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We Came to Welcome You by Vincent Tirado

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

I enjoyed this. I’ve never lived in suburbia, but I’m pretty sure it’s not for me either, Sol! Unless it was mandated as a quiet, childfree neighborhood with a mandatory pollinator garden…🤔🤭 I would love to see a movie adaptation of this.

Energy: Disparaging. Dubious. Hazy.

🐺 Growls

The audio narrator’s rhythm was distracting…it sounded like early AI trying it’s best - “ThE sun was. Shining ThRoUgH. The WiNdOwS. Whenshenoticed her NeIgHbOuR”.

🐕 Howls

The slower pace can feel too drawn out, especially if you’re not relating to the premise or main character. Seemed to fall apart leading up to the end.

🐩 Tail Wags

Refreshing take on a suburban suspense. Relatable MC. Subtle but thought-provoking exploration of suburban & academic toxicity. Slow burn pacing, getting to know the characters and their daily lives. Sound effects in the audio. More vibes than plot (but still has a plot). The spirit of the ending.

Scene: 🇺🇸 Set in suburban Connecticut

Perspective: A molecular researcher distracted by an accusation that could end their career moves to the suburbs with their spouse, who chose the house and neighbourhood.

Timeline: Current (2020s-ish)

🔥 Fuel: Character evolution. Moral dilemmas. Relationship dynamics. Tension and social commentary. Unreliable narrator potential. Who to trust. Why is Soul feeling uneasy about her new neighbourhood? Why are she and Alicia not getting along anymore? Are people behaving strangely?

📖 Cred: Supernatural sci-fi realism

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Aspen trees. Radio static. Gift basket. Rotting meat. Fresh cut grass. Mould. Silent forest. Runny nose.

Problematic HOAs
Social commentary wrapped in atmospheric, ‘something’s off’ energy
Creepy kids
Creature feature, things that go bump in the night
Academic drama
Relationship eroding
Horticultural sci-fi, hint of nature’s revenge
Hive-minds and Sameness dangers
Domestic social suburban horror
Slow burn, meandering, ‘sit with it’ plots
Third person narration, being the ghost in the room tagging along with the MC
Hint of “good for her” feels

Content Heads-Up: Racism (assumptions, stereotyping, rejection/limiting opportunities, anxieties, diminishing efforts). Homophobia (family rejection and abuse, physical attack). Depression, anxiety (symptoms). Unsafe childhood home (intoxicated parent, physical punishments). Alcohol (over-imbibing, self-medicating, substance abuse). Social anxiety. False accusation (academic integrity). Parasites (facts). Toxic masculinity. Funeral. Sabotage. Car crash (very brief; fatal). Suicide (off page recall, imagery). Fire (building). Sexual content (brief).

Rep: American. First gen Korean American. Second gen Dominican American, Black Latina. Cis. Lesbian. Soft brown, deep brown, pale, and ambiguous skin tones. Childfree by choice. Allergies (pollen).

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The Madness by Dawn Kurtagich

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dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

I felt like this book was trying too hard. It explores important themes, but everything is presented with such heavy-handed commentary and spoon-feeding that I lost all interest.

Energy: Indignant. Grating. Hostile.

🐺 Growls

Felt too stereotypical, one-dimensional gender wars [portraying men as lecherous or foolish, while women are idealized as having almost supernatural goodness]. Main character was giving ‘not like other girls’ energy. The plot (especially Mina’s decisions) lacked logic and emotional depth. Explored commentary by reducing everything to formulaic “learn a lesson” arcs. Attempts at symbolism are so heavy-handed they lost impact. Convenient, almost cartoony, predictable solutions leading up to the conclusion.

🐕 Howls

Overly simplistic, surface-level, emotionally flat but melodramatic, purple prose-ish storytelling. Over-explaining the characters’ thoughts and actions in a way that had me feeling like I was reading a children’s book (the style, not content...don’t give this to children lol).

🐩 Tail Wags

Formatting of text messages and emails. The visceral descriptions and medical mystery.

Scene: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Mainly a small village in Wales.

Perspectives: Our main character works as a mental health professional specializing in female psychology who is processing their own traumas. We also get the perspective of an unknown person being offered a mysterious high paying job at a night club. We also get snippets of emails, medical reports, newspaper articles, and transcripts.

Timeline: Current (2010s or 2020s).

🔥 Fuel: Withholding – what happened in Mina’s past? Emotional stakes. Moral dilemmas. Quests and infiltrating the bad guys. Commentary.

📖 Cred: Suspended disbelief folklore

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Bleach. Soap. Verbena. Tea tree oil. Loamy earth. Drizzling rain. Sour breath. Seagulls. Beach campfires. Secret passageways.

