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"The dead are restless here..." Remy is a tour guide for Carrow House, a notoriously haunted building. When she's asked to host seven guests for a week-long stay to research Carrow's phenomena, she hopes to finally experience some of the sightings that made the house famous. At first, it's everything they hoped for. Then a storm moves in, cutting off their contact with the outside world, and things quickly become twisted. Doors open on their own. Seances go disastrously wrong. Red liquid seeps from behind the wallpaper. Their spirit medium wanders through the house during the night, seemingly in a trance. Then one of the guests dies under strange circumstances, and Remy is forced to consider the possibility that the ghost of the house's original owner, a twisted serial killer, still walks the halls. But by then it's too late to escape.
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Cover 4; characters 4; Plot 5; Pace 4; Intrigue 4; Logic 3; worldbuilding 5; Writing 5; Enjoyment 5
Darcy has done it again y'all! How are her haunted house horror books all so different? Where does she come up with this stuff? On one hand, I'd love to see inside her brain, on the other, I think I might be too scared.
When I read the synopsis for The Carrow Haunt I immediately thought of Stephen King's tv mini series 'Rose Red' and I knew I had to read it. It does bare a lot of similarities to Rose Red, group of strangers, trapped in a haunted house, things get weird, people die. A house with history. And those were the things about this book that I loved. LOVED. It was perfectly creepy and downright CHILLING at times. At the BEST of times. The second half of the novel is an absolute wild ride.
The 'Logic' is what kept this from being a 5 star for me. There were a couple of little things, mechanics if you will, that just didn't sit right with me. It's hard to explain without spoilers but there were a few things that happened that don't make sense for how they happened other than it needing to for the story to work, and that's not a good enough reason for me.
Overall though, that didn't detract from the absolute creep factor and I 100% will continue my way through the Darcy Coates backlist. This was my 5th book and I'm having the best time.
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