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This is another book I requested off of NetGalley years ago and found in the library so decided to finally started reading it. It was really good so I wished it was of the NetGalley unread books I had brought (there's a large collection of them).

This is a really good horror book, with horrifying outcome. It has a lot of Horror Tropes, Boarding School, insane asylum, magic, ghost demon things. The Main character Kaitlyn has mental illness issues but it some what a question what is mental illness and what is magic.

There's is a made-up Scottish Magic in this book which I enjoyed. It was really well thought out so much so I started wonder if this was real thing that I had somehow had not heard about it. It's not a real, just really well done.

The characters are all quite likeable and started to feel panicky about the character's outcome, which is great considering the amount of horrors that don't even try to have likeable or realistic characters. There is an odd romantic relationship and its up to question.

This book is told in "discovered" documents, mainly Kaitlyn's diary. It really works for the mystery thriller side of it.

Overall, I gave this book 4/5 stars for . I really enjoyed this book and I am going to autobuy Dawn Kurtagich. I would recommend this to any horror buffs out there.

Great characters, brilliantly written. Will happily look for author again

A debut book which has blurbs from both R.L.Stine and Christopher Pike is pretty impressive to me being a 90's horror lover so I went into this with very high hopes. For the first half I was really gripped but I wasn't keen on the path it took towards the end and I also felt it started to drag.
I did enjoy the way it was written though through diary entries and transcripts and I am keen to read the author's work in the future.

The dead house by Dawn Kufagich.
Twenty-five years ago, Elmbridge High School burned down. The blaze killed three and injured twenty, and one pupil, Carly Johnson, disappeared. For two decades, little was revealed about what became known as the Johnson Incident.
Until now.
A diary has been found in the ruins of the school. In this diary, Kaitlyn Johnson, Carly's twin, tells of the strange and disturbing sequence of events leading to the incident.
But Kaitlyn doesn't exist. She never has.
Absolutely fantastic read with brilliant characters. Wasn't sure thought Kaitlyn was real. Really had me thinking. Loved the ending. 5*. Highly recommended. I voluntarily reviewed an advanced copy of this book from netgalley.

I originally picked this to be finished during the Halloween period, and I have to say, this was a pretty good choice for that time of the year. Spooky was exactly what I wanted. I'd heard a lot about Kurtagich's books too and figured that this was a gem just waiting to be discovered. Though I did enjoy aspects of this book, there were some areas that ended up just plain disappointing me, which is a real shame because I went into it so excited and with high expectations.

The premise itself was a good one. I've never ever read a book about Dissociative Identity Disorder and Kurtagich began really well. She established two separate personalities, wrote mostly from the viewpoint of the personality considered the 'alter' (i.e. the one that the psychologists would quite like to see gone), Kaitlyn. We know immediately that there's something strange about Carly's particular case and while Medical experts label it as Mental Illness, Carly's best friend labels it as something paranormal. Kurtagich was clever in her handling of the first half and building Kaitlyn's personality: her loneliness, her vulnerability and her hatred of being labelled as a 'symptom'. There's real suspense to be found here too because, as the plot develops, there is a countdown of days until 'the incident' and documentation such as newspaper articles, police interviews and video tapes provide a small insight into exactly what this could be.

My attention and patience waned as the story went on. For me, there were just far too many plot devices and once the supernatural got involved, Kurtagich couldn't seem to decide what to focus on. The magic, the demons, the ghosts, the therapy, the love interests, the sister sub-plot, the parents, the house, the mirrors, the girl, the Viking, 'Dee', etc. It all got too much! Due to the nature of the story-telling, the plot jumped around in time and never really filled in the gaps. I saw the end twist coming if I'm honest and didn't really understand the motives behind that fully either. Whatsmore, the climax wasn't much of one at all and to be honest I didn't feel like I received a solid answer as to what had actually happened and how the plot elements were tied together. A great start and fantastic idea, but the lacklustre ending made it a likeable read at best for me.