I was drawn to this book because of the creepy doll on the cover.  I was hoping this would be an exciting thriller but it ended up being a bland and forgettable mystery..  I felt like the story was kind of predictable and nothing really surprised me.  The main character was juvenile and annoying and I didn’t connect with any of the characters.  It’s a bummer because I thought I would enjoy this one.  I did read this book pretty quickly though and I was interested in finding out the conclusion.  I wouldn’t recommend this book because, in my opinion, there are better young adult mystery/thrillers out there.

Thanks so much to Sourcebooks Fire for the e-galley.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Chelsea Ichaso is new to the YA Fiction and Psychological Thriller genre and I was instantly intrigued by her book cover and the description given. I have never been more happy that a book was exactly what I was hoping for in all my life.

I LOVE THIS BOOK. I read it in about 4 hours, in one sitting, while riding out some bad weather at home. It was that good. From the very beginning it was intriguing and draws you in. Instant action that left an abundance of questions that I just had to find the answers for. I had multiple guesses of who the bad guy was along the way. I’m happy to say ONE of them is right. But not necessarily the first one I picked. Ichaso definitely kept me guessing until the very end.

I love these characters. As annoyed as I get when people don’t do the obvious things like go to the police with evidence and such, all these characters are so fun to read. I also felt like Cassidy made the decisions she did because she really thought she was protecting others as well. Gideon is my favorite character because his personality is just good. You feel warm around him. But I got to a point I wasn’t sure that warmth was good, or hiding something bad. Asher was the idea brother and reminded me a lot of my own brother in his protective senses. These characters were some of my favorites I’ve read in a very long Time.

The story flowed nicely, even when it was flashing to other side stories that happened years before. The characters were extremely well written and developed. You really felt like you got to know them. The story line was new and refreshing compared to the same old story a lot of books seem to be. I cannot wait to see what else Chelsea Ichaso comes out with next. I will be first in line to pick it up! A non-stop, edge of my seat, mind twisting psychological thriller that had be guessing til the very end.

If you love psychological thrillers and liked to be on the edge of your seat the entire time, then pick up Little Creeping Things by Chelsea Ichaso. You will not regret it.

I fell into the trap of judging a book by its cover - originally picked this up because I thought it was about a horror story about a haunted doll... it wasn't :(   

Still a really good read though - a solid thriller. Loved the twists and second-guessing throughout. There's limited cursing/sexual content (actually... none that I remember) - I will be adding this to my Middle School collection.

Cassidy Pratt is known as the fire girl in her town because she started a fire when she was a child. The fire killed her best friend, while Cass was saved by her brother. When Cass’s enemy at school, Melody, goes missing, Cass thinks she knows what happened. Melody’s disappearance seems to follow a list that Cass wrote down in her notebook of how she would kill Melody. Cass gets threatening text messages from the unknown person who has her notebook. Finding the person who is blackmailing Cass will lead her to solve Melody’s disappearance.

This book was a quick read for me. It was fast paced and moved along quickly. There were loads of twists that kept me surprised. It was also creepy, since someone had seemed to perform the actions that Cass listed in her notebook. It had to be someone that she knew, since they got ahold of her notebook, so I considered everyone a suspect.

In many young adult books, the lack of parental supervision is strange. Some of the decisions that the parents made in this story were unusual, particularly ones revealed at the end. The way that Cass was the only one blamed for the fire was one way that I found the parents to be unusually absent. Kids can be mean and find any reason to tease another child, which explains the way other children called her the fire girl. However, an adult should have been supervising them so they couldn’t start a fire, yet none of the parents were blamed for their part in the fire. That part was not explained, which put all of the blame and pressure on Cass.

I enjoyed this fast paced thriller.

Thank you Sourcebooks Fire for providing a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Musings:

I enjoyed this book. Parts of it were slow and it took a while for me to be super into it, but I liked it all the same. It was a fun read.

What I enjoyed:

The creepy descriptions. One of the creepiest parts of the book are how the main character Cassidy sees things sometimes. People turn into dolls with big blue eyes in her mind and it’s an unsettling part that peppers throughout the novel.

The twists. I should have expected, but did not expect the ending. The signs were there and I got distracted and ended up delightfully surprised at the end. Made the book more interesting.

The paranoia. I liked how mistrustful Cassidy was. It did make things interesting and with someone threatening her it kept me on edge a bit.

All in all

I enjoyed Little Creeping things. It’s a fun little thriller that gets better as it goes and it’s a fun read.

