I mostly enjoyed this graphic novel, but there were several elements I didn't. The dialogue is so bad! It's like how bad some of the dialogue was in Life is Strange dialed up to a 10. These characters are meant to be teenagers in high school, yet they don't talk like any teenager I've ever heard speak. The mystery of the case was sort of interesting. I liked how it has a deep connection to what I assume with be the series' overarching plot. The plot of this volume was a bit unevenly paced. The reveal of the "true killer" in the end was honestly ridiculous. It wasn't even scary, it just made me go "THAT'S the killer? What the everloving f/ck". It was honestly a face-palm moment for me. The art style is okay, but it does the thing a lot of American-style comics do. Where I can't tell if the characters are meant to be teenagers or not, because they're drawn like they're in their late twenties.

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Also I REALLY didn't like the fact that the new girl isn't a fellow teenager, but actually a 20-something-year-old woman. I normally wouldn't care, but seeing as it's established that she's dating another girl in the group, who is very much a teenager and who wasn't aware she's a 20-year-old. Why on earth would you make this plot choice? You could have made it so she dropped out of school for a while at 16 and came back at 17/18 to be the same age as the rest of the cast, but keep her backstory.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!