Diavola was… disappointing

I just finished Diavola, and I think it was a huge let down. After seeing people on Reddit and Goodreads highly recommend this, I was very excited to read. I remember being over halfway through and thinking, “where is the horror”? Imo, this book is about a character with family drama. They could’ve taken all the supernatural elements out and it would’ve been the exact same story. Speaking of supernatural, at no point in the book was I even uneasy. I felt a bit excited when ghosts were introduced, but they explained what it was so quickly, there was no suspense built at all.

They also make Anna out to seem like she’s actually crazy in the last 30ish pages before the final act, suggesting maybe her family is right for not associating with her, before revealing that all of this really is happening and she’s very much sane and her family really is just that awful. But does a sane person do what she did to Josh and barely have a second thought about it? I felt like there was no one in the book I could root for. It was so confusing, with things like the details of what happened to Christopher shoved in at the last second. I feel like I’m being too critical, but I was very excited for this book, and am left feeling very underwhelmed.