I started reading some standalone gothics like Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and DragonWyck by Anya Seton

Something about the whole “young girl goes to this estate where everything isn’t as it seems” was really attractive to me. The Netflix show Haunting of Bly Manor also came out around then so I was watching that as well.

I’m typically a fantasy reader so it was a break from the stress and emotional angst that the real world was already going through. Sometimes people are just batshit crazy and i enjoyed trying to figure it out with the MC in those books!