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A review by nerdyprettythings
This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham
4.25
This book was so cute but also it’s horror-adjacent. Sort of straddling YA and new adult, it’s the story of 4 recent high school graduates going to a Burning Man-style music festival. Except they turned into zombies/vampires - “Hollow people” - a couple years ago, and they have a freezer full of synthetic human meat. I really enjoyed the MCs and the cutaways to the characters’ histories. There’s also a very cute pining BFF romance with a cis woman MC and her trans woman bestie. One character is a famous influencer and I would have liked to see the book do more with that, it’s mentioned a couple times, but she doesn’t do a lot of like influencer work or worrying that she never posts at all during the festival. At times the treatment of hollow people is a pretty heavy handed metaphor for homophobia. BUT overall, a very fun little spooky summer read.