One of my most hyped books of 2025, but sadly… it didn’t work out.

😍 The ghost(s) were great and quite spooky as well. Not only affecting weather but also our MC’s home and technology and more.
😍 A good countdown. I always love a horror with a countdown.
😍 The cemetery was a spooky place (but also sad).
😍 I loved getting a bit more history on thing and the place they live in.
😍 The epilogue was fab and I was so happy with what they were planning.

😒 But the kids I didn’t like (lying to their parents, holding a sleepover when the parents think that the kids are somewhere else), making dumb decisions, and more.
😒 Instead of searching all over they just stuck to one or two things and just focussed fully on that which is just dumb and made me question a lot of things. Like for instance they hear a song (or Jackson does) and they immediately think that 2 people = married. Whut??? I mean if this was me I would have gone to the library and searched for old documents (not sure if we have such an extensive collection like what the US libraries always seem to do) or go to a historical society or other things.
😒 Some weird things that didn’t make sense like our MC saying she almost wanted to call her uncle to get away from the house while she knows the ghost is STUCK TO HER and her friends.
😒 I didn’t understand why she was reacting to the sayings her friends made, those are just normal sayings (and no I am not an old grandma, I am still young).
😒 How someone 12 years old didn’t think for herself that love is love but remembers it as something that her parents have said many times, with how many books there are out now with LGBT+ kids this stood out.
😒 These kids ORDERED Ubers like water, not to mention how did these drivers even accept the kids? They are 12, if I was an uber driver I would definitely first want to see an adult before allowing them in the car.
😒 Also, I found it hilarious that Alisson was all teary-eyed because she checked the countdown that Josie kept from her, do these kids not know to count anymore? You have until midnight at a certain date, you can count right? I was just laughing at this point.
😒 Janessa was a good character, but I did think it was a bit weird she would just storm into someone’s home. Especially in a home with three kids.
😒 And sorry, but I did laugh a bit at the one girl who was a horror fanatic and probably never wants to watch horror again.
😒 Because they were being so dumb with their research I just couldn’t enjoy it that much because I just love researching and puzzling along with the characters in these kind of books, but in this book it was just focussed on one thing that there were zero moments that things clicked together, instead I was just getting frustrated and annoyed.

Such a shame. Lindsay Currie is normally THE person to go to for spooky MG horror and this is her very first book (been reading her books since The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street) that I didn’t like at all. I hope her next spooky book is better!