Status Updates From What Walks These Halls

When the author tries to make the main character likable so hard that you end up really disliking him ...

This is going downhill fast. The haunting is not exciting, the writing feels uninspired and I think the characters could have been interesting, especially Archer and Éabha, but there is some disconnect.

For now it's aggressively mid, let's see if the second half is better.

"The figure emanated Otherness."

Why are all these modern gothic novels so literal?! Describe The Other to me, show me *why* the character feels that way, oh my god. You can't just basically say: "This is that popular Gothic trope, by the way" and expect me to feel anything but bored.

Me, a lover of slow paced stories: I wish this would actually speed up a bit

Once again, this would have worked better if the characters were a bit older but it's fun so far.