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dark funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

This was short, snappy, and entertaining. If you’re looking for a quick horror read with a fun and slightly nostalgic edge, try this out. Looking forward to more in the series!

Energy: Animated. Amusing. Creative.

🐩 Tail Wags: That it’s a fun, quirky horror without grief-riddled backstories or personal tragedies. The pacing. Cinematic writing style. The character perspectives were distinct and easy to follow.

Scene: 🇺🇸 Set in Courtland County (I think in New York state).

Perspectives: We follow multiple perspectives including a line cook fresh out of high school, the owner/manager of the diner, some of the customers, a special law enforcement agent, and a non-human, after a snowstorm strands seven strangers at a highway pit stop diner.

Timeline: Current (2010s? I’m guessing it takes place before Uber was a thing)

🔥 Fuel: How did each person get to the diner? What was that huge crash? Is there an imposter among them? If so, will they evade capture or be caught?

📖 Cred: Supernatural realism

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Sleet. Christmas lights. Beehive hairstyle. Blistering air. NASA. Illusory gambit. Unexplained lights and sounds. Communication device. Knee high snow.

They walk among us
Finding the imposter
Alien creature feature
Secret government agencies
Moments of memory loss
Cinematic, atmospheric settings
Snowbound isolation
Locked room murder mysteries
Race against time to solve-the-mystery
Twilight Zone-esque perspective shifts in the morally grey
Body jumping
Men in Black meets The X-Files meets Goosebumps
Third person, narrator giving us background and letting us in on character thoughts

Content Heads-Up: Nicotine (cigarette, brief). Vaping (brief). Blood. Murder.

Rep: American. Cis. Hetero. Ambiguous skin tones.

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Tasting History: Explore the Past through 4,000 Years of Recipes by Max Miller

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5.0

Other People's Clothes by Calla Henkel

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adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved how this was unsettling in that watching-things-slowly-unravel-way. I’d recommend if you like slow, character-driven drama with a dash of intriguing mystery and unhinged obsession.

Energy: Compulsive. Sardonic. Egotistical.

🐕 Howls. Some transitions are clunky where it’s unclear where a character is or when they got there.

🐩 Tail Wags. The toxic dynamic between roommates. How one character is gradually discovering more about herself while the unravels as things don’t go the way she expected. The mundane, day-to-day moments and watching character interactions evolve over time. The creepy apartment owner/author. Balance of obsession, unhinged behaviour, and cringe-worthy moments.

Scene: 🇩🇪 Set in various boroughs of Berlin, Germany

Perspective: An art student who tends to fixate on others decides to leave it all behind and go to Berlin on an exchange after the loss of a best friend, a relationship breakdown, and feeling left out of their peer group.

Timeline: 2008. Winter to Spring.

🔥 Fuel: What happened to Zoe’s best friend? How will the apartment roommate situation work in Germany between her and the student she is traveling with on this art school exchange? How will she fit in and evolve while in Berlin?

📖 Cred: Realistic

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Dentyne Ice. Coal heater. Black dyed clothes. Skeletal trees. Law & Order SVU. Amanda Knox. Wet snow. Second-cheapest prosecco. Door buzzer.

First-person learning about characters, getting context on how they got here, how they feel about things
Early 2000s nostalgia and pop culture
Second-hand social cringe
Toxic roommate and new adult drama
Long chapters with contextual tangents
Vibey day-in-the-life/slice of life exchange student life
Psychological literary suspense with a heaping side of desperation, complicated friendships, ennui, and fitting in fixations
Modern party life tragedy
Decisions snowballing into chaos
Authors behaving badly
Montage of monotony, banality, nostalgia, narcissism, and paranoia

Content Heads-Up:

Alcohol (intoxication, hang overs, parties). Death (discovery of). Drug use (ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine). Eating disorder (on page; bulimia). False accusation. Homophobia (community, workplace; brief recall). Infidelity. Institutionalization (psychiatric). Intoxicated driving (brief mention). Loneliness, desperation. Loss of best friend, grief. Murder. Narcissism. Paranoia. Parental abandonment (as baby). Sexual content (consenting; on page; hook ups, clubs). Sexual harassment (unwanted advances). Suicidal ideation (very brief). Toxic friendship. Victim blaming (media, law enforcement). Vomit.

