This book is a love story of three women in the present, and a two more couples around the year 1900.

Unfortunately, this book is marketed as a "horror comedy", and I found it neither scary nor funny.

The "gothic" elements - eerie happenings, unexplained events - are extremely rare.
The humor was lost on me - some parts are mildly funny at most.

Mainly, this is the story of women falling in love with each other (or not). This did not grab me, unfortunately: The characters remained somewhat colorless to me.

The part of the plot set around 1900 was the most interesting to me. Unfortunately, the reason for the curse of the haunted boarding school is explained in the penultimate chapter in the most sudden, "deus ex machina" fashion, which disappointed me.

The part of the plot set today, about the making of a movie about the events from 1902, is dissolved in the final chapter of the book in a most conventional fashion, which was the bland icing on the dry cake for me.

You may enjoy this book if you
- are really interested in how Hollywood movies are made
- enjoy love stories no matter what, but do not like scary books
- want to read a book about a movie based on a book about a book ("metafiction")
- have personal ties to Rhode Island, where most of the book is set
- have heard of [a:Mary MacLane|262465|Mary MacLane|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1277326747p2/262465.jpg], and are interested in exploring her legacy

P.S.: A final aspect that irked me was the half-hearted inclusion of a non-binary character. I love that such a character is there - however, they appear once in a short, meaningless scene. I think there would have been better ways to include this aspect of queerness, of which there is plenty in the book anyway.

P.P.S.: This book contains a lot of footnotes - mostly quirky, sometimes funny, never necessary to understand the plot. I read this as an ebook and it was a pain to change between the actual text and the footnotes in the back — consider this when choosing an edition.