· Witchy Welsh mom, folklore, superstitions

· Return to hometown

· Psychological mystery

· Mysterious medical condition

· Feminist questing and teamin gup

· Detective duo amateur sleuthing

· Supernatural darkness

· Fampir lore

· First love reunited romance

· Deep in the character’s mind, inner monologues

Content Heads-Up: Obsessive compulsive thoughts, rituals. Trypophobic stuff (brief). Seizure (on page). Vomit, sickness, weakness (graphic, on page). Sexual content (consenting). Physical attacks, overpowering others. Trafficking, confinement, drugging. Sexual assault, violence, rape. Nicotine (tobacco, cigarettes). Dog attack. Blood.

Rep: Welsh. Cis. Hetero. Bi. Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Facial scars. Diabetes.

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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

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funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

I’m still trying to figure out if I’m a cozy mystery person, but I really liked this (looking forward to the second one). For a good chunk of the book, the murder mystery took a backseat to the characters' day-to-day struggles, but I wasn’t into the mystery as much as I was into the characters so that worked for me.

Energy: Assured. Cute. Animated.

🐕 Howls

The amount of food consumed after being touched by a toddler was making me gag lol.

🐩 Tail Wags

The writing style. The characters and their interactions. The lighthearted tone (without being cheesy). Funny, but in a genuine way. How it drew me in more as the story progressed.

Scene: 🇺🇸 Set in the San Francisco Chinatown area, California

Perspectives (5): A widow with a grown son and owner of a run-down tea house with few customers. A suddenly single parent of a toddler after their spouse comes into money and leaves them. Two characters who are tangentially related to the victim that are drawn into the widow’s world. The brother of the victim. We also get snippets of the teahouse owner’s amateur sleuthing case notes.

Timeline: Current (2010s or 2020s).

🔥 Fuel: Character evolution. Emotional investment. Mystery solving. Why did Marshall end up dead in the tea house? Was it murder? How are the other characters involved with him? Will Vera solve the case after police dismiss it?

📖 Cred: Semi-realistic

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Oolong tea. Sun visor. Flashdrive. Sweet flowers. Milk. Tangyuan. Toddler laughing.

Cozy murder mystery
Comedic amateur sleuth snooping
Adorable older main character perspectives
Books to read with tea and homecooked meals
Gathering the suspects tea spilling
Heartwarming found family
Whimsical, witty writing style

Content Heads-Up: Loss of spouse. Stroke. Alzheimer’s (off page). Marriage breakup, abandonment. Domestic abuse (verbal, emotional). Murder/dead body. Loss of parent (as child). Theft. Sibling rivalry. Allergic reaction.

Rep: Black, Chinese, Indonesian, Indian, and Asian American. Cis. Hetero. Warm brown and ambiguous skin tones.

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Dearest by Jacquie Walters

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challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Oof and Ew. This was an unsettling, visceral dive into the rawness of motherhood. There were so many wtf moments and I almost noped out a few times, but I’m glad I stuck with it.

Energy: Distraught. Psychedelic. Evil.

🐕 Howls

The graphic depictions of post-birth, breastfeeding, and newborn care…maybe coulda toned that down a little? Sometimes it felt gratuitous, but also, it’s mostly Facts so I should probably take that up with nature, not here.

🐩 Tail Wags

The slow-building sense of dread and unpredictability. How it made me so jumpy. The Twists. The unromanticising of parenthood. The honesty - as someone who doesn’t want children, I gained more empathy for those who do and the complex feelings involved. Showing the destructive impact children have on the ones that brought them into existence.

Scene: 🇺🇸 Set in a family home in Bennington, Vermont

Perspective: A former genetic counsellor’s is alone at home caring for their newborn baby, while their spouse is deployed overseas. In a moment of desperation, they reach out to the mother they went no-contact with. We also get flashbacks into the family dynamics a few generations back.

Timeline: Current (2010s or 2020s).

🔥 Fuel: Emotional Stakes. Big Twists and Reveals reframing the story. Unpredictability. Should our main character reach out to her estranged mother for help? What is real and what is only in her mind? How can she protect her baby from herself? Or others? Why is this happening to her?

📖 Cred: Hyper-realistic surrealism

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Breast milk. Diapers. Grapefruit and coconut. Swear, sulfur, and old cheese. Pelting rain. Rancid body odour. Power outage. Crunching snow. Pus.