Rep: American. German. Second generation Iranian. Austrian. Cuban American. Cis. Hetero. Queer, questioning. Lesbian. Gay. Freckled, dark, sunburnt, and fair skin tones.

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Sugar by Mia Ballard

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dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved this. If you’re into dark, obsessive reads featuring morally grey characters with thoughtful, empathetic moments sprinkled in, this could be a hit.

Energy: Repulsive. Captivating. Idiosyncratic.

🐩 Tail Wags. The main character was oddly likable because she’s humanized at key moments. The steamy scenes added to the story rather than distracting from it. The twist was surprising and campy but worked well because the story already had those undertones. The character study was show-not-tell, and didn’t feel repetitive or preachy.

Scene: 🇺🇸 Set in Orange County, California.

Perspective: A mortgage secretary with a crush on a coworker. After suspecting their spouse of cheating, they decide it’s time to do something about it. We also get a brief perspective from a friend.

Timeline: Late 1950s. Early 1960s. 1970s. Early 1980s.

🔥 Fuel: Will our main character get caught? What will she do about her unrequited crush? Will her plan work? How far is she willing to go to get what she wants? What happened to make her like this?

📖 Cred: Campy realism

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Cake. Expensive cologne. Sugary wine. Hair. Incense. Autumn air. Drive-in.

Good for her revenge moments
Looking-for-love-in-all-the-wrong-places spice
Narratives where readers are the sympathetic listener, almost like the MC is writing her story to us
Homicidal, obsessive, unrequited love
Love spells, witchy magical realism
Awkwardness and second-hand cringe
Female predator study
“A banquet of self-pity and gluttony"
Flip the script endings
How far would you go for romantic love?

Content Heads-Up:

Adult/minor relationship (abuse, rape, grooming). Body horror, mutilation. Dementia (parent; brief). Drug use (recreational, microdosing; LSD, acid). Drugging, poisoning. Forced institutionalization (legal, psychiatric). Infidelity, betrayal (discovery of). Misandry. Murder, violence, blood (on page). Overdose (brief mention). Self-medicating (food, alcohol). Sexual assault (unwanted advances, bullying). Sexual content (on page; consenting, group, hook ups, desire). Stalking, obsession. Suicidal thoughts, feelings.

Rep: American. Mixed race [Indigenous (American)-Black; Indigenous (American)-Mexican]. Hispanic. Cis. Hetero. Queer. Gay peripheral character. Tan, glassy, black, golden, and ambiguous skin tones.

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Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio

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dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

This was a spooky, character-driven story with a sharp critique of scientific academia…but it unapologetically cuts off mid-story. I’d rather have an ending that’s sudden than one that drags, but this was like, abrupt - even for me. If you enjoy eerie atmospheres, solid group dynamics, and don’t mind an unresolved finish, this one could be worth picking up.

Energy: Engaging. Biting. Convivial.

🐕 Howls. The ending is abrupt and leaves the characters' fates hanging.

🐩 Tail Wags. Pulled into the eerie world right away. How it drops the reader into the middle of things, letting us infer as we go. The plot moves steadily, the characters are likeable and work well together. The accurate depictions of academia, particularly the darker side of scientific research and institutional politics.

Scene: 🌎 Set in a campus town.

Perspectives (5): An editor-in-chief at an award-winning but struggling student paper. A talented but impoverished former microbiology student. A bartender and general manager of the university pub. A library sciences graduate struggling to find work splitting time between the health-sci library and a hotel front desk. A car repair technician who has become fully nocturnal.

Timeline: Current (2020s). Midnight through to morning in October.