Cassidy is known as 'little fire girl' for something that happened in her childhood that left her scarred both physically and mentally. This is something that truly affected her entire life, and made it so she really didn't have many friends because of living in a small town and everyone being a little leery of her. She does have one best friend though and that is Gideon who has been by her side since second grade and the two have been inseparable since. 

One day the two are in there  secret place in the woods that they've made since they were little kids. But they hear something they possibly shouldn't have and that thing is Melody being in the woods with someone, but they don't know who or why. All they do know is that things are similar to something that Cassidy said to someone else in the past, and with her reputation as a 'little fire girl' already she knows everyone will blame her. This leads to Cassidy and Gideon trying to solve who took Melody and why before the person comes forward or potentially frames Cassidy on their own. 

Overall I loved this book.  The main character Cassidy seemed incredibly unreliable throughout at least half of the book I would say as she was made to seem like she was losing it. We have the friendship with Gideon that is strong at first, but we slowly see to fray due to multiple different things happening throughout the story. We also have an unlikely friendship happen between Cassidy and Emily that is rather complicated, then we have Peter who was also around and seemed like an answer to some things. What got me the most though was how you could really feel the small-townness of the place that Cassidy lived. The grudges being held, and the name-calling that spreads not just through the high school but to everyone in town which leads to reputations happening that everyone and their dog knows about. The author did such a good job of bringing all that together to make the situation that Cassidy was in even more complicated. 
Every time I thought I had it figured out about what happened to Melody I was wrong. There were so many twists and turns, and everyone involved being afraid to say something due to it being a small town and how it meant they probably knew the person responsible and that person had even more dirt on them possibly. I will say I figured it out at the end before Cassidy did due to some things just not seeming quite right to me. I will say though Ichaso did an amazing job of throwing me off the trail constantly of who it could be and why they did it. Was not expecting the why they did it at all. This was a good YA thriller for a change, and I liked how you could really feel the different elements happening and the characters actually acting their age!

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to read Little Creeping Things.  This book is geared toward young adults and is written in an understandable way.
Great introduction for the thriller/mystery genre for teens.
3 stars.

This is definitely a YA book and I would recommend for middle schoolers.  Cassidy is a teenager, filled with drama, angst and overreaction.  She jumps to conclusions, is worried about what people think of her and also believe that long ago when she was a child she set a fire that almost killed her and did kill her best friend.  

Her friend Gideon is drawn to women hurting and in danger.  He has been Cassies best friend since they were young and they are inseparable, that is until Cassie starts acting strangely and hiding things from him.  

As Cassie tries to unravel who she heard in the woods and what happened to Melody, things kept taking twists and turns and clues seem to point in all directions.  Its like being inside the mind of a teenager with all the quick changes of direction and faulty reasoning and while I got tired of it as some points it did keep you guessing and the end I didn't see coming so I have to go with 4 stars for keeping me on my toes.

I’ve been on a real run with thrillers for a while now and this one did not disappoint. There were a lot of twists and turns and every time I thought I knew what was going on, I was wrong. This is a compulsively readable book that keeps you invested. This will be a great addition to any teen collection. And for those of you who want a little bit of substance with your books, you will also find themes of childhood trauma, gaslighting, and abuse. It’s dark, but as I’ve told you before, dark is good. Put this in the hands of Karen McManus fans asap. Published in June by Sourcebooks.- http://www.teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2020/07/book-reviews-thrillers-edition-little-creeping-things-and-nobody-knows-but-you/

I really wanted to like this book. The premise sounded amazing. It was promising. But Cass is an insecure and selfish teen who acts like a kid. The twists and turns are incoherent. I felt like the story was going everywhere at once, it was dizzying. One good thing: I really didn't see the end coming. I don't know yet if it's a good thing or not... 

Many thanks to Sourcebooks Fire for the complimentary e-copy of this book through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

You know what's especially great about this book? I can recommend it for middle school age kids all the way up through my kids graduating. Cassidy is relateable although most of us have never been accused of starting a fire that killed a neighbor. She is constantly under everyone's critical eyes and a favorite scapegoat for the town. So, when the town's bully goes missing, everyone wonders if Cassidy is at it again. The mystery is intriguing enough to capture almost any reader while staying clean enough to not limit the audience. There's a fair amount of suspense and excitement to keep readers going.  I can see it being checked out constantly!

Little Creeping Things by Chelsea Ichaso is a young adult thriller with an unreliable narrator. This one would be for the fans of did she or didn’t she or one in which you just don’t know who to trust.

Cassidy Pratt is now a teenager but when she was little she had been saved from a fire that she herself had started. That moment in Cassidy’s life was forever marked in tragedy as another child died which in turn has made Cassidy an outcast among her peers.

