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How am I 26% in to a murder mystery and the mystery hasn’t even started yet??

Just bored and confused😒

This is one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read.  It’s one of my favorite books of all time now. 

Potentially unpopular opinion but I absolutely loved the way it ended. The perfect ending to the perfect story.

Bella Jay, you have a forever fan in me because of this book and I can’t wait to read everything you’ve ever written and everything you write in the future🥰

A soft, sweet, sapphic romance with  a Persian pansexual mc with anxiety, a Black demisexual li, and enby side characters🥰 

I liked this quick short story about a loving sibling relationship, found family, and a band roadtrip! It wasn’t quite as fluffy as I thought it’d be based on the cover, but I enjoyed the relationships between our characters! And we have Tamil-American mcs and sapphic and non-binary rep! I’ll be on the lookout for more from this author in the future!

She is the reason no one goes in the water. And she will make them pay.

I enjoyed the author’s first novel, Burn Down Rise Up and I enjoyed this book too! The creep factor was so high! Especially in the beginning of the book where we don’t know what’s going on. All we know is that this town is weird, these people are weird, and somebody is in danger! The suspense was definitely being built, and I had to know what was going on! I love a good revenge story, and lemme just say that the revenge was WELL DESERVED! I was definitely rooting for all the revenge. I feel like Vincent Tirado’s writing style has improved even more since Burn Down Rise Up and I can’t wait to see how else their writing will evolve as they release more and more books!

I did have a couple of things that could’ve been better in this book to me. For one, the side characters didn’t have much personality. I wanted to like them, but they weren’t developed enough to stand out. I wanted to care about them more. Also, I was left with questions at the end. There were things that happened at the beginning of the book that weren’t mentioned again at the end, and I needed closure on those things. 

I recommend this book to anyone looking for a horror featuring a creepy town, Black main characters, revenge, and sapphic representation! Vincent Tirado is definitely an author to watch! I can’t wait to see what they release next!

Thank you NetGalley and Sourcebooks Fire for this arc! All opinions are my own.

TW: Murder and racism

I’m not a huge poetry reader, but I enjoyed this collection! There were several standout poems for me including The Reclaiming, The OUTside & the INside Joke, and No Tradebacksies x infinity, among other poems. I do think the synopsis may be a little misleading though, because I saw very few retellings of fairy tales and mythological stories. But then again, I’m not the best reader of poetry, so I may have missed something. I did enjoy this book and I feel like it’ll be a great audiobook one day because a lot of these poems would be even more beautiful when read aloud!

Thank you Button Poetry and NetGalley for this arc. All opinions are my own.

TW: parental death and murder

Too much info dumping for me. That’s my #1 book pet peeve.