🔥 Fuel: Who is digging large holes in the abandoned cemetery? Who is the person they see sneaking around in the shadows? How will the characters fare with their various personal troubles?

📖 Cred: Plausible

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Cigarette smoke. Shovel hitting dirt. Breeze through fallen leaves. Alkaloids. Fungal infestation. Me-search. Occam’s razor. Rats.

Ghost in the room, tagging along with different characters
Books to read when you can’t sleep
Gothic-ish abandoned on-hallowed-grounds feel
Hint of fungal horrors
Toxic academia
Biomedical sci-fi drama
Scientists behaving badly
Student investigators
Unlikely friendships and misfits

Content Heads-Up: Nicotine (cigarettes). Cancer (lump, anxiety). Poverty, unhoused (character situation). Animal death (rats). Melancholy, depression. Insomnia, night terrors. Hallucination (sleep deprivation). Animal attack (rat). Medical trauma (drug testing). Corruption (academic, scientific).

Rep: Greek ancestry. Cis. Hetero. Lesbian. Ambiguous skin tones.

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The Lake of Lost Girls by Katherine Greene

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

This felt like a YA mystery at heart, even though the main character is 30. The tone, pacing, and introspection reminded me more of young adult literature. I liked it but I think I’d only recommend this for readers of YA, mystery enthusiasts, or those who like multimedia in narratives.

Energy: Reserved. Nimble. Melancholic.

🐺 Growls.

I listened to parts of the audiobook. While italics worked for flashbacks in print, the audio transitions weren’t as clear. Without the visual cues, it got confusing, especially since flashbacks often shared settings and characters with the present-day narrative.

🐕 Howls.

The tone and writing had me picturing the protagonist as a teen or recent graduate, but I can see an argument for her being less mature because of what happened in her life, it was just maybe too effective when combined with the writing style!

🐩 Tail Wags.

Having media posts, formatted and with pictures, integrated into the narrative. The guilty-pleasure-skirting-problematic-but-so-entertaining podcast banter. The plot with big reveals early on and smaller mysteries and twists sprinkled throughout, some of which genuinely surprised me. The pacing was good. The repetitive musings of the main characters felt natural given their age and struggles, instead of coming across as filler. Using withholding effectively to build suspense – just enough was kept back to keep me interested without feeling manipulative. How the conclusion delivered all the tea without resorting to cheap thriller tropes.

Scene: 🇺🇸 Set in Mt. Randall, North Carolina, USA

Perspectives: We mainly follow two siblings across time: a 30-year-old who never moved out, preferring to be close to their family after their sibling disappeared in the late 1990s and was never found. And the sibling as a local college student in the 1990s. We also get partner and parent perspectives as needed. There are snippets of podcast transcripts, flyers, articles, and social media posts.

Timeline: Current (2022). 1998 to 1999 (September to April).

🔥 Fuel: What happened to the missing sister? Can Lindsey trust the journalist who wants to cover the discovery of bones nearby? Who killed the four women? Is it related to the sister’s case?

📖 Cred: Like a ripped from the headlines, truth-is-stranger-than-fiction type story.

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Boss 429 Mustang. Dining hall. Keg stand. Textbooks. Lake side. Jasmine perfume. Vinegar. Peppermint.

First person experiencing everything through the main characters, getting flashbacks.
True crime podcast and media
How true crime content affects victims’ families
Missing or murdered college student mysteries
Can-she-trust-him romance
Start at the end alternating timelines
Academia realism and drama
Family in turmoil
Men behaving badly
Hot-and-cold young adult romance
Female rage
Misguided vengeance
Morally grey and complex characters
Exploring adult/minor relationships exploiting the insecurities of younger women, toxic relationships, family secrets, father-daughter bonds

Content Heads-Up: Predatory relationships (power dynamic, teacher-student, adult-teen). Loss of sibling. Alcohol (intoxication, partying). Infidelity, serial cheating. Emotional incest (parent-child). Toxic relationship. Emotionally immature parent. Police ineptitude. Nicotine (cigarettes). Driving while intoxicated (brief memory). Murder (on page).

