Me and this book just didn't get on well together. I started originally listening to the audio book and the narrator was awful so then I started reading the book and it still didn't do anything for me. Instead of finding it funny or creepy, it came across as extremely cheesy to me. Maybe something was lost in translation or it's just me but I don't like it at all so I'm calling it quits.

Finally, I'm finished with this book! I felt like I kept reading & reading it would just never end! I wanted to read this book because I really like Simone St. James and she gave this book 5 stars on GR. I figured since Simone knows how to write fantastic ghost stories then it must be good. Well that just goes to show you that everyone has different tastes and expectations. A 5 star review for one person, may be a 3 star review for someone else...

Since I spent so much time on this book already, I'm going to make this short. The story was slow & boring. There were a couple of chapters that had some creepy parts but that was about it. All of the suspense was taken out of it by the author's writing style of tell, tell, tell. It had the perfect Icelandic setting and could have been very atmospheric but even it wasn't done well. The majority of the story actually read more like crime fiction, so if you're in the mood for a good creepy ghost story, I would find something else to read! 

Simone St. James said "this is quite possibly the scariest ghost story I've ever read" (Simone's Review) and since Simone wrote The Haunting of Maddy Clare which is one of the scariest ghost stories I've ever read, I figured this had to be good. So far though it's been pretty slow and a little creepy but not scary. Maybe I'm just not far enough into it yet though...