“If you hear singing when no one is around, run!”

This is my second audiobook from this author and i was definitely here for the story. You have two cousins Anais who has been raised in Hillwoods her whole life and Bronwyn who’s moving here with her parents because of their grandmothers health. The cousins may have been close when they were younger but time and distance has put space between them. Making Bronwyn a true “outsider” in this town and I like how the story is being told from that point. 

A town with rules & secrets that they’ve lived by for generations to stay safe is the kind of spooky i like. It’s always the small towns smh. So i was drawn in right away. Keeping secrets can do more harm than good sometimes & for Bronwyn she kind of had to figure things out on her own which was messed up. Made for a good story though. Sweetie has people scared of the water and for good reason. Cutting someone’s life short for your own monstrous pleasure is dirty. It reminded me of back in the day when the white male hotel owner poured acid in the pool while black people were swimming in it to get them to leave. I feel that’s where the author was pulling from. There was some revenge killing going on but also a sense of being set free. 

However, i kind of wish we got sweeties pov as well. I think that would have added more to the story. How she viewed people in the after what happened to her while getting g her revenge. Nonetheless it’s a cool story.