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3.6
Sara Farizan
Edge-of-your-seat YA horror perfect for fans of Stranger Things Growing up, Cori, Maz, and Sam were inseparable best friends, sharing their love for Halloween, arcade games, and one another. Now it’s 1992, Sam has been missing for five years, and Cori and Maz aren’t speaking anymore. How could they be, when Cori is sure Sam is dead and Maz thinks he may have been kidnapped by a supernatural pinball machine? These days, all Maz wants to do is party, buy CDs at Sam Goody, and run away from his past. Meanwhile, Cori is a homecoming queen, hiding her abiding love of horror movies and her queer self under the bubblegum veneer of a high school queen bee. But when Sam returns—still twelve years old while his best friends are now seventeen—Maz and Cori are thrown back together to solve the mystery of what really happened to Sam the night he went missing. Beneath the surface of that mystery lurk secrets the friends never told one another, then and now. And Sam’s is the darkest of all . . . Award-winning author of If You Could Be Mine and Here to Stay Sara Farizan delivers edge-of-your-seat terror as well as her trademark referential humor, witty narration, and insightful characters.
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Author
Sara Farizan
Pages
272
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Published Date
2022-08-30
ISBN
1643750801 9781643750804
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"A great pick for fans of Stranger Things and Gravity Falls. This book really feels like an obscure horror film, and some parts were quite unexpected and edge of your seat. The 90s references were so fun and I loved the queer representation. But it had a slow start (about page 76 for major plot stuff to happen), luckily it picked up after that, and the book was a quick read (under 300 pages.) And Sam acted like such an immature character. I get that he is 12, but a 12 year old shouldn’t act that immature… but the author makes up for it using [REDACTED SPOLIER]. This fun, short horror novel is a great pick for Halloween reading."