I absolutely love the ending to this story, it was perfect!

This was a fun and creepy, young adult novel. Ann Davila Cardinal did a great job of leading us through this dark and twisty mystery. I like the mix of human and mystic mysteries. I also like how the title is pulled into the story.

I will definitely be reading more of Ann Davila Cardinal's work.

Alejandro Ruiz did a great job narrating this story and I look forward to listening to more of their work in the future.

First of all, I want to praise myself on reading this book and actually finishing it. Not because it was bad or anything like that, it’s just I heard this was a book with a squid like thing and yeahhhhhhhh if you know me, you know that I’m afraid of three things, and one of them is squids lol

Why am I afraid of squids? I HATE the way they move (ESPECIALLY on land). And the way they camouflage themselves and the way they have like suction on their tentacles. And of course, how many tentacles they have. (8 legs is too many ijs) So in short, I hate that they exist LOL But in reality, I shouldn’t have been scared at all. They do a lot of talking about this thing, but not enough SEEING it if that makes sense. In fact, no one had really seen it at all. All that’s really seen is a couple tentacles that rise out of the water and how they’re feeding it. But there’s nothing that SHOWS it. I was annoyed lol

I did like the build-up of things tho. So I guess that would be the writing style. I was really into the way she made me get all creeped out and scared. I just wish she had followed through? Like made the thing come out of the waves or something. But because she didn’t, it ended up just being a waste of those feelings.

The setting was the beach and of course it was amazing. A little ol quaint beach town. And literally everyone and everything in that place was corrupt lol But the other thing that bugged me was the fact that I knew who it was as soon as they were introduced. You won’t have to think too hard to solve this one, but it was still good enough to finish. I hope y’all read it and let me know if y’all figure it out too.

So yeah I liked it, but I think it felt more like a filler for a series. And this was disappointing because we don’t even know if it’s going to be a series yet. Idk. it was solid in some ways, but in others I wanted more. This one comes out tomorrow and I really want to know what y’all think!