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At this stage I am going to take a break from this book. While the writing is very good and the story is engaging, as a current first year PhD student, this story is not providing a cathartic or escapist experience that I need right now. Hopefully this can be a fun summer read!

Perfect book to read as a new graduate student. Feels like satire that hits close to home. I suppose I should be reading for escapism but maybe a book about going through hell to save your academic career will be cathartic in some twisted way…

Admitedly at this point I am having a really hard time continuing with this one. Kingfisher's prior works entertained me in the past, but this book really annoys me. I want to feel the building suspense of a presumed ghost grandmother haunting, but at every turn the POV character brings out some "LOL XD so random" tumblr post tier quip about bugs or being socially awkward. The prose is also just so repetitive.