Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

The premise for this was so cool but ultimately, I felt very meh by the end. I liked that the setting was in 2000, but it felt like Juliano was trying too hard to make references to 90’s pop culture in every possible scene. I did really like the mixed media aspect. I think the fact that it was a story within a story, Piper’s blog entries, Avery’s journal entries, and Sam’s online scraping, brought new perspectives of all the moving parts to the story and it was interesting. Honestly, I’m pretty surprised that I haven’t read a horror novel surrounding those spam chain email threads before and I think Juliano’s take on those threads was really cool. Piper was a great protagonist, she’s inquisitive and compassionate, and was willing to believe the paranormal activity she saw.

It was a quick, entertaining read but felt too full of references to truly create a creepy atmosphere, ending up with a novel that lacked overall tension or climax.