"The Haunting" by Natasha Preston. I try to be generous with this one because it was a gift, not something usually in my wheelhouse (a YA novel) but I didn't like it. It's an attempt at "Scream" (teen slasher) which begs the question of why the title since no one is being haunted, more like hunted. It was a pretty shallow read, no depth to any of the characters (the main girl is downright stupid half the time), nothing complex in the story, the killer was obvious and I hated the ending. It tried to do a cliffhanger ending which felt like a cop out. Who lived, who died? No one knows cause it just cut off without those answers. It's a F-.
"What Waits In The Woods" by Terri Parlato. A young woman returns to her hometown after an injury ends her ballet career only to discover her friend from HS was murdered in the woods behind her childhood home. I didn't feel much urgency from the plot. The ballerina character was often useless and the cop investigating the crime just sort of ambled in and out of the story before bumbling into the solution at the end. I was mostly bored with this one. C-.
"Fairy Tale" by Stephen King. I'm reading this one now, it's one of his dictionary sized books. 😂 I'm halfway through it and I really loved the beginning, but think the middle needs to speed up the plot a bit. But so far, so good.
