A review by dontstopreadin
There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins

4.0

I've never read Stephanie Perkins before, but after hearing some pretty split reviews, I was super impressed with this book. It has the tense horror vibe your looking for, explores characters backgrounds well enough that you feel for them, has some good reveals that you didn't see coming (and some you might have so you still have those victories!) I can't get over how much this does feel like a horror film to be, fix into a YA book. I was quite impressed with that overall. I did also enjoy discussions from our main character on being biracial, I found that to be very apt and correct. I enjoyed the grandma, and the love interest, and that Stephanie Perkins included sex and discussions of contraception in the book as well. It overall did feel very well-rounded. I will say that one of the characters in trans and the deadname is used. Perkins has addressed this and says it will be fixed; however, that did show up in my edition of the book (meaning it wasn't revised in the US first edition printing), so hopefully this will be revised in a new printing.

Trigger warnings for: gore, blood, violence, excessive underage drinking, hazing, mentions of suicide, cyber bullying
Rep for: biracial MC, trans MC (pls. note this character's deadname is used in the text)