A review by libscote
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

3.0

I found this one a little hard to get through. Some of that is due to my fear of horror books, so I didn't want to read it before bed, which is my primary reading time. Some of it was just me having problems with Marigold, although I think those are more problems me-as-an-adult has, rather than teen-me would have (and to tell you why would be a spoiler). Mari's family has an almost too-good-to-be-true situation where her mom is given an artist's residency and a free house for the family to live in, if they relocate to Maplewood. Weird stuff keeps happening in her house, which helps aggravate Mari's anxiety around bedbugs and in general. The tension building in the story is excellent.