I probably read this book having false expectations based on the series, which I quite liked because it reimagines trauma as a story of haunting, which has always made a lot of sense to me. And though the original story is quite different, there's a lot of similarites. But I could not translate the book's most troubled character's fears and desires in any meaningful way (if this happened to me, I kept thinking, everything would be very different); or perhaps it's all too obvious to be interesting, like a lenghty exploration of a mystery that has already been solved.