Rep: American. Cis. Hetero. Ambiguous skin tones.

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I Need You to Read This by Jessa Maxwell

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

This started off great – suspenseful, with awesome NYC vibes and an interesting main character. But then it suddenly turned into a high-stakes thriller using the character’s past and a rushed, predictable ending. I wish it had stayed more grounded instead of trying too hard to be 'twisty.'

Energy: Secretive. Apprehensive. Impetuous.

🐺 Growls. Characters suddenly went out of character and the villains got cartoonish. The high stakes scenario and “nick-of-time” rescues felt like a cliched showdown with too many convenient events.

🐕 Howls. The dialogue read stilted in text but not audio. The main character started cautious and alert but then made choices that didn't fit her personality, ignoring threats and rushing into danger. The shift from cozy suspense to high-stakes popcorn thriller was jarring.

🐩 Tail Wags. Immersive worldbuilding, easy to imagine the settings. I preferred audio over text. The audiobook was good for multitasking and well-paced, so it was easy to stay in the story. The initial mystery, the slow reveal of hints, and the subtle, cozy suspense. How the tension built slowly.

Scene: 🇺🇸 Set in Manhattan, NYC.

Perspective: A copywriter who applies for the job of a deceased advice columnist on a whim and finds she has a talent for it. An unknown person writing to the advice columnist, so we see their life situation evolve over time.

Timeline: Current (2010s or 2020s). Summer.

🔥 Fuel: Who was writing the letters to Constance about their life? Who is sending the threatening letters now that Alex has the job? Are they threats meant for her or clues to what happened to her predecessor? What is Alex’s big secret from the past that has her having to lay low?

📖 Cred: Over-the-top

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Art deco. Mailroom. Corner office. Coffee. Diner breakfast. Humidity. Pigeons. Whiskey.

Narrator with a secret past, laying low
NYC energy
Snippets from confessional letters
Day-in-the-life of an advice columnist
Immersive atmosphere, detailed paint-a-picture worldbuilding
New job jitters
Walking into traps
Villainous scheming
Quirky friend groups

Content Heads-Up: Murder. Controlling, toxic relationship. Narcissistic, abusive relationship. Parental disinterest (for adult child). Alcohol (casual, bars). Kidnapping. Gun violence.

Rep: American. Cis. Hetero. Gay. Ambiguous skin tones.

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Don't Eat the Pie by Monique Asher

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dark mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.5

Don’t eat the pie? More like don’t read this book. Just kidding! But seriously, this missed the mark on so many levels for me. It failed on atmosphere, horror, or even basic storytelling. The premise was interesting, and it had potential for some eerie small-town vibes, but the execution was disjointed, juvenile, and clunky. It felt more like an outline than a cohesive story. It seemed like the author just spun a wheel of tropes and included each one for a chapter or two before moving on.

Energy: Inattentive. Immature. Oblivious.

🐺 Growls The plot was all over the place with too many events dropped in—baking processes, toxic family drama, paranormal shit, pregnancy scares, tragedy, walking around places—all without focus. Any spooky elements were diluted by cheesy melodrama but the kind where everyone is like “OMG!” followed by “hmm, oh well”. The present-tense narration didn’t add urgency, it felt monotone and overdramatic. This disconnected pretty hard every time the perspective switched—swinging from YA friendships and crushes to awkward descriptions of the mother having sex and craving the stepdad’s dick (I think I kept forgetting it isn’t actually a YA so it was jarring!).

🐕 Howls The writing style was too simplistic and spoon-fed. The characters felt like caricatures and their dialogue and inner thoughts didn’t match their supposed ages (both the mom and daughter sounded much younger than they were written to be). It didn’t help that the audiobook narrator made the mom sound weird – like croaky but high-pitched older voice? Too many tedious dream sequences used for heavy-handed symbolism. The “spice” scenes were dry, clinical, and random.

