Cheryl Isaac’s <i>Unfinished</i> is an eerie and unsettling horror debut, that will leave you with goosebumps. It moves forward at a breakneck pace, throwing you immediately into a creepy horror story set in a small town, with a dark and mysterious legend around it. It’s a pretty fast read, and quite an immersive one - just creepy enough that I did not like to read it before bed lol. Our protagonist Avery is headstrong and uncertain - and in a teenager, that is quite a combination. This is partially a coming-of-age story, with the regular growing pains of teenage hood, and crushes, and challenging family dynamics, but woven in is a mysterious legend, and an evil presence, that’s hungry, and won’t stop until it’s eaten it’s fill. This book read a LOT like a horror movie - in that it was quite evocative and atmospheric (I could picture so many of the scenes so well), but also in the way that we didn’t get a lot of time to develop relationships, and just had to rely on limited interactions and Avery’s narrations to paint our picture for us. I enjoyed the weaving together of Indigenous cultures and storytelling, into a fresh and creepy horror story. This was a really promising debut, and a genuinely scary story, and I’m so excited for more from Isaacs.