It was a really scary story, although it had a really long way to go before it got scary. You have to read a little more than half of the book before anything really happens. Sure, there are some tidbits here and there, like the woman with the book, the bus driver, and the ghost stories, but there is a lot of build up, which I felt could have been removed or shortened with maybe 50 pages. The actual scary parts went by way too fast.

Even though I felt it was a little slow in the beginning, I actually found it to be a very intriguing and exciting story with characters I liked and were not a cliché but actually much more rounded, as well as some jump scares and a lot of questions about how they would solve everything and how it was connected.

although the part about her mother could have been cut down the most. I did not really understand how her mother could have helped her in there. I mean, was she a ghost and trapped there as well? Otherwise a lot of other ghosts could have been there also maybe.

I think that if you don't care about that the scary parts are a bit far into the book, you will get a nice tween horror story. The scarecrows were really scary. But yeah, 100 pages before the action starts. If that is fine, then go for it and read this book. It is kind of worth it.