I'm starting to notice that when a romantic subplot is introduced, I'm just bound to not like the story at all. I liked the story Cleithrophobia the best (I swear, the final stories in these end up being the best ones), and I liked how the bonus story at the end was a continuation of the previous installment's, but I was desperately trying to get to the end of the first two stories--Somniphobia and Pressure. I was even tempted to skip over the short bonus story at the end because of how much talk there was about the character's relationships with each other before it finally ended.

A lot of he likes her but she likes him and he also happens to like her--very little payoff when the scares end up being the shortest scenes throughout the book and are always found at the end, no matter if they're actually impactful or not (the conclusion to Pressure was fine while Cleithrophobia's was incredibly gruesome, but Somniphobia's was underwhelming).

As a lot of people have also said in their reviews, it's getting harder and harder to tell what age group these books are actually for... I've been categorizing them as middle-grade this whole entire time because, in most cases, the stories leading up to the scares feel incredibly juvenile, but the gore said stories lead up to definitely aren't. Was especially squeamish while reading the end of Cleithrophobia. Bro who are these books for 'cus I STILL haven't figured it out yet