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narwhalmeg 's review for:
To Break a Covenant
by Alison Ames
God this book was so good and completely out of nowhere! I have been eating up YA horror because I’m a big baby and can’t handle adult horror at my ripe old age of 26, and this felt like a perfect horror read. It had my favorite things: gay girls, old deserted town, blood pacts, a cheeky Welcome To Nightvale reference, etc. so I was pretty hooked from the beginning. It wasn’t overly gory, but it had its gore moments. It wasn’t overly scary, but it had its tense, atmospheric moments. The creepy scenes down in the mines and in their dreams were *so* atmospheric and really got me tense without scaring me so bad I had to stop reading. It was an excellent balance.
Also, the humor in this is amazing. It feels like the dry, witty writing you’d see in adult romcoms but with teenage girls! The one thing I will say is that I think the girls are meant to be 16, but they read more like 21 year olds. Which doesn’t break immersion or anything, but they talk about PSATs and then drink whiskey tea.
The friendship between the girls was amazing to read about, the relationship between the two main girls was so sweet, the father-daughter bond between Piper and her dad was so nice; if you took out the fact that there was a paranormal mine trying to kill all the residents and visitors of the town this would be the most sickeningly sweet gay love/friendship story ever and I loved it.
Also, the humor in this is amazing. It feels like the dry, witty writing you’d see in adult romcoms but with teenage girls! The one thing I will say is that I think the girls are meant to be 16, but they read more like 21 year olds. Which doesn’t break immersion or anything, but they talk about PSATs and then drink whiskey tea.
The friendship between the girls was amazing to read about, the relationship between the two main girls was so sweet, the father-daughter bond between Piper and her dad was so nice; if you took out the fact that there was a paranormal mine trying to kill all the residents and visitors of the town this would be the most sickeningly sweet gay love/friendship story ever and I loved it.