May Mini-Review - What Walks These Walls

Another day, another mini-review and this book is one I did a blog tour for! Yes, I finally read a book that I did a blog tour for! WHO WOULD HAVE KNOWN I CAN ACTUALLY DO THIS!?

Title and Author: What Walks These Halls by Amy Clarkin

Publisher: The O'Brien Press

Bought, Borrowed or Gifted: Gifted by the publisher in exchange for an honest review/reaction and to partake in online blog tour

Buy from (Affiliate): Bookshop.org 

Hyacinth House is the most haunted house in Ireland. So haunted in fact, that it's not reported about at all. Raven doesn't remember what happened in Hyacinth House five years ago. Her father died in that house during a paranormal investigation and, though everyone says it was a terrible accident, Rave is certain that it was her fault.

So when her younger brother, Arthur, decides to start up the family business of paranormal investigating and he's asked to investigate Hyacinth House for a house sale, he can't resist even though Raven is horrified by the idea...

Éabha can see and hear things no one else can. She's not sure if it's emotions from the past, ghosts or something else, but she decides that she has to find out. When she crosses paths with Arthur and his ragtag team of paranormal hunters, she thinks it's a great place to start.

But everyone has a secret or two to hide. And Hyacinth House has its own as well...

As this is a short, mini-review, let me keep this short. It was a fun read, once you get over the slow start.

I get why the first half of the book is much slower pace than the latter half: for us to know the characters, to build up the creepy, the family history, us to be on the same footing as our characters. But it did, at times, drag. There were times I just wanted something to happen so the plot would get moving, something creepy to happen so the characters would do something. 

Once we got past the half-way mark, things moved quickly and I couldn't put the book down. It was a fun, entertaining and I couldn't put it down. 

Plus, this book had disability rep, queer rep, found family and two romances at its heart. 

So, this was a book of two halves: slow first half but an entertaining second half. I would be intrigued to see what happens next to these characters if a sequel is on the cards...