This wasn’t for me. I didn’t like the language (tons of trigger warnings here for hate speech, vile language, sexual language, etc etc), I didn’t get the metaphor (fascism, racism, transphobia, antisemitism are bad yes but what did they have to do with the haunted house), I didn’t like the characters (both of them need therapy and god are there literally ONLY unhealthy relationships in this), I don’t know why we had to be so racist/ transphobic/ antisemitic/ etc to prove a point, and I don’t understand the house plot. I still don’t know why the house is haunted. I know why Alice and Ila have trauma but I don’t know what I’m supposed to take from it — that sometimes rape accusations are all in your head? That can’t be right. 

Maybe there was a point to this book and maybe it will mean something to someone, help them feel seen. Not me, but I wasn’t the target audience, so…