Review: Haunted: Perron Manor (Haunted #1)

4 stars. Wow, that was awesome!! Most random KU discovery ever. I am clearly in my ~ horror era ~ and I can't get enough of all the fresh, literary, disturbing, new voices out there, but sometimes I really crave your basic trope-filled fear fest. And this delivered that as a truly tasty snack and beyond. Blew my expectations out of the water. 

Sisters Chloe and Sarah inherit an old house, Perron Manor, and decide to move in and fix the place up. Chloe brings along her husband Andrew and baby daughter Emma, and Sarah has time on her hands after leaving the military. There's a creepy old furnace, a locked study full of occult artifacts, and a lot of rumors about the history of the place, which the locals call Devil's House. Eventually things escalate... you know the rest.

Think of it as an extra scary, well-written episode of A Haunting or Paranormal Witness - both shows that I absolutely adore (and were my after-school gateways to the horror I consume today). Suitable set-up, characters that are just interesting enough to care for, and some surprisingly awesome scares. Kind of like a campfire story. Dependably creepy and you pretty much know what you're going to get. In a good way!

And yeah, I maybe would mention that it escalates quickly. The pacing is fine, it just... shoots out of control a little at the end. I had no idea there would be a cliffhanger and it made me want to read the next one immediately! Seriously, don't sleep on these books. I intend to make them my new palette cleansers in-between other books. Good stuff.

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