Another stop on my tour of middle grade horror... 
 I wasn't a fan of this one. To be blunt, the plot was flat, the storytelling was lazy, and the characters were annoying. I particularly hated the ghost. I realize she was supposed to be a brat, but it was done in such a way that if she haunted me, I'd be irritated instead of scared when she showed up in my room at night. 
 The author clearly intended for this to be a grand homage to all the classic Gothics and ghost stories and to hammer this point home, she went out of her way to mention specific literature of the time that her protagonist was reading. I'm supposed to be believe that a twelve-year-old girl is reading Vanity Fair, for example. Riiiiight. It was all a bit much. 
 Still, I'll give it two stars because if I'd read this as a ten-year-old, I might have liked it. I might have found the ghost very scary and even made lists of all the books Hahn mentioned so that I could seek them out later. It's hard to say.