You know the feeling when you just want to watch trashy tv? Whether it's a horror movie with no real plot line, a teen vamp movie, or Judge Judy. That is kinda how I view this book.

"The figure jumped, startled by the volume of her terror, and dropped something. A knife thudded onto the carpet between them."

My biggest issue with this book was the inconsistent pacing. Like when you watch a horror movie JUST for the gore and jump scares but still have to sit through 'storyline' scenes.

The first chapter was really engaging and I was amped. And then I had to sit through like another four chapters before much else happened. And this continues throughout THE ENTIRE BOOK. This is a horror story so I was expecting everything to be fast-paced. Instead, was sorely disappointed and had to push through some parts.

The in-between action scenes were very blase. The MC romance with is meh. There are the side characters that pop in and out, but I didn't really engage or relate with any of them.

I picked up the book hoping that it was gonna be a riveting cheap thrill. But I just have the feeling that the book was trying too hard to be a well-developed YA contemporary. Which honestly just didn't fit and bored me to no end.

"Someday, their story would be a chapter in one of those sleazy, mass-market, true-crime paperbacks that were shelved in the cobwebbed corners of used bookstores - the types of paperbacks that boasted about the number of crime-scene photographs inside."

I did not appreciate the random throw-in of self-diagnosed mental health of a side character. This was stupid and unnecessary. It added nothing to the story. Even worse, was the mum "...who'd spent her early years working in psychiatric units, she was always diagnosing everyone." Just no. Your mum obviously knew nothing about mental health or the clients she worked for. No no no.

I didn't like the big twist at the end. It was anti-climatic and not relevant to the story AT ALL. It felt incredibly unpolished. Like a throw-in because it 'has' to be there.

Also the ending is SUPER cheesy. Okay, maybe it was to be expected but puleaze.

"Everywhere. They were everywhere.
Those who had left them and those who had been left behind."

Overall, there was something I enjoyed, however. Sometimes I want trashy thrill entertainment. And this book was plenty entertaining, gory, and thrilling. Not scary though. Which honestly is a bummer.




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