I Was A Teenage Ghost Hunter by Brian K. Henry

Luckily, my first October read was a perfect pick for this Spooky season. First Huge Thanks to The Author for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. 

The story is about Devin, a 16-year-old, who holds a unique power of communicating with ghosts. The story begins with Devin having one of his ghostly manifestations in an old walnut tree. He keeps ignoring it until his friends push him to confront it.

There on another side of the town, strange incidents, which can be life-threatening, onsets around an old manor which belonged to Rutherford Rousten. Feeling that Devin's unearthly manifestations and Rousten mansion's strange happenings may be connected, Devin and his friends led to launch a ghost hunting operation.
His friends, Clive and Rex came to be his partners in this operation. Their adventure during this operation covers the rest of the book, as they comprehend Rousten's past, aiming to save their borough.

Now lets talk about its features. 

First of all the book is very realistically written. Horror elements are not exaggerated. Instead, they are believable that you may doubt your own sighting in real life. It is realistic in other ways too that how others make fun of people who deal with such problems as Devin was. They taunt and bully them and don't believe them.

The mindset of Devin is very well captured by the author. The psychology that a person has, is drawn wonderfully and also creepily.
One more thing that I liked about this book is that despite the way it is descriptive, the book is very concise as you expect a horror fiction to be.

Talking about the characters, they are good. Devin is heroic and did some very daring things that you will understand when you will read the book. His "Ghost Hunches" partners Clive and Rex are also great friends. I especially loved that friendly chats between them. It seemed very profound, just how buddies talk.
Other characters too have an important role to play. They are all different, weird and drives the story forward.

The climax is also well written. Of course, I won't give away what happens, but you will certainly enjoy it.
Though the ending of this book was quite unexpected. I was expecting something much more sinister and disturbing. Rather it was very smooth which is also appreciative. In that way you can sleep calmly without any of those nightmares which is quite common after you complete a horror book or a horror movie.

All in all a great read. A spooky one too. A book that you can read with lights out, curling up in your bed. 

Also the second part of this book is out now where the story continues as Devin finds himself in the midst of one more Ghostly Manifestations. You can read its full description on Goodreads here.

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