Haunt Sweet Home

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Hardcover, 176 pages

English language

Published Sept. 3, 2024 by Tor.com.

ISBN:
978-1-250-33026-0
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4 stars (1 review)

On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spooky ghost story from multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Sarah Pinsker.

“Don’t talk to day about what we do at night.”

When aimless twenty-something Mara lands a job as the night-shift production assistant on her cousin’s ghost hunting/home makeover reality TV show Haunt Sweet Home, she quickly determines her new role will require a healthy attitude toward duplicity. But as she hides fog machines in the woods and improvises scares to spook new homeowners, a series of unnerving incidents on set and a creepy new coworker force Mara to confront whether the person she's truly been deceiving and hiding from all along―is herself.

Eerie and empathetic, Haunt Sweet Home is a multifaceted, supernatural exploration of finding your own way into adulthood, and into yourself.

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reviewed Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker

Haunt Sweet Home, by Sarah Pinsker

4 stars

Mara Billings is the resentful butt of a lot of family jokes. Where her relatives have found spouses, jobs, and even a bit of fame (in the case of her cousin Jeremy), Mara has dropped out of college more than once and has no idea what she wants to do with her life. In Haunt Sweet Home, Sarah Pinsker’s unusual coming-of-age story, Mara finally gets an opportunity to come into her own, albeit on the set of a cheap reality TV show about haunted houses...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, for review consideration.