She is a haunting

 

Jade thinks that spending her life in America has rendered her an alien in her own country but when her fathers offers to pay her tuition fee if she stays in Vietnam, she deems the chance too good to lose.

But the deal comes with a condition; spend 4 weeks with her estranged father in the French Colonial house he's been restoring and make a website for the place. Simple enough.

But the house has a plan of its own. Feeding off its residents, controlling its inhabitants, capturing its prey.

The hydrangeas covering the walls and the dead insects in the window sills indicate something but Jade is too naive to listen.

Eerie dreams haunt her and a ghost bride visits her telling her to back away, to not eat anything, to listen to them.

Who is them? What happened at the house? What secrets is it hiding? Will Jade and her family survive this?

"They say all old houses have death in them, but what of houses that begin in death?"

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

This book is overrated. Sure it is nice to see something different, a Story set in Vietnam with a Vietnamese protagonist seems a great idea. But the story has a lot of plot holes and the whole theme is frustratingly vexing.

There are ghosts and one of them is protectting the house and other one is haunting it but she is not alone. Who else is haunting it? The story initially seems like a replica of Mexican Gothic but Mexican gothic was a great read! 

This story is just confusing and even the ending seems unsatisfactory because it is still not clear who was actually haunting the house and which ghosts are possesing who? and why the house is even haunted at all and what does Jade mean when she thinks she is helping the house because as much as I understood the house is evil and I just ended up skimming most of it.

Reading should be fun and automatically understood.  Its should not ask its audience to focus on it as though they are in a calculus class. A horror gothic should not allow its readers to skim over a single line, let alone all of it. So, in my personal opinion, the books is not worth the time.