Rating: 1/5
Book Blurb:
From the author of the BookTok sensation Win Lose Kill Die, comes an explosive mystery about a teenager whose true-crime obsession hits a little too close to home when she begins receiving cryptic messages after moving into a new house. "Deliciously twisted fun!"—Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying
When true-Crime obsessed Paige, along with her family, move across the Atlantic to her father's eerie hometown, it's not long before she uncovers the town's dark history—a string of unsolved murders and disappearances in the 90s.
Soon after, notes start appearing at their home, about the secrets the old house is keeping. The clues lead Paige to a diary concealed in the walls that belonged to one of the missing girls.
Could this be the key to solving a quarter-of-a-century mystery...or will the diary make Paige the next target?
Review:
A mixture of true crime with The Watcher, the story follows a teen girl who moves into a new home only to find that it has a bloody past and that mysterious letters keep arriving for her. Paige loves true crime and has just moved from the UK to the US. She's moved into her father's creepy hometown with a dark bloody history, and in particular her own new house is connected to a string of unsolved murders and disappearances in the 90s. When she begins receiving creepy letters, Paige then finds a diary in the walls of her home that belonged to one of the missing girls... it could be the key to solving one of the unsolved mysteries or be the reason Paige becomes the next target. This book just felt a bit shallow to me, I wasn't at all hooked by the mystery and having actually seen and read so many other similar stories that used the "The Watcher" storyline it just kind of felt meh overall. I was hoping I would like this one but it just felt a bit too juvenile to me and while it was a miss for me I do think maybe other young adult readers will enjoy this mystery.
Release Date: September 24,2024
Publication/Blog: Ash and Books (ash-and-books.tumblr.com)
*Thanks Netgalley and Random House Children's | Delacorte Press for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*