Scene: 🇺🇸 An island in North Carolina, USA

Perspective: A parent of a teenage daughter who is marrying their partner and meeting the family. The 16-year-old child of the parent who is meeting their new (and rich) stepfamily for the first time.

Timeline: 2010s or 2020s. ☀️ Spring/Summer

🔥 Fuel: What happened to the neighbour? What’s with the sexism and obsession with reproduction on this island? Are they safe? Are they being used? Who can they trust?

📖 Cred: Over-the-top suspended disbelief

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Seagulls caw. Crickets. Beachy blooms. Guesthouse. Bulges. Hospital waiting rooms.

Simplistic YA style writing
Newlyweds romance
New stepparent
Creepy neighbours and creepy things Gramma’s say
Chilling with the cousins and bestie summer coming-of-age
Dream sequences
Deadbeat parent drama
Mom probs
Rich people behaving strangely
Horror-lite, but horrific things happen
Dark Lifetime B-movie vibe
Pregnancy tropes
Keep it in the family witchy-ness

Content Heads-Up: Sexual content (consenting, off page; marriage). Sexism, forced gender roles (character opinions). Loss of parent. Loss of sibling. Parental abandonment (as child; trying to reconnect as teen). Pregnancy complications. Pregnancy (

unwanted

, experience, body feelings; descriptive, on page). Loss of child. Vomit. Car crash (on page, life threatening). Hospitalization (on page experience; incubation, injuries). Death of loved ones. Matriarchy. Body fluids. Blood.

Rep: American. Cis. Hetero. Snow white and ambiguous skin tones.

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Lucy Undying by Kiersten White

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

I read Dracula ages ago, but I remember getting lost in it, and that's what happened here. Loved the immersive vibe, vampire lore, characters, seamless world-building, and the bio-sci-fi angles. The pacing and humor were great, and even though the ending dragged, I'm glad I read it. 😍

Energy: Resilient. Playful. Wry.

🐕 Howls The ending felt both dragged and rushed. It's long, and some parts felt unnecessary (mostly after the 70% mark). The vampires' aversion to tech felt forced (I know it's picky, but why adapt to other changes and not tech?).

🐩 Tail Wags Loved the bio-sci-fi vampirism and how vampire tropes were woven into the story. Iris's sarcastic humor. Enjoyed all perspectives without feeling pulled away from the 'good' one. The pacing (mostly) and 'Just one more chapter' feeling. Natural world-building. It left space for me to connect the dots and reminded me of the original Dracula without info-dumping. Historical but with a casual modern style (if you're a stickler for historical accuracy, this might be a flaw). Great chemistry between the main characters. Exploring lives across different eras.

Scene: 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇹🇷 🇳🇬 London and Whitby, England; Boston and Salt Lake City, USA; Liaoning China; Istanbul Turkey; Lagos Nigeria.

Perspectives (4): Dracula. A character turned into a vampire by Dracula while trying to protect their love-that-could-never-be through the decades, with journal entries from before they met Dracula in the 1800s. A character who just inherited the family wellness MLM but wants nothing to do with it. A character who joined the wellness MLM and works as a security guard there.

Timeline: Sept 2024-Oct 2025. 1890s leading up to 2024.

🔥 Fuel: Will Iris escape the family business? What's with that MLM? What's Lucy's backstory? How does her life turn out? Will Iris's crush turn into something more? Will the romance fizzle out or are they fated to be together?

📖 Cred: Supernatural realism

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Wood panel. Look right. Mausoleum. Thirst. Moonlight.

Tagging along with the characters, almost like they’re talking to us
Atmospheric, immersive world-building
Biosci-fi vampirism
Historical fiction immortals saga
Autobiography of a vampire
Journal entries and transcripts
Character-driven dramedy
Present meets Past
Sapphic soulmate romantic suspense
Fleeing the family cult
Whisps of multi-level marketing schemes
Casual, modern, intimate writing style
Sprinkling of dark fantasy vibes
Slow-burn character drive starts, switching to faster paced romantasy-style quests and high-stakes escape endings
How far would you go for love?

