Genre: YA Horror
Published: September 2, 2023
Pages: 152
High school senior Rebecca "Bex" Koeltl is just trying to make it to graduation. But when her fellow seniors begin dying in seemingly unrelated incidents, Bex uncovers disturbing connections between their deaths, including that the teens believed they were haunted by long-dead relatives their own family members swear never existed. After Bex is visited by a malevolent specter of her own, she realizes she has to get the bottom of this horror before she's its next victim...
I received an audiobook version of this book through Netgalley. This is my honest review.
This book reminded me of my love for YA horror. It reminded me of how I felt reading books like I Know What You did Last Summer as a teenager, and as an older millennial I'm all about the nostalgia. I found Bex to be a really interesting character, and a bit relatable as I also often felt more interested in books than people in high school. As far as I know, I'm not autistic though (although being an older millennial the possibility of me simply not being diagnosed is not insignificant).
This story kept me guessing until the bitter end. Every time I thought I had figured things out, I was simply wrong. But I'm not the only one who fell for the misdirects.
The narration had a kind of monotone quality to it for the narrative parts of the story. But the different characters voices were distinct and nuanced.
Overall I give Who Haunts You 4.7832 out of 5 stars. - Katie
Mark Wheaton is the award-winning author of EMILY ETERNAL (Grand Central, 2019, written as M.G. Wheaton) which has been translated into 5 languages, and was named one of the Best Science Fiction Novels of the Year by the Financial Times. Booklist called it cleverly written and said "Fans of Andy Weir and Blake Crouch will enjoy the wit and action of Emily's story.” Mark also wrote an LA-set crime trilogy. the first of which, FIELDS OF WRATH, sold over 200,000 copies (Thomas & Mercer, 2016-2017). Most recently he’s the author of THE QUAKE CITIES (Severn House, 2021), about which Booklist said: "This post-apocalyptic novel will appeal to fans across genres, and the resoundingly hopeful conclusion is a welcome message.” Kirkus Reviews calls his upcoming novel, WRAITH, "an involving and fast-moving family-ghost thriller…” His first horror short story appeared in the 2021 Stoker Award-nominated anthology, WORST LAID PLANS, from Grindhouse Press. Subsequently, he has had horror shorts published in anthologies from Dark Peninsula Press, Sentinel Creatives, Blood Song Books, Macabre Ladies, 18th Wall, HellBound Books, Excessive Nuance, Bag of Bones Press, Dead Sea Press, Fedowar Press, Black Hart, and more. He has also worked as a screenwriter (FRIDAY THE 13TH, THE MESSENGERS, VOICE FROM THE STONE, etc.), comic book writer (Dark Horse's THE CLEANERS), video game scribe (F.E.A.R. franchise), and journo for movie magazines like FANGORIA, SFX, TOTAL FILM, and more.
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