The Screaming Staircase
2013 • 467 pages

Ratings87

Average rating4.2

15

DNF - Page 44

Why?

She was prettier than me, round-cheeked, small-nosed, with a full-lipped mouth and large, imploring eyes. She looked like the kind of girl I'd always instinctively disliked - soft and silly, passive when it mattered, and, when it didn't, reliant on her charms to get her way.

Do I really have to explain any more? (Do note that this was a ghost Lucy was describing, who was probably murdered.)

Besides this, I wasn't feeling the book. It's too cerebral for a horror/ghost story. There's no emotion to the way the main character tells it.