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Scooby-Doo meets Riverdale meets Nancy Drew meets Bad Machinery...need I say more? But I will, anyway. Things I love: smart, level-headed teens not given to stereotype--especially the football player brothers, who exhibit some "jock" characteristics but are fleshed out as individuals; a mystery that flirts with the supernatural but is not wholly given over to it, a complex plot that resolves enough of the mystery to satisfy the reader, but leaves plenty of dangling threads for volume two (not ev
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I adored the tone and illustrations of this graphic, as well as the fact that the town is one of the characters. But this isn't really a mystery you can "solve" using logic--the mystery itself is a bit all over the place for my taste. I've read other reviews comparing it to something David Lynch would dream up. Yep, that makes sense. I've always been a fan of the mood and images he creates, but feel like he comes to his stories by throwing a ton of things against the wall and seeing what sticks.
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May 08, 2018
Robyn
marked it as to-read
