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A review by kel
The Haunting of the Antique Brooch by Hina Ansari
medium-paced
2.0
This was certainly an interesting read and honestly I don't really know how to feel about it. I think my issue with the writing impacted my overall enjoyment of the book, because it was not great to be honest, but there was still a lot of things I enjoyed so it ended up a fairly solid read anyway.
I originally picked this up because it looked like it was going to be a gay haunted house story and I wasn't disappointed there. The romance however... wasn't my favorite but that probably is because I didn't feel connected to anything to do with this story and didn't really care about the romance because of that. It was kind of rushed and not really detailed and I just wish we would have gotten more from them.
This is also a pretty basic ghost story in my opinion. I've seen a lot of a horror movies and so there wasn't really anything that shocked me about this but that's okay. I'm not gonna fault the book for that. I think the diversity within the story really helped a lot though and I enjoyed the twist on it. I just don't think
Overall, I just didn't connect with the writing. At all. It was very choppy and not well done though I do think it got better as the book went on. It's a debut novel however so I'm not gonna put too much thought into that. I also thought the story itself was very basic ghost story and kind of cheesy at times but I think it was supposed to be so again, not gonna fault it for that.
In the end it was just very meh to me.
I originally picked this up because it looked like it was going to be a gay haunted house story and I wasn't disappointed there. The romance however... wasn't my favorite but that probably is because I didn't feel connected to anything to do with this story and didn't really care about the romance because of that. It was kind of rushed and not really detailed and I just wish we would have gotten more from them.
This is also a pretty basic ghost story in my opinion. I've seen a lot of a horror movies and so there wasn't really anything that shocked me about this but that's okay. I'm not gonna fault the book for that. I think the diversity within the story really helped a lot though and I enjoyed the twist on it. I just don't think
Overall, I just didn't connect with the writing. At all. It was very choppy and not well done though I do think it got better as the book went on. It's a debut novel however so I'm not gonna put too much thought into that. I also thought the story itself was very basic ghost story and kind of cheesy at times but I think it was supposed to be so again, not gonna fault it for that.
In the end it was just very meh to me.