That cover!

I am torn. I kind of feel the same way about Graveyard Shift as I do about season of 8 Game of Thrones: where is the rest of the story? Yes, it's a novella, but I wanted just a little bit more from this. Please give me all the fungi-horror. This book feels like a combination of What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher (that's the fungus one, right?), with the true crime investigation vibes of Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, and the signature dark academia vibes that M.L. Rio does well. 

I originally DNFed Rio's If We Were Villains and then picked it up again and loved it, so I have been awaiting Rio’s next release, and I guess I did enjoy this but I think it has fallen a bit short for me, purely because of the novella format. That said, I have seen a lot of negative reviews and went in with low expectations, and ultimately I was left wanting to read a full length novella about this. 

Rio is great at creating characters and the dynamics between these characters made me miss If We Were Villains, even if this group did give me Scooby Gang vibes at times. While I didn't feel the typical Rio atmosphere right from the start, it did kick in and I live in hope that an expansion of this story appears in the future. 

I keep picking up fungus horror and hoping that's the one that hits, and to be honest, this one came the closest.