I absolutely loved this unusual twist of the normal haunted house/paranormal activity trope. With alternating sections from all three authors, Rachel Hawkins, Ash Parsons, Vicky Alvear Shecter, the pacing and tension is perfect to build that eerie creeping fear that you want from a book like this. The only thing I wasn't a fan was the little bit of romance thrown in, but that's just me, I like my horror to be untainted by things like happiness and love 🤣.

Full review to come.

The Haunting of Beatrix Greene is a novel divided into several seasons and episodes. However, this review deals with the entire novel.
Beatrix Greene is a young orphan trying to survive in Victorian London as a medium, and up until the beginning of this story she has done so with moderate success. However, Beatrix is, in her own words, a fraud who does not possess paranormal powers of any kind and who uses her empathy to help relatives of the deceased find comfort and peace, in exchange for a certain sum of money, of course. .
All this changes when a mysterious Dr. James Walker hires her to spend a night at Ashbury Manor, a desolate mansion where she believes she keeps terrible secrets.
Accompanied by her friend Harry, a paranormal photographer, Dr. Walker and a brief appearance by the famous Arthur Conan Doyle, our heroine will face the forces that have made Ashbury Manor her home.
An excellent paranormal gothic horror novel that will draw the reader into Ashbury Manor and not let them out until the last page. I highly recommend it!

(this review goes live on my website 10/19/2022)

I don’t remember how I came to have this e-ARC (whether I requested it, if it was a Read Now title, or if I was invited to review it). To be honest, I read it quite a while ago. I’m just really REALLY far behind on writing reviews – there’s not enough time in a day! But, I do remember that I enjoyed The Haunting of Beatrix Greene quite a bit. More than I expected to, frankly. See, the 3 credited authors on the cover kind of concerned me. Would three people be able to seamlessly weave a narrative? Or would it just feel disjointed and weird? In this case, it was the former. I almost immediately forgot that there were multiple authors to the story. It felt cohesive, and not at all like there were too many cooks in the kitchen.

Beatrix Greene is a fun character. I mean, she’s a fraud, right? Who doesn’t like to see a plucky young Victorian woman trying to keep herself in a home without no man? I know I do. I don’t care if she has to defraud a few people to do it, either.

But even better than being *just* a fraud, Beatrix Greene is a fraud with a heart of gold (well, sort of). She doesn’t feel super great about defrauding sometimes vulnerable people, but she’s still willing to do it because she does feel super great about having a place to sleep and food to eat. And James Walker is a fun foil/potential love interest.

Basically, if you like the feel of gothic horror, but you (for some reason I can’t imagine) don’t like the pacing, Beatrix Greene might be your Goldilocks book. It has all the trappings of a gothic horror story, but the pacing of a serial. Because I think that is actually what it is, technically. So it’s gothic in atmosphere, but with a faster pace.

Like I said, this was pretty good. Although admittedly, I didn’t 100% love the pacing. I wish it had been just a touch longer to better develop the characters. They were pretty good, but I just wasn’t super invested in them, you know? I think that could have been fixed by slowing it down and lengthening the story just a touch.

Beatrix Greene is a discreet spiritual medium - invited by James Walker to spend the night in his childhood home where brutal murders occurred during his childhood. What Beatrix doesn't expect is for real powers to surface and real spirits to terrify the group. This has all the makings of a good supernatural series.

I love when authors collaborate on books! The Haunting of Beatrix Greene takes us to Victoria England where a Beatrix is a spiritual medium, only she doesn't believe in ghosts and is definitely not communicating with the dead.

The authors create a detailed and atmospheric setting, well matched to the ghostly plot. The characters, in particular Beatrix and James, are richly developed, interesting and keep your attention.

A fun read during spooky season or if you're like me, all year round.

Thank you to Serial Box and Netgally for the gifted e-arc to review.

I loved this book. (I also loved Crimson Peak, which this novel is compared to.) A spooky atmosphere in a gothic setting with curious yet interesting characters and the supernatural -- I had difficulty putting it down.

I picked up The Haunting of Beatrix Greene when I was looking for some spooky, atmospheric reads to get me in the Halloween spirit (despite it not being Halloween.) The cover was pretty, and I liked the idea of this dynamic between a scientist and spiritualist going head to head.

A smooth read, I breezed through the story. Scenes were seamless and I have no idea how three authors were involved in the writing since it all felt cohesive — told with one voice. For a short story, the characters had more depth than many other, drawn out horrors, and their banter with one another was fun. The horror was more horror lite, but the spooky atmosphere was unbeatable.

This is simply a solid, fun read when in the mood for a tense creeping story.