Complex, conflicted motherhood experience
Relatable or cathartic moments for mothers/parents
Sleep-deprived, overwhelmed, unreliable narrator
Childhood imaginary friend returns
Curled up on a rainy/snowy day reads (but not while eating, never while eating 🤢)
Symbolic commentary exploring narcissistic abuse, the curse of generational trauma, the sacrifices around motherhood
Where does reality end and the dream/nightmare begin surrealism
Shadow self, post-partum, or possession manifesting as body horror
Something-is-wrong-with-this-child and Doppelganger paranoia fuel
Third person narratives where the reader is flitting from fly on the wall, to time-traveller, to deep in the character’s mind
Sensory, eerie, chaotic world building

Content Heads-Up: Breastfeeding (descriptive; infection, pain, sensations, pumping). Birth, post-pregnancy (descriptive). Hallucinations, delusions, paranoia. Sleep deprivation. Loneliness. Bug stuff (beetles). Infection, pus (descriptive; wound). Blood, body fluids. Sleep paralysis. Toxic parent. Voyeurism (online; very brief). Institutionalization, psychosis (brief recall; anxiety about). Animal cruelty (very brief on page recall; child to dog). Fire (burns; brief but descriptive). Post-partum mental illness/‘baby blues’. Family annihilation (intrusive thoughts, depictions, descriptive recall).

Rep: American. Cis. Hetero. Ambiguous skin tones.

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Nightmare of a Trip by Maureen Kilmer

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adventurous emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

My disappointment with this one hurts. I was so excited for it until the repetitive over-musing inner monologues. There was no need for filler, the story and writing had so much potential! Sadness.

Energy: Chatty. Enthusiastic. Incredulous.

🐺 Growls:

Too much of the main character not communicating with their spouse, while complaining about not communicating with their spouse. Repetitive inner monologue hyper-focused on a personal scare (I swear, something intriguing would be happening in the background and the main character would be standing in the way like “Do I tell him now? Now? How about now? Now? You know what, do I even want to tell him?”).

🐕 Howls: Super predictable, spotlighting and over-hinting of plot direction. Rushed ending (felt like the author just wanted this all to be over).

🐩 Tail Wags:

The nostalgic-yet-modern road trip energy. Captured the tension and disappointment of travelling with dependents. Relatable family dynamics—some bickering, some wandering off, nothing too picture-perfect, but moments of joy. Horror-tinged with well-balanced “such is life” humour.

Scene: 🇺🇸 Set on the road in Wisconsin, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida

Perspective: A divorce lawyer traveling to a famous Florida amusement park in a minivan with their spouse and three kids aged 16, 11, and 7.

Timeline: Current (2020s).

🔥 Fuel: Observing happenings, along for the ride. General unease. Strange things happening in the background. Will expectations meet reality? What challenges will they face on the road trip? Are the happenings coincidence or supernatural?

📖 Cred: Paranormal realism

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Overstuffed minivan. Cornfields. Cicadas. Hot pavement. Litter. Wooded back roads. Barbeque. Honeysuckle Dreams. Humidity. $24 hot dogs.

Books to read on road trips
Humorous family dysfunction (reminded me of Erma Bombeck)
Cozy horror-lite Americana
Creepy things kids say, see, do
Weird and abandoned things
Cursed object energy
Motherhood and parenting drama
Time warp / other dimensions ghosty bits
Quirky pit stops, attractions, and staying with fam
Paranormal visions

Content Heads-Up: Nausea, vomiting (descriptive, frequent; on page). Pregnancy. Sensory overload, panic attacks. Cancer (childhood, in remission; very brief recall). Divorce (cases described; brief). Fire/fire injury (building; deaths). Death of child (historic/past event; descriptive recall).

Rep: American. Cis. Hetero. Pink and freckled skin tones.

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Random thought: One small change could’ve saved this book for me

Imagine if readers were left guessing if the mom was sick from stress, food, or something supernatural. That final chapter stays as is, but is now a surprising twist - we find out she was pregnant all along (which goes along with her surprisingly naïve understanding of how pregnancies happen/math lol). And the baby eerily resembles that ghostly kid. Yes? No?

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The Babysitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 65%.

Enjoying this but I need text. Audio only is way too confusing. I can't listen to this while doing ANYTHING else because the minute I'm distracted for even a second, I'm lost, especially as we get deeper into it. And taking breaks then coming back to it I have to keep rewinding way back because I forget which multiverse we're in or who is who.
I just need text for this, or to wait until I have a solid day of nothing to do and I'll listen to it in one go. It's an investment read for me.

Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker

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emotional lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Wait, do I like cozy horror? I was surprisingly hooked despite not much actually happening for a good chunk of the book. But if you find Mara boring, or are here for dark spooks and haunts, I imagine this could feel like a very long novella!

