Member Review

She is a haunting is a frustrating book, that seems to be unclear as to it's purpose. It explores the family dynamic between separated immigrants as they struggle to adjust. Jade's father chose to return to Vietnam and the house where his parents worked, turning it into a boutique hotel. Jade's resentment at his abandonment of their family is tested as she travels to Vietnam with her sister to 'earn' her college fund. This familial tale is then warped into a horror story as the house appears to have it's own agenda 'learning from it's unhappy past inhabitants.

The premise and style didn't really commit fully to the suspense and 'gore' of a traditional horror as the family dynamic layered over it competes for the reader's attention and the relationship of Jade and her father equally lacked in any real sense of connection. Not for me, perhaps hampered by reading on my mobile phone.