We Have Always Lived in the Castle

This whole thing is creepy, you don't know what's real and what isn't, no one is reliable. I don't know if I'd really describe this as fun, but I finished the last half in one sitting, because I was riveted. I felt like it was a good horror story for people like me who don't really do horror, but can handle underlying dread, knowing nothing's going to pop out at you.

I didn't especially buy all that stuff about the townspeople bringing food at the end, as they spent the entire book terrorizing Constance and Mary Katherine. I know Mary Katherine says at the beginning she's 18, but she felt like a MUCH younger character to me, and I kept imagining her as a precocious, if somewhat psychotic, tween. But what a great twist in the middle, with Uncle Julian telling Cousin Charles that Merricat was dead! I spent the rest of the book trying to figure out if she was a ghost or a living person. I'm ... pretty sure she was still alive??