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The Haunted follows Hendricks and her family who move into a new town. The story is that her family flips houses and that is why they are there, but there is something dark in Hendricks past that motivated the move. When she starts her new school she starts to run with the popular crowd and from them she learns that the new run down house they moved it to has a dark past of it's own. When strange things start to happen to her and her family she gets help from the boy next door who also seems to be hiding something.
I was super excited to read this book because plot of the book sounded amazing and I am always down for a scary tale. And it's billed as a Stephen King for teenagers so how can it not be great? Well great it is not. For a book that had a lot of action going on it sure was boring. All the twists were not all that shocking and you could see most of them coming. I felt like all the characters were one dimensional and were introduced just so they could perish later on. Also the romance in the book felt forced.
In conclusion while this book was a fast read it was a a book that I could have done without reading.