How did it first end up haunting little Georgiana (the ghost girl who became the demon’s host), why did it choose who it did. And though I understand that sometimes, we just don’t know about demons, I still wanted to know. I wanted to know: where and how it lived and came to haunt people. What I both liked and didn’t like (in a good way!), though, was in not understanding the origins of the demon. With his friends also haunted by the demon in the house, or perhaps, the demon of the house, Jesse and his pals all end up falling prey to the demon. He’s losing his hold on reality, and I felt for him. I felt trapped as Jesse, the main character, did, in his dead-end job, in a dead-end town, and rapidly, a deadening marriage. I didn’t find the story original, considering it’s the typical demon-possessed-house-that-needs-host kind of story, but Ahlborn’s fresh and tense writing brings the house, the ghost, and even the dead sleepy town to life. The book is clawed through with suspense, and while reading most of it in one sitting, I was unnerved and sufficiently spooked.Īhlborn does fantastic work crafting her main characters and bringing the dead girl’s ghost to life in a ruthless and demonic way. But it’s oh-so-good with Ahlborn’s wickedly tight writing. If You See Her is a typical, and maybe even stereotypical haunted house story.
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