Finally arriving in Mayfair the next morning, he finds refuge at the Lafayette House but doesn't reveal his ordeal. Whether it was the ghosts, the toxic friendships or the sheer wreckage Erin was making of her life, I couldn't look away until I finished. Again, it’s just another unique way of storytelling that I haven’t seen done before in this way which was refreshing.

Ghost Eaters is filled with deeply gorgeous writing that never gets in the way of itself, it only enhances the experience. I was really hoping this would be a scary book, and while it certainly has a lot of supernatural suspense and ghosts going for it, it was more disgusting than scary. Yet, even though I know he did an exceptional job with the tone of the story, it was a noise I didn’t enjoy. So I looked at the Ghost Eater archetype which seems interesting but one issue with it is that there are quite limited opponents to use it against. I was equally as awed on the second reading as on the first, and I've no doubt I'll continue to feel the same way every time I reread it.This is where the book really excelled, but I eventually found myself feeling apathetic to picking it up again. Grief and addiction are strong themes throughout, and it was interesting seeing these things being tackled in a horror novel. Rife with body horror and hallucinations…the narrative sucks readers into its dark, disorienting world.

Maybe I hand out 4/5 stars pretty easily if a book really hooks me and I did read this book really fast.Pros: 2/3 storyline were interesting, jokey jokes (but tbh I'm not sure if it was intentionally funny? The final 25% of any horror novel should be the best and most amazing part since you made it to what should be a climactic ending. Riley David Hambling David Langford Dean Ing Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Rice Burroughs Frederik Pohl French Science Fiction Fritz Leiber Greg Bear Gregory Benford H.