There's a lot of tension and drama between the characters that works well within the larger supernatural storyline. I got into the book quickly and enjoyed it more as it went along. I also liked the ominous backdrop of the solar storms and the mystery surrounding them. I love it when characters are flawed but likable, especially when they evolve. It's a dark, sometimes darkly comic, book with frightening subject matter, but it's also a very personal coming-of age tale.

The Ghost Hunter's Daughter is a dark book with an fast-paced plot and well developed characters. The book also tackles several heavy topics, self injury, suicide, bullying, hoarding and child sexual abuse, but most of it is pretty mild. Anna might be a bit self-absorbed at times, so there's some things she don't pick up in regards of her friends, which was a bit frustrating.

Nontheless, it was a fun book to read.

The Ghost Hunter’s Daughter by Caroline Flarity is a young adult horror / paranormal fantasy. While this one is young adult with a sixteen year old main character the content is on the mature side with trigger warnings for suicide (while possessed), suicide ideation, bullying, mental illness (hoarding), self-harm, animal cruelty, predatory and abusive adults in positions of power.

Described as a mix of Supernatural and Mean Girls I couldn’t help but be curious and I suppose I could see that description. Anna is an outsider and social misfit in her town and known as the Goblin Girl due to her ability to see the supernatural and working alongside her father as he makes a living cleaning haunted objects. As a rare solar storm passes over Anna’s town bad things begin to happen to those around her forcing her to find a way to save the whole town.

I have to admit I totally missed the trigger warnings on this one myself and was thinking along the lines of a more cutesy teen drama with some ghosts and stuff but it really was a lot darker than expected. Typical horror type of wrongness begins to happen to the town to show that the evil has moved in and yes, it’s disturbing and creepy but I think that ended up catching my attention more being a horror fan. When all said and done I thought it was a solid read worth 3 1/2 stars for mature audiences.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.

This book was much better than expected, I thought it may be a little silly in places but it was pretty dark and creepy. I always enjoy a good ghost book too. Will definitely keep an eye out for more books by Caroline Flarity

3 for neutral. Was never able to get into this book and enjoy it enough to finish. I am a very moody reader, so it could be my mood and if so I’ll update when able to finish.

Anna at a age loses her mom to a demon depression. Her father takes her along on his jobs of clearing objects that were possessed. Her father was a plumber by trade but stopping the plumber work. This made Anna a social outcast. She ended up with only two friends. When her father starts acting strange, she doesn’t notice right away as she navigates the narrow alleyways due to the hoarding he has done ever since her mom died. When she notices how her friends are acting weird with others having murderous thoughts, including hsel she know something is wrong with the town. Will she be able to figure out what has happened? Will she be ale to stop it? Will her friendships survive?

The novel is well written. It is a paranormal story including teenager angst, friendships, and mental health issues. This is not a typical ghost story as I expected. It turned out to be a mystery with a demon in it. I wanted to know what was causing the people to act so strangely.

I couldn't put this book down. I loved the author's take on the supernatural/paranormal realm. The heroine of the story was, in my opinion, a very strong, intelligent, brave character whose resilience was truly amazing. I try not to include spoilers in my reviews so I won't discuss what actually happened in the book, but the writing style of the author was enjoyable. I read this book in about 2 days and I'm a full-time mom, a full-time college student, and a full-time worker. Every spare second I had I was reading this book. Very well done. I will be watching this author. I would love to read any other works of hers.

I really did try to get into this one, because the premise sounds amazing. However, I found myself struggling to keep up with which character was which, and just the general weirdness that starts out of nowhere.

Paranormal kick-ass.

This book is amazing. I love the Paranormal and this books is perfect, it captures the imagination and your emotions. expect a up and down roller coaster of emotions.
when i requested this book on Netgalley i thought it would be good but its brilliant and i hope hope hope that we will be seeing Anna again soon. i love a character that is ready to kick ass even when she's struggling internally.
i am going to follow this author and subscribe to her, she had a knack for pulling you into the world without much effort. its a thrilling ride that i will definitely be repeating, and read again.
A big thank you to Netgalley/author and publisher.

