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Mister Magic by Kiersten White
5.0
adventurous dark mysterious tense

The participants of a long running childrens' show with no surviving footage get together for a reunion. It's more complicated than that, and that's the really good part of the book as Val, who remembers nothing and has been kept at a ranch by her father most of her life, meets people who are supposed to have once been her best friends and discovers some shocking stuff about her family. Mysterious childrens' TV shows are very much my jam and this almost, but not quite, gets it. It ends up being quite oddly wholesome with a Stephen King style band of childhood friends finally putting their issues, of which there are many, aside, to face danger together. It's not unsatisfying, and it is dark and weird, but I kinda hoped for darker and weirder. Maybe I'm just being picky. Shouldn't be reviewing books based on what they're not, but sometimes it's all I got.

(That's about four books over two days which is a lot even for me, but I pulled something in my back, that's why.)