Great story, plots of twists and turns that kept me interested and captivated.

Narration was good and brought story to life passionately.

I throughly enjoyed this audiobook by Erika Wurth. Her characters were engaging, complex, believable & diverse. What enjoyed most was while the book was definitely horror it also told the story of a family dealing with complex problems. The narrator was fantastic as well.

This was clearly a very personal book for Erika T Wirth. Another interesting horror mystery with a prickly protagonist (in the best way) from her.

Thanks to Flatiron and NetGalley for the advance audiobook.

3/5 Stars. Thank you to Erika Wurth, the publisher, and Netgalley for the audio arc!

Olivia Becente, an indigenous person, has gone from PhD psychologist to paranormal investigator due to a series of life events (and choices) that lead her down that path. Because of that, she's become one of the top paranormal investigators in Denver, where she works and lives. Her roommate and assistant, Alejandro, take on all manner of cases but lately, they all seem to be connecting to one thing: the death of Olivia's sister, Naiche, in room 904 at the Browne Palace. And when the Browne Palace calls her to investigate the haunting, she can't say no.

I found this one a little hard to wrap my head around, maybe because it was audio. From the opening of the book until the Browne Palace was introduced, I was wondering how everything was going to be tied together. Parts seemed disjointed, and near the end, when everything was being tied up in a bow, it seemed out of place. Especially with the events happening with Olivia's mother. Having a long expository section between Olivia and another character made me question the urgency of the situation.

There were a lot of characters involved that I felt we only scraped the surface of really understanding. Olivia and Alejandro had the most time, which makes sense, but then there are friends involved, ex-husbands, ex-boyfriends, and reporters out for blood that were a little harder to keep track of during the middle. Again, there's a good attempt to tie it all up in the end, but it made the middle a little harder to follow.

What I really did enjoy was how the indigenous history was brought in, weaving through the novel. There's so much about it I don't know, but it did pique my interest to look further into some of the things referenced. And it did play a major part in the book in a way that felt natural, not forced.

There are a lot of things going on in this book! What a wild ride! The narrator is absolutely wonderful for the audiobook.

Olivia finds herself with a gift, the same gift that her sister that passed away had, the ability to communicate with the dead. Olivia's sister Naiche died under some odd circumstances, and Olivia has made it a mission to find out what really happened to her. Brown Palace, a hotel in the Denver area reaches out to Olivia with a mystery that she is bound to solve. And things start to come together related to her sister tied into the Brown Palace hotel.

Pros:
A lot going on helps to stay engaged
Tense and scary atmosphere
Unique Premise

Cons:
More of a slow burn
Some areas could have additional detail

This may be a paranormal thriller but it's not horror and that's what it's marketed as. I think readers wouldn't be so disappointed if the genres were properly labeled. It was too detailed and that took way from the characters and hurt the narrative flow.

A female paranormal investigator with a unique gift is asked to investigate deaths that occur every few years in room 904 at the Brown Palace hotel. Why is this happening and how does this connect to her sister’s mysterious death? I thought I would love this paranormal mystery thriller. Despite its feeling of dread, twists and revelations, this book just didn't work for me.

I listened to the audiobook and the narrator did a very good job. The premise and the mystery were very intriguing, but I struggled with getting into this book. Readers are given a lot of details and yet, I didn't feel for any of the characters and what was happening to them or around them.

While this book did not work for me, it did work for many readers, and I encourage those curious about this book to read their reviews as well. Sometimes a book just doesn't work for all readers. This is the case here. We can't love them all.

I’m so disappointed in this book and nothing like White Horse! Thank you NetGalley for the audiobook but this just wasn’t for me. From the beginning the story starts out strong and has lots of actions, but the characters are over the top and a lot of it felt repetitive.

Olivia, an indigenous paranormal investigator, is called to the Browne Palace to investigate a string of murders and mysterious happenings that keep occurring specifically in the room 904. She is already grappling with her sister's unsolved and untimely death in that very same room, but she feels a responsibility to solve what is taking place. As she is haunted by her sister, a dark entity, as well as a medicine woman, Olivia uses the visions she gets from each to put the puzzles pieces together. Is it the cult her sister was involved in? Her ex-boyfriend? Her best friend? The sins of the past? Olivia must leave no stone unturned until she gets justice for Naiche.

This book started out so good. I absolutely loved the first scene with some incredibly described haunting imagery, the use of Indigenous history intertwined within, and the backstory of Olivia and her inner circle. I started to slowly fall off though as each new character was introduced. It got a bit muddy for me and hard to follow who was who after a while, and I feel like what started off as something so great got lost as the story went on. I wish there would have been more of the exciting, haunting energy that the beginning of the story brought throughout to keep it more exciting. After a while, it just felt that Olivia was going from place to place to place with not much of anything that kept my interest unfortunately. I loved the flashbacks to the past to when the medicine woman and other entities that Olivia was haunted by were alive and thought that really added an interesting element to the story. Overall, this was just okay for me, but I do think some readers would really enjoy this one.

The audiobook was performed by Ina Barron, who I would absolutely listen to again! She did a wonderful job with this story.

Thank you to NetGalley, Erika T. Wurth, and Macmillan Audio for allowing me to listen to this advanced audiobook.

Excellent narration that matched the plot and tone of the book. I will definitely be recommending this title as well as the audiobook.

Thank you NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for this ALC! From chapter one, this story was action-packed! Starting out strong with a paranormal awakening and opening of a Pandora’s box. The characters were a little over the top and the details felt overly done, but generally a decent read/listen.

