Top critical review
2.0 out of 5 starsCool concept weighed down by boring tropes
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2019
Who doesn't like a good ghost story. How about if the prospective is the ghost. Considering what ghosts are can greatly impact how that prospective should work. Are ghosts just people? Personally a ghost being a regular person whose dead is kind of boring, because then it's just like what's the point of dying if you just continue in the same capacity only without a physical body. That isn't how girl in the well portrays it, but the plot derails the concept.
There is a mystery in this story about a boy and tattoos and other ghosts, but the problem is it feels campy. It is the whole, hint at mystery through small reveals that only drive to motivate continued reading if you care. Mysteries of characters only matter if you care about the characters and by the point the book is trying to lead you on with them you don't. The book does the have characters talk mystseriousy about their mysteries and further hint, but none of the dialogue feels natural and instead it ends up feeling like a tired trope. For me this book would have done better if it didn't feature so heavily a plot and more stuck to a slice of unlife of a ghost girl.
Ultimately this book doesn't quite live up to the premise.