One of the popular girls that constantly teases Cassidy is Melody Davenport. One day while Cassidy is in her favorite hiding spot she overhears what she believes is someone murdering Melody but Cassidy can’t go to the police since what she heard sounds exactly like her own ideas for a perfect murder of her mean girl nemesis.

Little Creeping Things not only has an unreliable narrator but one that is still struggling to overcome her past which adds to the tension. The tone is rather eerie as the book gets going but I would warn it can be a little teen angsty towards the middle with some romance drama thrown in. However I still enjoyed the story and thought the ending was solid to go well with the tense beginning.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.

Not my favourite read lately, but I finished it in less than a day so it kept my interest. The plot twist at the end was a little predictable.

I LOVED this book. Twists and turns in every corner. My students are always looking for thrillers, and this is one that I will definitely be adding to my classroom library.

Interesting, what I would call, young adult thriller. My only real complaint would be the protagonist cries way too much. It started getting annoying fast for me.

Thank you NetGalley and Sourcebooks Fire for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book is a YA Thriller which I found to be a little slow in development.  Even  as a YA novel , I found the relationships in this story to be a bit off from reality.  But then again it is Fiction.  It's a solid 3 stars, as it was entertaining although a bit predictable.

This story starts out with Cassidy having a hallucination during practice, which sets the scene to learn about her history.  She suffered a tragedy as a child and is still dealing with it every day.  So she is the outcast and the not popular girl who is dragged into a murder mystery.    I liked learning about her history and trying to piece the puzzle of it all together but the result was pretty scooby doo.

Good for fans of YA, YA mysteries, Nancy Drew and the Hardy boys.

I was intrigued from beginning to end, and enjoyed the reading experience.  I was interested in the characters, and looked forward to learning where their stories would lead.

Trigger warnings: alleged sexual harassment, suicidal ideation

This isn't going to be an in-depth review because, honestly, this book wasn't that in-depth.

Little Creeping Things is very much a gateway YA thriller. The story is fine, the characters are fine. But nothing stood out or blew me away. It's the kind of book that is okay in the moment but I quickly forgot the details once I finished.

I found both the characters and the plot pretty flat and one-dimensional. While I enjoyed the idea of the main character's backstory, it felt like just an idea. I was never fully engaged with what happened, even when the backstory and plot tie together for a/n (equally mild) plot twist.

I was further disengaged with the story by some unnecessary school-yard bullying of a character pretty much unknown to the reader. It was pointlessly included and honestly pretty gross.

Overall, if it's on your shelf and you haven't read a tonne of YA thrillers, by all means pick it up. But there are plenty of better recommendations in the YA thriller sphere, in my personal opinion.

Cassidy, unfortunately known throughout her high school as Fire Girl, is a completely and utterly unreliable narrator. This fast-paced novel keeps the reader engaged, as Cassidy overhears one of her tormentors murdered - and knows that her notebook is floating around town somewhere, with explicit instructions on how to commit the murder. Like Cass, the reader will also be grasping at straws trying to figure out who the murderer is, and what really happened that fateful day when Cass’s best friend burned to death in their treehouse. Recommend to teens who devour April Henry and Natasha Preston novels.

An addictive and chilling YA thriller that I obviously enjoyed a lot because well, I am a sucker for YA mysteries and when there is a high school setting in it haaah considered the deal sealed! First, of all the cover is GORGEOUSLY CREEPY and I APPRECIATE IT A LOT. THANK YOU. Cassidy Pratt, known as the fire girl is most often the talk of the school for an incident that happen in her childhood and well years later she finds herself haunted by her past and in the midst of another terrifying incident that she thinks unintentionally caused. The disappearance of  Melody Davenport, the bully who seems to not let go of the tainted incident and still publicly calls Cass the “fire girl”.
Then she gets a text which reads: I’m so glad we’re in this together.
Creepy stalker “A” like messages check! A missing girl check! A well plotted mystery check! Unreliable narrator check! Incriminating evidence against the protagonist check!
Getting back to what I liked and didn’t like : I was definetly impressed by the writing as it kept me hooked to a point that I lost track of time. Cassidy’s character struggling through her trauma and the triggering events that were happening around her definitely had my whole attention and sympathy. I was quite intrigued by the plot and ofcourse the big reveal was what I was waiting for but it did kind leave me sad! Because, although I could connect the dots with everything that happened in the past and the present, I was certainly feeling positive about the said character,although I had my doubts. 
 So, all in all I’d say LITTLE CREEPING THINGS was an absolute nail bitter and had me on the edge the whole time! A quick read and perfect weekend getaway if you are looking for a YA thriller to spice up your reading mood!