Thank you, NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for this ARC audiobook for review. I enjoyed this author’s first book, White Horse, so I wanted to see what they had written for their second book. This book throws you right into the story. Olivia Becente is a paranormal investigator in Denver and her current case is at a landmark hotel called the Brown Palace. Every few years a women is found dead in room 904 and the owner has no idea why, no matter what room they checked into the night before. This book is creepy and fun.

I love that this novel starts in the middle of the action. Immediately, you are drawn into this ghost story while the protagonist, a paranormal investigator, works a case. Although I was immediately intrigued, the next several chapters failed to draw me in. Wurth builds the story slowly, piece by piece, offering details that don't come together until the end. As she was building the story, I found it extremely boring. By the end, I could see what she was doing and appreciated it, but the ride was mostly boring. I very much enjoyed Wurth's first novel, White Horse, and had high expectations for this novel, but it failed to meet expectations.

4.5 stars rounded up. I was excited to get my hands on something new from the author of White Horse and I liked this book even more. It was like an indigenous and queer combination of Medium and 1408 which really suits my interests. I listened to the audiobook and liked the narrator's voicing and pacing. I really enjoyed the combination of horror, thriller, and mystery throughout the story. Almost every chapter ended on a cliffhanger in a way that had me wanting to keep going to find out what would happen next, see what the next twist would be, and find the answers to the mysteries. While I didn't enjoy the ending as much as the rest of the book, I still think it's worth reading or listening to.

I received an advanced copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.
The title and cover of this book intrigued me and made me excited to start this book. Although this book was easy to listen to, I found that I wasn’t as interested as I thought I would be. I was not invested in the characters or the storyline. I don’t think this was a bad book, it just wasn’t for me. I would recommend this book if you are interested in history, curses and the paranormal.

The Haunting of Room 904 was an enjoyable listen. Part supernatural investigation, part historical and current experience of indigenous Americans, with plenty of humor and just enough romance. The characters felt and behaved like they were real. For such an “easy” book to read, thanks to Wurth’s casual style, Haunting’s horrors are deep, raising questions about generational trauma, domestic abuse, and identity, and more. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys psychological and/or supernatural thrillers.

Thanks to MacMillan Audio & NetGalley for providing an audio ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I think this one just wasn't for me. It's a paranormal horror book, which is usually good with me, but this one didn't work and kind of falls apart IMO. In this story, we have Olivia, who became able to communicate with the dead after the tragic suicide of her sister, Naiche. Naiche was involved with a cult obsessed with a haunted room at an old Denver hotel, in which a woman dies by suicide every 5 years in room 904. Through a series of hauntings for which Olivia, who is now a paranormal investigator/fixer, is hired, a pattern slooooowlyyyy emerges in which we find that a long-ago massacre by whites of native people (in which children and other innocents were slaughtered without remorse ETA: apparently this is the Sand Creek Massacre, but I do not recall it being called this in the book?) is creating havoc in the current day.

There is a LOT going on here, and honestly, I found it kind of tedious and confusing. I enjoyed the Indigenous narrative, and the author clearly knows her stuff, but the idea that <spoiler>a string of Ebay purchases would be seeded to ensure that one paranormal investigator would get involved and piece everything together is kind of nutty and not believable - yes, I understand that the paranormal defies logic. It was odd to me that Olivia, who seems to have a firm moral compass and whose sister was an addict for a time, is willing to feign romantic interest that leads to actual frisson with a nepo baby drug dealer, not that we ever know exactly what's going on there, and we get more about Olivia's roommate's love life.</spoiler>

It was also strange to me that towards the end, it is revealed that white people in the 1860s discovered that the suffering of Native people could bring white people immortality; it felt a little like we were venturing into "magical Negro" territory. Add to that that <spoiler>Olivia is able to ultimately defeat the evil spirit assisting the spirits of long-dead white people who subjugated Indigenous people ... by *singing*</spoiler> didn't really do it for me.

I've seen comparisons to Ramona Emerson's work to this author's, and while I didn't love all of Emerson's last book, it was markedly better than this one, to me. I can see where the comparison comes in but this is much more horror-oriented.

Ina Barron does a good enough job with the voice acting, despite my complaints about her accent on Jewish character, Sascha (it's very Jackie Mason). She does a nice job with Spanish and Arapahoe/Cheyenne (as far as I can tell anyway for the latter).

I will say this is more on the horror side. I’m a HUGE horror girly so i love this. There is a lot of paranormal investigation! Never ended twists and turns. The characters are extremely well written. This audiobook really REALLY had me on my toes! I would recommend this to anyone who wants a horror book! 💜

Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for this scary ride ❤️

Also the narrator is GREAT!

This is my favorite by this author so far. I think I had a hard time putting myself into the story in her other books, but this one held my attention the whole way. There were so many different cultures and possibilities, which could have made it seem disjointed, but to me it just brought out all the possibilities when dealing with the supernatural.
Wurth is someone who uses action and magic/paranormal elements to tell a story. Olivia is a paranormal investigator haunted by the death of her sister, and it was fascinating to watch how she learned what really happened. The narrator was excellent, with just the right amount of tension. Thanks to NetGalley for letting me listen to this audiobook.

I tried really hard to get into this one, and while I'm really thankful to Macmillan Audio, Netgalley, and Erika T. Wurth for granting me advanced access to this title, I think I'd much rather hand it off to a friend for them to take a stab at it.