DNF - Did not finish. I did not connect with the writing style or plot and will not be finishing this title. Thank you, NetGalley and Publisher for the early copy!

A haunted house in the Victorian era, a fake medium who has more powers than she realises, and a colony of angry ghosts certainly has all the ingredients for a Halloween-worthy gothic horror.

Beatrix Greene is a spiritualist, or in better words, a calm presence who is able to offer her clients peace and closure. She can't actually communicate with the dead and that is exactly what sceptic, James Walker, wants to expose. However there's something about Beatrice that he trusts and with that feeling, he invites her and a handful of others to a Victorian mansion where he is determined to either prove or disprove spiritual activity. Once inside, Beatrice realises her true abilities, which could put not just her, but the whole party in mortal danger.

The Haunting of Beatrix Greene is certainly different, with multiple authors and released as a series of 'episodes' (although I read this as the full book so didn't experience the story as it was intended). Haunted houses are one of my favourite settings and this one was definitely spooky. I can't say I was feeling the romance that ensued (some genres just shouldn't be mixed in my opinion) or the motive but I liked the fast pace and, ironically, the ending. I would have liked more exploration into the history of the house and James' family background as some parts/characters felt skimmed over in favour of building the tension in the present day. There wasn't much depth which, on the surface, made it a great horror story, but as literary fiction made it too similar to hundreds of other books in the genre.

When it comes to reading anything in the horror genre, I generally base my scare factor on how easily I can read the book when home alone at night. I found I wasn't overly affected and was probably more grossed out by some of the descriptions than the actual horrors taking place. I do, however, think it might have been different if I listened on audio in serial format like the book was intended.

After doing some research, it looks like this was released in podcast form and all episodes are available on major platforms! I think it would be great to listen in that format, so I would recommend.

As far as the story goes, I did really enjoy it. Gives me Haunting of Hill House vibes in a good way. Possessed house, unexplained murder-suicide, seances, the whole nine yards. It was a creepy, quick read.

I loved reading this installment of the series!! I am all about a creepy Victorian gothic novel, and this story fit the bill! Beatrix Greene is a medium brought to a haunted mansion by a skeptic (James) and determine if it is, indeed, haunted. This was well written and I certainly want to read the other installments!

I just reviewed The Haunting of Beatrix Greene by Rachel Hawkins, Ash Parsons, Vicky Alvear Shecter. #TheHauntingofBeatrixGreene #NetGalley
So when reviewers say that it was just an Ok read, I get confused and wonder if we are talking about the same book.
This story had ghosts and hauntings, possessions, torture and a little passion!
It was an easy read. Especially for the month of October. Such a great powerful lead. I do hope we are graced with a series soon. I don’t want to spoil it for anyone so just read it. I do feel like the author held back a bit and could have made it even more intense and shocking but believe had that been the case there would be no series for sure. I did enjoy the authors style of writing. Check it out!

A great quick, spooky/supernatural read. Didn't know this was going to be in a episode format so definitely intrigued by the rest.

I love a haunted house book, and this one set in Victorian England was outside my comfort zone and also worth the risk! Beatrix Green is a discreet spiritual medium who is invited to by scientist and skeptic James to stay in a reportedly haunted mansion overnight to determine if it is haunted by a vengeful spirit. Eerie, atmospheric, and so well written, definitely recommend to genre lovers!

Beatrix Greene is an amazing liar. She has managed to fool the public into believing she is a psychic medium who can contact the dead... She puts on a convincing show...

Her biggest problem comes in the shape of James Walker, a sceptic and scientist who makes it his business to expose mediums as the frauds he feels they are. In a weird twist he has an offer for Beatrix - to spend the night in the reputedly haunted Ashbury Manor, to deliver evidence of a ghost, or prove the claims of the Manor being haunted as bogus. He has the money to pay for her services....

My biggest issue was this is part one of many and that made me a little nuts!

It is worth the wait though. Well written, a full fledge gothic read!

This was a very fast, quick read - I didn't realize it was a part of a serial box story. While I thought this was a fun, interesting read, I wish I would've been more familiar with the concept of serial box. Of course, I love everything Rachel Hawkins writes, so I appreciated this read a lot.

This is an intriguing and spooky Victorian gothic ghost story. It was originally released in installments via SerialBox.

Unfortunately I was not able to get into this but appreciate what they are trying to do here. I hope to pick this up again and give it a try.

Rachel Hawkins was one of my favorite YA authors as a teen, however, I think I've grown out of her writing. I found this book to be incredibly vanilla. The writing was very plain and left me wanting more. This book was decent enough, but I wouldn't give it a reread.

Spooky and gorgeous. I'm glad this book didn't slip below my radar. I'll be on the lookout for more from this author in the next.