There was a line I loved in particular, “Ghosts and girls go hand in hand. I also liked how Miller takes the idea of the tragic woman in a Gothic haunted house story and tweaks with it a bit. From flashes of someone running across the property at night, to the sense of someone standing just around the doorway but right out of sight, the unsettling moments were crafted and described very well. For one, there were some really creepy moments within the manor house, moments that felt like they could have fit right in in a classic haunted house story. We will start with what I did like about this book.

And I didn’t really get that from this book, unfortunately. All I wanted was something creepy and satisfying to match the atmosphere, as well as a story that would keep me on my toes and tick all the boxes of a genre that I love. I hadn’t read anything by Miller before this book, so I had no idea what to expect. There is just something about the dead of winter that makes a haunted house story feel all the more ominous, probably the isolation factor (which is amped up by the pandemic we are facing right now), and while my review is just now coming out in the Spring, I will say that had I read it now that feeling would have been different. I decided to pick up “Don’t Tell a Soul” by Kirsten Miller after a Minnesota snow storm, one of the first of the season and no doubt a precursor to a long winter ahead. Review: Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an eARC of this novel! And if Bram looks too hard into the town’s haunted past, she might not either. The terrifying reality is that the Dead Girls may have never left the manor. Girls whose lives were cut short in the very house Bram now calls home. Most frightening of all are the legends they tell about the Dead Girls. The people of Louth don’t want outsiders like Bram in their town, and with each passing day she’s discovering that the rumors they spread are just as disturbing as the secrets they hide. The manor is creepy, and so are the locals.

The tragedy left James a shell of the man Bram knew-and destroyed half the house he’d so lovingly restored. Months earlier, his beloved wife died in a fire that people say was set by her daughter.

The only place left to go is Louth, the tiny town on the Hudson River where her uncle, James, has been renovating an old mansion. In Louth, they’re called the Dead Girls.Īll Bram wanted was to disappear-from her old life, her family’s past, and from the scandal that continues to haunt her. It preys on the weakest, and young women are its favorite victims. Where Did I Get This Book: I received an eARC from NetGalley.īook Description: People say the house is cursed. Publishing Info: Delacorte Press, January 2021 Book: “Don’t Tell a Soul” by Kirsten Miller

Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller