Raising the Horseman

By: Serena Valentino

Narrated by: Natasha Soudek

From the New York Times best-selling author of Disney's Villains series comes a ghostly new stand-alone novel that reimagines The Legend of Sleepy Hollow through the eyes of a modern teen. The two-hundredth anniversary of the Headless Horseman's legendary haunting of Sleepy Hollow is approaching, but Kat van Tassel wants nothing to do with the town's superstitious celebrations. As a descendant of the original Katrina van Tassel, Kat knows she's expected to fulfill her ancestor's legacy by someday marrying her longtime boyfriend and running the prestigious family estate. But Kat dreams of a life outside Sleepy Hollow. Then Kat meets Isadora, a new girl in town who challenges Kat to reexamine those expectations, opens her eyes to the possibility that ghosts are real, and makes her question who she truly wants to be . . . and be with. When Kat is given the original Katrina's diary, a new legend begins to take shape, one that weaves together the past and the present in eerie ways. Can Kat uncover a two-hundred-year-old secret, and trace its shocking reverberations in her own life, in time to protect what she truly loves? Fans of Serena Valentino will delight in this supernatural coming-of-age tale that finally gives the women of Sleepy Hollow a chance to tell their side of the story.

extremely boring

even sped up the narrator sounds like she's dragging out the story and bored out of her mind. the story itself is really uninteresting and focuses on teenagers with the most uninteresting will they won't they dynamic.
I hoped it would get better if I stuck with it but it doesn't.
I loved the authors other works but this is completely different.
a homosexual love interest is not enough to make a story edgy or interesting but that is all this plot hangs on. it's not even a rare find in YA literature anymore but it feels like the author thought that alone would be enough to keep readers interested.