well that opening was soul crushing - folowed by loss, grief, weed high, acute mania and coming of age somehow crash into each other to give off a way way more nightmarish Oz than I'd like to think about.

Plot/Storyline/Themes:
This story just cracked open my ribcage and squeezed my heart. Loochie loves her Bestie Sunny and the ever present threat of death just kept haunting them. But there's also this theme of Loochie caught between childhood and teendom, it's this weird tug-o-war and maybe that's why Louis stupid story about the Kroons took on a very Through-The-Looking-Glass-Darkly effect in her imagination.

Two Sentences, A Scene or less - Characters:
Would Loochie have experienced that whole sequence if it weren't for Louis planting the seed? Obviously a break in reality was coming but Louis Louis Louis - even the most sane person would get a bit paranoid after that story.

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene: :
I'm not even 12 and Louis scared the Hell outta me with that Kroons atpry. Creeeepy. Smdh 🤣older siblings always trying to scare the living bejesus out of younger siblings.

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “You whores can get out of my house!” Loochie yelled.” (I have never applauded a foul-mouth cussing 12 year old as much as I did Miss Loochie🤣)
🖤 “Being young doesn’t protect you. Horrors come for kids, too.”” (I wish this wasn't fact but it is)
🖤 “A cloud of rats. No, that’s not quite right. A flock of rats. The worst of the New York City varieties.” (Deep in Kroon hell)

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts :
■ All the millenial hits! Pink, Shakira Shakira - bittersweet memories
■ Sneak attack debt counselling
■ Kroons
■Rats with wings and not pigeons

StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 Books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Horror Books by 2025