If you've already read and enjoyed some of Chuck Tingles work this book is for you. If you like interesting and diverse horror you should also check it out.
Now with that out of the way lets get to my review of the book! This book follows a young autistic woman through her life in a small town until things take a turn to the worse when she starts coughing up flies on the dinner table. Soon she's caught up in a fast paced mystery wondering who that girl is she keeps dreaming about, where the flies came from, why she only feels repulsed by boys attention toward her and why her parents are acting so weird.
This is not a book that in any way attempts to show nuance in cases of conversion therapy and religious bigotry and I enjoyed that. While multifaceted villains can be fun in some horror novels sometimes a campy (ha!) exaggerated ya villain is also fun and if that's something you enjoy you'll find it here.
I absolutely adored the way the autistic character was described and especially the way her neurodivergence influenced her view on religion. Since it is an autistic ownvoices book, I was hoping for that, but I still found myself pleasantly surprised in a world where autistic characters often still are written one dimensional and stereotypical.
The story also depicted the dread of being different and the small town evangelical prejudice very well. All in all this is a really good new book by Chuck Tingle and I quite enjoyed reading it.