Unfortunately Goodreads doesn't have the half star option. This book is from the YA horror genre but the only horror that I saw was the fact that this was a published book. This book tried to be 'Miss peregrine's home for peculiar children' and it failed so miserably.

Although the synopsis was promising the book did not deliver so imagine my horror when I found out that this is a series and not just a standalone. The book starts with a quote from Edgar Allan Poe (an author that actually used to write horror stories) so you can tell how disappointing it was when I started the book and didn't see even the inspiration from him.


About the writing and characters: it's not that the writing was unmemorable, it was just bad. Plain with no rhythm. The characters are supposed to be 16 but the author clearly had no clue how these kids interact.We have Dan as our main character who had come from the foster system and was adopted by this amazing couple who even sent him to therapy when he needed to. He seems like an anxious boy who hopes to make new friends in this pre- prep summer school for college.


All of the sudden he meets Abby and Jordan and a friendship just happens and.... Oh no suddenly Dan is jealous of Jordan because he's good looking and has it all because apparently all of the sudden Dan likes Abby who he just met but don't worry Jordan just came out to them as gay and Abby is not his type (gotcha