This Cursed House by Del Sandeen

 Hello my lovely readers! I've been reading like there's no tomorrow! Let's get into it.

SYNOPSIS
In the fall of 1962, twenty-seven-year-old Jemma Barker is desperate to escape her life in Chicago—and the spirits she has always been able to see. When she receives an unexpected job offer from the Duchon family in New Orleans, she accepts, thinking it is her chance to start over.

But Jemma discovers that the Duchon family isn’t what it seems. Light enough to pass as white, the Black family members look down on brown-skinned Jemma. Their tenuous hold on reality extends to all the members of their eccentric clan, from haughty grandmother Honorine to beautiful yet inscrutable cousin Fosette. And soon the shocking truth comes The Duchons are under a curse. And they think Jemma has the power to break it.

As Jemma wrestles with the gift she’s run from all her life, she unravels deeper and more disturbing secrets about the mysterious Duchons. Secrets that stretch back over a century. Secrets that bind her to their fate if she fails.

MY THOUGHTS
This book was the Black Southern gothic horror novel that I've always wanted.

I'm not too much of a horror reader, maybe a book here every now and then (although I do enjoy horror movies). But I've always wanted to see and read MORE Black horror, MORE Black fantasy, MORE carefree Black girls and boys. This book was perfect to me.

Jemma was annoying at times because I just wanted her to GIVE IN and interact with the spirits she saw. I was so glad when she finally came around. 

Colorism as the "villain" of this book seemed a bit weak at first because of how late they brought in Adam and his storyline with Cortion Duchon. I think if they would've brought up how dearly Cortion valued passing, it would've made colorism a bit stronger for me, but that's just a small nit pick.

This book was equally enjoyable and spooky. I loved it.