I'd like to thank the publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to read this book.

I will say this - I really, really like the way the author writes. It's to the point and she invokes some gothic traits / tropes for sure.

I just wish there was something going on in this book! I was enjoying the doctor heading to this estate, finding that something was wrong with his reason for being there and working with the daughter on finding out what's wrong with the mother. I just feel like the little bits and the side-plots weren't well done.

There is the character Rowena who the ML starts hitting on. She is bland, bland, BLAND and yet he is drawn to her. His love for her kind of drops into the story out of nowhere. It isn't really built up well. The way that the author built up the FL (since some chapters are focused on her) you would think that she is the love interest. There was one point that the FL and Rowena are talking amongst one another and the author makes you think that Rowena may be gay for the FL. That's when I realized, oh, the author is trying to tell us that the FL is gay and Rowena (because she falls into bed with the ML) is straight.

The end of the book was when the story came together, which was satisfying (because I never would have guessed what the real outcome of why the ML was brought to the estate), but I would have liked more creepy things built up around this group / cult.

Anyway, 3/5 romp.

This was a good book. It had a unique story and it was interesting to read. It was not my favorite story. But I think that a lot of people will love it!