I’m so sorry, but I just couldn’t get into this. I was really intrigued by the premise but can’t get into the writing. The third person narration doesn’t help hook me. First person would really help get into the head of Anna and her world, as well as to give us a better sense of her voice. I’m really intrigued by how her father’s job changes people’s perception of her but wish we could be shown that instead of told it. Even though lots of things that are interesting are happening (the eviction notice, the unusual ghost hunting job of her dad, Anna being teased for her dad's job as well as encountering spirits), I can't quite feel the stakes or investment for myself. I'm sure other readers will feel differently.

I usually don't read horror books but this book synopsis was interesting. I wanted to give a chance and i liked reading it. It was fast paced and a little bit creepy. Perfect for this season. 3.5/5

I received this book from Netgally for review. I have to say I really rather enjoyed this book. Even for being a YA, I found it to have a weird, eerie, dread inspiring vibe. It is refreshing to read a book that does not rely on gore and extravagant kill scenes to be scary. I think they did an excellent job with the paranormal/supernatural aspects. This is a book I would recommend, I would buy for myself and family. Definitely worth a read.

Anna's not-so-friendly nickname of Goblin Girl, stings. However, as her town falls into deeper and darker madness, her skills learned from her ghost hunter father become crucial to saving everyone. Filled with interesting characters, this is a gripping tale of paranormal mystery.

I feel like I’m not a huge reader of YA but when I look back at titles I’ve read I actually am. Perhaps it’s because many of the YA Titles I read don’t feel like YA. This book is the perfect example. It’s a great, quirky ride that also deals with some coming of age subject matter. I got hooked and couldn’t put it down.

The Ghost Hunter’s Daughter by Caroline Flarity

East Side Press, 2019

ISBN-13: 978-0996845007

Available: Paperback, Kindle edition



Anna Fagan lives in a haunted house, but that’s the least of her problems. Her father, Jack, is well-known for his ability to “clear” spirits from the objects they haunt, but since the traumatic death of her mother, his ability is fading and he’s picked up the habit of hoarding, aggressively. He stores holy water in the refrigerator, and “cleared” objects in the basement, where Anna is forbidden to go (the results of Jacks’s hoarding exposed when Anna breaks into the basement later in the story is one of the most appalling things in the book: previously haunted objects are the least of the problems). Now the lack of space has led Jack to rent an office to reinvigorate his business. He has hired a new investigator, Geneva Sanders, a scientist who has invented a new way to see the electrical activity that indicates that ghosts and supernatural forces are at work.

Anna is also suffering from grief and guilt over her mother’s death, but at school, she has other problems. With the exception of her friends Doreen and Freddy, Anna is mocked by other students with the nickname “Goblin Girl”. Izzy, the school sleazebucket, has decided she’d make a perfect target for his meanness and slut-shaming, while also throwing disgusting homophobic slurs at Freddy. Anna, focused on getting her crush, Craig, to notice her, while trying to manage her family problems and an uptick in paranormal activity, misses out on the serious problems Doreen and Freddy are dealing with. As levels of hostility and violence rise in town, Geneva theorizes that unusual solar flares are being harnessed by a malevolent spirit who is using them to feed on people’s anger and pain.

Flarity’s choice to make Anna the point-of-view character works beautifully here. There is so much going on in this book, especially in the larger picture of things, and yet we see that world through the self-centered tunnel vision of a teenager– which is perfect for a teenager in a YA novel. Our view widens with hers, and we see the story pull together as she does. Getting the story from Anna’s point of view means we are up close to her character growth.

This book reminds me a lot of Lois Duncan’s YA books, except that her books didn’t have the broader supernatural conspiracy behind this story. I’m not sure how many boys would choose to read this, but I hope they will, because there are parts that should really make them think. How many people say and do things without thinking, especially when they are angry or feeling hopeless, that regret it later?

Recommended.



Contains: suicide, suicidal ideation, mental illness (hoarding), self-harm, animal cruelty, bullying, abusive adults, violence, cyberbullying. rape culture, distribution of provocative images of a minor.

