Name: She Is a Haunting
Rating: 3.711538461538462 (26 reviews)
ISBN: 9781547610815

Trang Thanh Tran

She Is a Haunting

Emiley Jones

Standing in this house is as claustrophobic as being in a forest clearing, surrounded by woods that have seen more than you—this spot, most of all. It is bare and clean, and even emptied, I feel like I've trespassed.

Neither of us has the language or time to figure it out yet, and there's a power in never being known because no one can use you against you.

This book went in so many directions I didn't expect and they were all incredibly delightful (you know, in a horrific, sinister way). The way the author writes intrusive thoughts rings so true. It's such a small thing compared to the much bigger horrors in the novel, but it's a real horror that I'm intimately familiar with, and it's been written with such precision. It really brought me into the story.

Jonnie

This one dug into my skin, crawled into my lungs, and then set me on fire. Compulsive, heartwrenching and beautifully creepy. I'm holding Jade Nguyen and all her prickly, haunted, desperately soft pieces close to me forever.

PS I wrote an entire essay about this book about the motifs of food and hunger, and how it resonates with Asian family, colonialism and diaspora

teks

was a little slow to start but then i got super into it. jade’s relationship with her queerness and her family made my chest ache. eldest daughter syndrome🤞

dnfed at 70% 

i didnt care enough about the characters, the story, or the romance to keep reading so i eventually gave up.

She is a Haunting

I think this book was supremely excellent. Its been a long time since a book has adequately scared me, and this one sufficiently freaked me out. It took over an hour to fall asleep last night. I loved the unflinching way it showed Vietnamese history and culture. When phrases were said in Vietnamese, they were rarely translated, instead the emotion of what was said, the inference was left in the hands of the reader to figure it out. It was stunning and amazing. 

I only deducted a half star because the ending felt extremely rushed and not given as much attention and patience as the rest of the book. Also there were other times where I felt like I missed something. As though one more read through would have been needed. To be fair, this was not a completed version that I read. So its entirely possible that both these issues could be fixed by publication. 

Christine Bruce

I think this book was supremely excellent. Its been a long time since a book has adequately scared me, and this one sufficiently freaked me out. It took over an hour to fall asleep last night. I loved the unflinching way it showed Vietnamese history and culture. When phrases were said in Vietnamese, they were rarely translated, instead the emotion of what was said, the inference was left in the hands of the reader to figure it out. It was stunning and amazing. 

I only deducted a half star because the ending felt extremely rushed and not given as much attention and patience as the rest of the book. Also there were other times where I felt like I missed something. As though one more read through would have been needed. To be fair, this was not a completed version that I read. So its entirely possible that both these issues could be fixed by publication. 

Stark Koenig

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Ashley

This deliciously spooky, yearningly romantic ghost story from a brilliant debut author will thrill fans of Kalynn Bayron and Wilder Girls by Rory Power.Jade Nguyen has always lied to fit in. She's straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough - at least for this summer with her estranged father in Vietnam. Just five weeks of ignoring the quietly decaying French colonial house he's fixing up, then college and freedom are hers.But soon Jade begins waking up every morning certain that something has clawed down her throat ... from the inside. Then the ghost of a beautiful bride visits her with a cryptic warning: DON'T EAT.When her father and little sister don't believe her, Jade decides to scare them into leaving by staging some haunting events of her own. She recruits Florence, the daughter of her dad's business associate (and more of a distraction than Jade bargained for) to help. But the house has other plans. It's hungry. A home, after all, is only as powerful as those who breathe new life into its bones. And this one is determined never to be abandoned again ...

She Is a Haunting

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