Energy: Go-with-the-flow. Gentle. Sympathetic.

🐕 Howls:

This book is more cute than creepy; it took a second for me to reframe my expectations once I realized that. Predictable but still fun to read.

🐩 Tail Wags:

Slow burn plot (most of this is just Mara navigating the new gig). Fun fake-outs – eerie little things happen and sometimes lead nowhere. Slow start then rapid-fire conclusion but didn’t feel rushed…or maybe I’ve read too many long books recently 🤷‍♀️. Our MC isn’t easily scared, but is not so ‘meh’ that it ruins the tension. Writing style gave middle grade vibes sometimes but it worked for me – concise but moved the story along nicely.

Scene: 🇺🇸 Set in Western Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.

Perspective: An aspiring climate scientist who struggles to stay focused in their classes, so they’re taking another ‘gap year’. They land a cool (but exhausting) job on a home improvement reality show through a cousin’s connections.

There are also transcripts between chapters from one episode of the show.

Timeline: Current (2020s). Summer.

🔥 Fuel: Uncertainty. How will Mara’s new job go? Why is her cousin ghosting her? Is something supernatural going on? Will she find a friend in the new employee?

📖 Cred: Paranormal realism

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Backyard fire pit. Motel restaurant. Burnt food. Wood carving. Family bonfire. Fiddler jams. Apple orchard. Home libraries. Night shift.

Snapshot-of-a-life stories about self-acceptance
Undercurrent of paranormal realism
Snippets of episode transcripts
Conclusions that are more smiles than spooks
Character driven slow burn
Concise, to-the-point storytelling
Feeling like the outsider in a big, loud fam
Finding their way, on their last dollars MC
Horror-lite scaring people for a living and ghosties
Behind the scenes paranormal investigators meets campy home improvement reality show

Content Heads-Up: Fire (smoke, no injuries/damage). Divorce (very brief mention). Animal death (cows; historical; very brief mention). Death (brief off page recall; heart condition; old age). Arthritis.

Rep: American. Black American, Indian American, and non-binary peripherals. Dark, pale, and ambiguous skin tones.

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We Love the Nightlife by Rachel Koller Croft

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dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Really enjoyed this, especially the ending. It was worth the wait to find out the truths about everyone and how things turn out for them. Have your music apps nearby for extra vibes 🎶

Energy: Deceptive. Glamorous. Vivacious.

🐕 Howls

Some minor plot holes but it was easy to just go with it (like all the missing people no one seems to miss lol). Around 50% Amber’s chapters started to feel repetitive as she continues the plot to escape.

🐩 Tail Wags

The frenetic nostalgia (I wasn’t even alive for most of this, but I could feel that energy!). Alternating the perspectives every chapter. Slow-building lore that didn’t feel convoluted. The action never felt overdone, cheesy, or drawn out.

Scene: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Set in the nightclubs of London, England

Perspectives (2): A vampire who turned in the 1980s and now wants to be independent of the one who turned them. The vampire who turned them who has a history going back to the 1840s.

Timelines: 1840s. 1979/1980. 2006. Late 2020s.

🔥 Fuel: Character journeys. Growth and transformation. Revealing backstories. Lower-stakes race against time. Why did Amber choose to become a vampire? Will her plan for independence work? Where did it all go wrong with her master?

📖 Cred: Magical realism

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Nightclub lighting. Velvet rope. Thudding bass. Leather. Tuberose. Rust and metal. Snapping photos. Disco. Synth. Dancing. New Year’s Eve.

Peeping, following, spying on characters
Break-up plots
Sprinkling of gritty, noir-style sarcastic humour
How far would you go for immortality?
Glam vampire saga
Moments of magical historical realism
Predators’ perspective, on the hunt
Plotting to escaping a toxic relationship
Nightclub ownership
Vampiric origin stories
Good-for-them revenge
Characters kind of talking to the reader, narrating their scenes
Vibey, immersive, detailed world (and lore) building

Content Heads-Up: Murder. Controlling friendship. Blood (not as graphic as you’d think). Drug use (brief scenes; cocaine, quaaludes). Misandry. Misogyny. COVID lockdowns (briefly implied). Intimate partner violence. Toxic friendship. Family/parental abandonment. Fear of abandonment. Confinement (building).

Rep: American-British. British. Cis. Hetero. Bi. Lesbian. Pale and ambiguous skin tones.

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William by Mason Coile

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dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I’m not afraid of what Ai can do, I’m afraid of what humans can do. I think that’s why I loved this 😅. I liked the parallels around parenthood for what happens when something is starved of the guidance and care it needs.

Energy: Dependent. Deranged. Devoted.

