not to be a downer here but if my ex-addict baby sitter started raving about a ghost possessing my child i would fire her on the spot for relapsing. why in the fresh hell are they being so lenient with her? ah. cause the dad wants to screw the babysitter. riiiight. got it.
the 'chemistry' between quinn and her love interest (who i've already forgotten the name of. adrian???) is akin to 1-ply toilet paper, soggy and bland. what is this. why is he described to have the hot body of a man but the face of a kid. just no.
the characterization is also godawful. mc is truly a mary sue. addiction aside (which doesn't really seem to affect her in ways that matter to the plot, really):
she doesn't question her conviction that whatever strange going on in the house is in fact related to a ghost, even though she believes she's hallucinated things before due to her addiction.
she isn't afraid of anya?? like okay, anyone in their right mind would be afraid but the way the author writes her emotions is just. the blandest. like the child gets posessed in front of her and all she does is tell him to snap out of it. like seriously rekulak you couldn't have made her a bit more emotional?????
the child immediately takes a liking to her upon the first interview for the post, hugging her, giving her drawings, which is like. not believeable if you've been interviewing a bajillion baby sitter candiates
the mom gives her designer?? clothing that she says she was going to throw away or donate. like this is just a lazy way to put her in bomb ass clothing, and probably justifies the author's compulsion to describe every outfit she wears in each new scene.
the side characters. utterly. how do all of them range from unmemorable to downright repulsive???:
the kid. just like. literally the blandest kid to exist. all i know about him halfway through the book is that he complains about eating fried tofu (courtesy of his vegan parents) and doing chores. idk.
the mom. she's likeable but bland like the tofu she eats. best thing she's done is to snap at quinn after she forgot to tell her something and quinn cries. of course they apologize simultaneously and hug each other afterward, god forbid an employer get snappy with their employee when they do something wrong.
the dad. fucking creepy. probably named after ted bundy. also weird for naming his kid the same name. okay, biased points aside lmao, there is literally no good fucking reason to have him lust after mc?? except ah, the mc is a mary sue. so i guess every man in a ten mile radius is just frothing at the mouth? uhh
the ghost. literally never thought i'd ever say shit like this but wow. i have never been more unafraid of a ghost in my life. all she did in her short career was possess a kid to draw a little. like damn. she's just bored i guess.
plot: what is happening????? uhhhh. god fucking knows.