The horror is very real and visceral in this story, but Rumfitt stretches beyond that and includes a lot of very important social commentary on serious subjects, as well as nods to the way people can be haunted by the ghosts of their past. There were times where I felt like I had stepped straight into a fever dream, which I mean in a very positive way! Rumfitt has a brilliant writing quality that just sucks readers in and it didn’t matter if I was confused or creeped out or uncomfortable because I couldn’t stop reading. Tell Me I’m Worthless is probably one of the most unique haunted house stories I have ever read. Together, Alice and Ila must face the horrors that happened there, must pull themselves apart from the inside out, put their differences aside, and try to rescue Hannah, whom the House has chosen to make its own. Memories of that night torment Alice, but when Ila asks her to return to the House, to go past the KEEP OUT sign and over the sick earth where teenagers dare each other to venture, Alice knows she must go. She lives a haunted existence, selling videos of herself for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself to sleep. Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends, Ila and Hannah.
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