. After the big twist, I yelled to myself, "REALLY?" I did not like her writing. Wolfgang was said WAY too much to the point where I wanted to throw my phone across the room. I also felt a lot of stuff was repetitive.
The book's name is The Haunting of Ashburn House, which infers that it is about ghosts. There are ghosts, but they aren't doing the haunting. The haunting is done by an evil undead aunt who somehow was born with an ancient magic that allowed her to steal the life force of people she killed.
A lot of my complaints are all me. I wasn't enjoying this, and instead of DNF'ing it, I continued to listen. So, after a while, every little thing started grinding my gears. 

Side note: I did not find this scary. Again, this might just be me. Maybe I have watched too many horror movies for novels to scare me. I am determined to find at least one this spooky season. 

Stars: 1.5⭐️
Spice: 0
Eyeroll: 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 
Genre: Horror
Series: No 
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Eva Kaminsky 
Narrator Rating: 3.5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cliffhanger: No