May The Dead Keep You by Jill Baguchinsky Review

Catie is a 17-year-old living in the Heights, an old, enormous, castle of a house in a forest with her mom and older brother. When she gets a neighbor, Hunter, Catie is scared and intrigued, and also intriguing to Hunter. Catie and now Hunter live in a huge, mysterious forest, a setting that is very much a character in the story, along with the house, the Heights.

As Catie starts to become friends, and maybe more than friends with Hunter, she also starts having strange visions and symptoms around her house, and her brother isn’t acting normally either.

This story is very mysterious and a real page turner. Every chapter in the book, until the end, closes with a cliffhanger making you NEED to turn the page and keep reading. Mixed in with Cathie’s first person present day accounts are “emphemera” of former residents of The Heights, Cath and neighbor Eddie, and Cath’s parents. This definitely adds to the suspense.

This is a YA book but I think it would appeal to an adult audience also, some parts are pretty dark. I’d recommend it to anyone looking for a haunted house set in a forest. Thanks to Colored Pages book tours, Little Brown Young Readers, and the NOVL for the ARC.