3,5 stars rounded up to 4! The Ghost Hunter’s Daughter is not what one expects when picking up a Young Adult fantasy book. Don’t be fooled by the fact that the main character is a teen, because you’ll find many dark themes in this story. Please be aware of several trigger warnings, such as self-mutilation, suicide, heavy bullying and child sexual abuse. Personally, I don’t mind reading about those things because what I normally read is quite gruesome, but I thought you should know, just in case.

While I think this book needs some editing, I really enjoyed the story and everything that’s underlying the main plot. I loved how the main character evolves, the way she learns and grows up, as she lives her difficult life in a small cursed town.

There are many far-fetched things, but I don’t feel like everything is supposed to add up in this story. Even while battling a demon, or a dark entity or a Trickster, the most important thing is still what happens inside the characters, their love towards their friends and family, and the mind-and-body connection they manage to maintain in the midst of everything falling apart.

This is a dark, but very sweet book, and I’m glad I picked it up.

I'm not much of a horror reader because I don't like gore, but I've been branching out lately. I figured a YA horror would be a little more "safe" for me, and I was not prepared for the intricate layers in this beautiful book.

Anna (aka "Goblin Girl") is the daughter of a paranormal investigator who kind of made me think of Sam and Dean's dad in Supernatural if he hadn't been as awesome. I didn't *like* Anna much, but part of that may have been due to the events going on in their little town of GenericSmalltownName. I feel like she had some good personal growth by the end of the book, and having a likeable main character seems to matter less to me in this genre than it does when I read romance, so it didn't really affect my rating. But she's kind of a jerk to her friends, and that dynamic was more believe to me than the quasi-love triangle going on. I had to keep reminding myself that she's 16, haha.

I love that Caroline Flarity kept me guessing about what was causing all the hoopla and craziness. The Ghost Hunter's Daughter has a lot of fun twists and turns, and is creepy without being TOO scary. Basically it's the perfect Halloween read and a fun way for the non-horror read to dip their toes into the genre.

Thank you Netgalley for sending me this arc. I will be reviewing this book in the near future with an honest rating and review.

Arc provided by NetGalley. This is a paranormal middle school ya book. I enjoyed the book but I thought the story line could move at a faster pace. It’s surprisingly dark. I wasn’t expecting that. . Anna is a high schooler, who has lost her mother and her father is a hoarder. She is having social problems because her daughter is a ghost hunter( he removes spirits from objects) and he has a hoarding problem that explains a into the yard and his car. She has a group of friends and a boyfriend. The other kids pick on her to no end. She lost her mother when an evil spirit possessed her. Things to start to get worse when she abandons her friends, who have alway been around for bad boyfriend Craig.
She begins to get support from her dads new assurance Genevieve. Anna starts researching more and uncovers some evil spirits at work.

Review: 4/5 stars
The Ghost Hunter's Daughter is a Teen Horror aimed primarily at 15-16 year olds. That being said, I did really enjoy this. It's nice to have a simple easy read sometimes that doesn't require a huge amount of focus to understand what's happening and who's who. What I particularly loved about the book is that there isn't a long drawn out buildup at the beginning. From the first page we are thrown straight in to the paranormal goodness. Our protagonist is a teenage girl who's Father is a Ghost Hunter by profession and we see that she is drawn in to that world with him from a young age. What I found particularly appealing was that the protagonist wasn't a Miss Goody Two Shoes, supermodel protege who is perfect at everything in life. Whenever I read teen/YA my inner teenage frizzy haired, spotty, geeky girl is driven bonkers by the 'chosen one' type trope or the girl that is so good at everything and is incredibly beautiful but just doesn't realise it. So our protagonist being a realistic 'normal' girl who is bullied, has a bit of a crappy life, has real emotions, and makes mistakes is greatly appreciated. Personally, I think we need more of this type of main character in our teen/YA books to teach our kids that they don't have to be perfect to succeed!
Several times in the books we get snippets of text where we gain insights into other characters' thoughts and emotions and I really enjoyed this format to give a more rounded view of the events.
There are trigger warnings for suicide, sexual abuse, mental illness, bullying and self harm but personally I feel that they are quite mild, age appropriate and well written.