Synopsis
Fright House is waiting to be unlocked. And she is the key. Penny Winters can see ghosts. Or she’s insane. Desperate and on the run, she lucks into a job at Fright House. But a one time insane asylum turned Halloween attraction is the last place she should be. Workers start disappearing. The walls move. And Penny’s past comes back to haunt her as Fright House’s tormented spirits awaken. Tory Jackson is obsessed with hunting ghosts. So when he and his ragtag team of Paranormal Scene Investigators are brought in to cleanse the old asylum of evil, it may finally be his chance to prove ghosts exist. But the evil within Fright House has plans of its own, and as the night devolves into chaos and terror, Penny and Tory will learn that the line between the living and the dead is one slice of a scalpel.
What I enjoyed and what made this story good: Haunted house attraction in an abandoned asylum provides a perfect scene for fast pace scares. Multiple mental backstories tie together the guilt, shame and trouble of our various characters and our spirits. Quick stomach punches of violence are shocking, but not so drawn out that you need to stop reading. Ghost hunters, mediums, a creepy little girl, possessions and just the right amount of humor.
Multiple mental backstories tie together the guilt, shame and trouble of our various characters and our spirits.
Suron
It gets going right from the start with the weird (which I appreciate) although I would have loved a bit more detail on the aftermath. Overall a good straightforward horror. Would love to read what happens if the author ever did a sequel and brought Penny back to Fright House in the future.
For transparency I had 2 peeves while reading. 1) A few minor formatting issues reading on my phone/kindle. Pretty sure this comes with the territory of sometimes reading electronically. 2) The Authors use of the line from the cover “the last place she should be” several times early on and I was like okay I get it, explain why already. Lol. To be fair he did eventually.
Thanks to Henry Roi PR for getting this YA horror read into my hands. Thank you Fred Wiehe for the great read!
