A review by kayleighnichola
Penpal by Dathan Auerbach

3.0

I just finished Dathan Auerbach’s Bad Man and had high expectations for penpal considering all the hype it gets from booktok. I was kind of let down. I found myself bored at times. The people who say this is one of the creepiest books they’ve read clearly haven’t read anything truly intense. I kept expecting major things to happen but really, not a lot did. The ending was a little creepy, but not in the sense that it was scary, just that the man himself obviously has issues. I think that if i has read penpal first, i wouldn’t have read Bad Man. I’m glad i read them the opposite way. Overall kind of disappointed.