4.5/5 Stars
Pub Date: Sep 28, 2021
“I don’t want to share not even with a dead man.”
Survivors of a traumatic event in their teen years, best friends Andrew and Eddie are inseparable. Bonded beyond brotherhood.
When Eddie gets early admission to Vanderbilt, for a program they both will be attending, they spend an agonizing spring apart. Andrew can’t wait to join him but Eddie seems less eager for him to come to Nashville.
When Eddie turns up dead from an apparent suicide, Andrew refuses to believe that happened.
So Andrew heads to Nashville and steps into Eddie’s life. His house and his friends, his thesis and the research that could’ve got him killed.
What follows is a story dripping grief from every page. Fast cars and bad decisions. Dark academia and pitch black family histories. Violence, curses, ghosts and haunted houses. I’d be remiss to not mention all the angst and sexual tension 😅. Sam. Oh, Sam.
This queer neo-noir southern gothic horror was exactly what I needed.
Thank you to Net Galley and Tordotcom for an ARC of this title.