ARC Review – This is Not a Ghost Story

Title: This is Not a Ghost Story
Author: Andrea Portes
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Read: December 2-4, 2020
Book Read in 2020: 133
Format: eARC
Page Count: 288
Release Date: November 17, 2020
Genre: YA Horror
Publisher: Harper Teen

Synopsis: I am not welcome. Somehow I know that. Something doesn’t want me here.

Whatever this is, it is saying to me in a voice that cannot be heard but only felt: Get out.

Daffodil Franklin has plans for a quiet summer before her freshman year at college, and luckily, she’s found the job that can give her just that: housesitting a mansion for a wealthy couple.

But as the summer progresses and shadows lengthen, Daffodil comes to realize the house is more than it appears. The spacious home seems to close in on her, and as she takes the long road into town, she feels eyes on her the entire way, and something tugging her back.

What Daffodil doesn’t yet realize is that her job comes with a steep price. The house has a long-ago grudge it needs to settle… and Daffodil is the key to settling it.

Review: This was a fast and addictive read. The ending didn’t quite live up to the spooky/weird factor that happened in the first half of the book, but I’m still glad I read it.

This was told in a mostly inner monologue type first person POV, in an almost stream of consciousness manner. It was often funny and had me laughing.

The biggest negative for me is the amount of things that are left unexplained because of the direction the ending took. I can’t specify what I mean without revealing massive spoilers, but that was what left me feeling disappointed.

*Disclaimer* I received an eARC from Harper Collins on Edelweiss. An honest review was provided.