A review by emmalyn_reads
The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Logan Ortiz-Woodly, daughter of TV's famous gay Ghost Hunters - ParaSpectors, has just been ripped from her LA home to move to...where was it again? Oh, right...Snakebite. However, once her and her fathers arrive, things start getting dicey. Teenagers are disappearing, some are being found dead (okay, a lot are being found dead) and the hostile little town has their eyes set on who it is: her fathers. Having been run from the town previously, after a horrific accident, the fathers aren't any happier to be back than Logan is to be here, either. When Logan meets Ashely, the local missing kids girlfriend, she teams up with her to figure out who is doing this, before it's too late. Courtney weaves a dark, eerie tale about acceptance, just how much a small town can harbor and hide (about your friends, your family and ultimately yourself), running from your past, and just how far a father in grief will go to stop the pain while sprinkling in a bit of ghostly apparitions, horror, mystery and LGBTQ+ themes. 

I unfortunately don't have a PLAYLIST nor FAVORITE QUOTES from this book. I did thoroughly enjoy it but, I read it while I was on a grippy sock vacay and that made it a little hard to fully immerse into it as I usually do.