🐕 Howls

Some predictable moments (moreso if you recently read the classic this was inspired by), but it didn’t take away from the story for me. Some of the symbolism was either lost on me or I missed the answers to some of the weird things that happened that I still want answers to!

🐩 Tail Wags

Eerie, claustrophobic atmosphere. Sense of watching everything unfold from a distance (almost how it feels viewing security cam footage). Unusual (but effective) metaphors. Exploration of the themes, motifs, commentary. The modern re-telling and end twist.

Scene: 🌎 Set in an unspecified Upstate College Town.

Perspective: Mainly a married couple. One is a severely agoraphobic robotics genius tinkering with their experiments in a home lab. The other is a brilliant computer scientist expecting a child but no longer invested in the relationship.

Timeline: Not too distant future, on the day before Halloween.

🔥 Fuel: Sense of confusion. Puzzle pieces coming together. Twists, why is this happening? Trapped in a fight for survival. Why did Henry create his Ai robot? Why keep him around half finished? Will Henry win back his wife? What or who has possessed the home? Will they get out?

📖 Cred: Not too distant future sci-fi realism

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Mineral scent of autumn. Black out curtains. Halloween decorations. Charred animal rot. Lights off. Steam. Basement.

Marriage in peril
Dinner party gone wrong
Gone Horribly Right techno sci-fi
Ghost in the machine, it’s in the house
Consequences of abandonment
Gruesome deaths
Ironic bizarro
Tragic monsters, anti-villains
Grey on grey morality
Flip the script endings (could re-read with new perspective)
Exploring the creator-creation connection, AI, human responsibility, and the future of technology
Detached perspective third-person narration

Content Heads-Up: Agoraphobia, anxiety. Pregnancy. Infidelity, betrayal, abandonment, loneliness. Violence. Confinement (house). Unrequited love. Blood, death, murder, dismemberment. Corpse discovery. Pregnancy.

Rep: Human. Ai. Hetero. Ambiguous skin tones.

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Hampton Heights by Dan Kois

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adventurous dark funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

So creepy and suspenseful to start. As the characters go door-to-door canvassing it took a turn into casual fairy tale/fantasy territory that I didn’t love. I liked the dark, almost over-the-top (in the best way) Intro and Kevin chapters, it just clashed with the lighter fairy tale style stories for the kids’ chapters for me (readers who prefer the fantastical/magical stories may feel the opposite!).

Energy: Wary. Heartwarming. Venturesome.

🐕 Howls:

The horror-lite kids’ perspective chapters when they encountered their horrors. The commentary within the story sometimes felt heavy-handed yet a bit dumped into the story.

🐩 Tail Wags:

Charming, nostalgic writing style. Atmospheric tone. The eerie kids’ perspective chapters just before they encountered their horrors. The foreshadowing and omniscient third person narrator. Feeling of unease. Effectively using “show-not-tell”. Felt like connected series of short stories. The characters and their development. The realistic teen friendships.

Scene: 🇺🇸 Set in small town near Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Perspectives: Jumping from different perspectives as needed. There’s the route manager/driver overseeing the door-to-door canvassing for six kids 12-14 years old. They are from various backgrounds, each with a different motivation for doing the paper route and a different approach to the assignment and making new friends.

Timeline: 1987. December, just before the Holidays.

🔥 Fuel: Unease. Intriguing hints relating to future events.

📖 Cred: Magical Realism

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Rusty van. Predawn gloom. Burger King. Neon beer signs. The Paperboy video game! Gingerbread. Playboy magazine. Lucky rabbit’s foot.

Coming-of-age boyhood friendships
Preteen job struggles quest
Gradually getting to know the characters (with depth)
Hook-up gone wrong
Werewolves, magicians, trolls, witches fairy tales
‘something’s off’ neighbourhood
Tales exploring racism, cultural appropriation, sapphic romance, classism, greed, and materialism.
Parallel plots connecting
Get-comfy-and-listen-in third person narration style
Reader tagging along with the characters, fly-on-the-wall
Vivid, wintery, atmospheric Midwestern Americana

Content Heads-Up: Nicotine (cigarettes). Sexual content (consenting; descriptive). Body fluids (descriptive). Loss of parent (very brief recall; as baby). Racism (double standards, bias, prejudice). Cultural appropriation (kids). Homophobic slur (historical; kids). Bullying (preteens; historical; racist and homophobic slurs; name-calling).

Rep: Black, White, Hispanic, and Indian American. Second gen American. Diverse body shapes and sizes. Cis. Hetero. Bi. Lesbian. Dark, freckled, brown, olive, and pale skin tones.

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