Content Heads-Up: Dementia, hallucinations (brief; parent). Abusive, controlling, distant parent. Culty organization (bigoted, homophobic, racist). Sexual content (behind closed doors). Unrequited love, betrayal. Murder. Blood. Body horror, gore (brief, on page). Sleep paralysis. Sexual harassment, assault (unwanted advances). War (WWI; brief on page; battlefields, hospitals). Involuntary hospitalization (off page recall). Stalking, violence against women. Homophobia (historical; closeted, forced into heterosexual engagement).

Rep: American. British. Cis. Hetero. Lesbian. Gay. Pan. Pale white, cream-coloured, warm brown, rich dark brown, rich black, and honey skin tones. Autoimmune condition (kind of like cold agglutinin disease).

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When Mimi Went Missing by Suja Sukumar

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dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.5

This had a promising premise but was poorly executed. It was bogged down by endless rehashing, stiff dialogue, clunky plot devices, and flat characters. It desperately needed editing to help with the flow and trim down the repetitive narration to keep the plot moving.

Energy: Lost. Grieving. Melancholic.

🐺 Growls All the friendships lacked warmth or authenticity – Krista read more like a friendly on-call AI robot than a friend. The narrative kept circling back to repeat background details we already knew, sometimes word for word (I even double-checked a few times to see if I had accidentally flipped backwards). The musing were overly repetitive (like, ‘Did I do something? No, I couldn’t have. But did I? No, it’s impossible. But did I?”). Painfully slow pacing. Motivations were clumsily delivered by villain monologue right in the middle of an escape attempt, where everyone inexplicably paused to listen instead of running for their lives 😂.

🐕 Howls The characters felt like stiff caricatures. All the teenagers were rigid and spoke so formally even with each other. The story relied too heavily on contrived plot devices. The characters withheld vital information for absurd reasons, making the plot feel artificially dragged out. Even during high-stakes scenes, the tension was lost because we kept pausing for the repetitive musings and reflections of the main character. The villain was cartoony and predictable (that one may just be because I’m an adult).

🐩 Tail Wags When things finally started happening in the later parts of the book, it was slightly better. Letters and journals provided some intrigue.

Scene: 🇺🇸 Set in Orin, Michigan, USA

Perspective: Our main character got bullied a lot growing up because of a family tragedy. Their cousin, who they lived with and were super close to, always had their back and felt more like a sibling. But things changed when the cousin got into the popular clique at high school and started joining in on the bullying. After sneaking out to a party, the cousin goes missing.

Timeline: Current (2020s). Late summer/early Fall.

🔥 Fuel: Why is the main character’s cousin suddenly ghosting her and cutting her out of her life? What happened at the party? Is her cousin alive or did something terrible happen to her? Why did the main character wake up with dirty clothes the night her cousin went missing? Can we trust our her take on things?

📖 Cred: Suspended disbelief realism

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Acrid scent. Shadowy wisps. Bruises. Musty earth. Beach. Black candles.

Family tragedy
YA amateur sleuthing
Potential unreliable/untrustworthy narrator
Missing cousin mystery
Friends taking different path betrayal
Mean girls popularity contest
Missing memories
Eavesdropping on mc thoughts
Dense reflection and inner monologue
Heavily withholding and over-hinting

Content Heads-Up: Bullying (high school; non-consenting recordings, peer rejection, purposeful triggering). Loss of parent (as child). Murder-suicide (off page). Betrayal (secrets, bullying). Panic attacks. PTSD. Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Drug use (cocaine, marijuana). Dismissive, disbelieving authorities (police). Pandemic (very brief mention). Gun violence. Physical attack. Murder. Grief. Miscarriage (off page recall; after-effects, psychosis). Healing cons/fraud.

Rep: American. Indian-American. Mixed race (Indian-White). Cis. Deep brown, light brown, black, and pale skin tones.

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