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A review by bookishtrav
The Dead of Summer by Ryan La Sala
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Thanks to NetGalley and Scholastic for allowing me to read this ARC of The Dead of Summer by Ryan La Sala.
This horror had a great cast of characters and I was able to feel such a strong connection to them. Right down to the bachelorette party as a whole who is just one big character morphed together, we know how annoying that can sometimes be.
Ollie and his mom Gracie’s relationship seemed to be frayed because she wanted to see the positive in the world after fighting a cancer diagnosis over the last year. Ollie, like most teen boys decided to take the world onto his shoulders and all of these decisions have lasting effects on the story.
When he left he also shut out his besties Bash & Elisa throughout the story they’re trying to find their way back to the way their friendship was before Ollie left, but literal disaster keeps interrupting the argument between Ollie & Elisa, repeatedly. The universe literally saying hey this isn’t important right now.
The weepers were actually terrifying the water zombies as I kept calling them throughout. The book were so beautiful yet scary at the same time because the ocean is scary and that’s all I could think throughout this entire story, the ocean is coming to attack us. The visiuals of slow yet beautifully scary coral and sea creatures walking on land was so fun.
the villain(s) in this story Has this thought that they are the savior of this town but like man are they wrong.
I’m happy I know this is book one since the book ends on a cliffhanger, but I really need a few big questions answered. First, Sam seems like he’s set up to be a very important character and, much like Gracie & Willy(WendyPretendy) his presence is felt through out the book, I still don’t fully trust him, but it doesn’t matter or does it? Second Ollie baby you good girl?!
I would definitely recommend this to anyone who likes found footage horror, the book does a great job of tying in first hand accounts with interviews at a later date.
Safe to say Ryan La Sala has done it again.
(Poor Dakota 😜)
This horror had a great cast of characters and I was able to feel such a strong connection to them. Right down to the bachelorette party as a whole who is just one big character morphed together, we know how annoying that can sometimes be.
When he left he also shut out his besties Bash & Elisa throughout the story they’re trying to find their way back to the way their friendship was before Ollie left, but literal disaster keeps interrupting the argument between Ollie & Elisa, repeatedly. The universe literally saying hey this isn’t important right now.
The weepers were actually terrifying the water zombies as I kept calling them throughout. The book were so beautiful yet scary at the same time because the ocean is scary and that’s all I could think throughout this entire story, the ocean is coming to attack us. The visiuals of slow yet beautifully scary coral and sea creatures walking on land was so fun.
the villain(s) in this story Has this thought that they are the savior of this town but like man are they wrong.
I’m happy I know this is book one since the book ends on a cliffhanger, but I really need a few big questions answered. First, Sam seems like he’s set up to be a very important character and, much like Gracie & Willy(WendyPretendy) his presence is felt through out the book, I still don’t fully trust him, but it doesn’t matter or does it? Second Ollie baby you good girl?!
I would definitely recommend this to anyone who likes found footage horror, the book does a great job of tying in first hand accounts with interviews at a later date.
Safe to say Ryan La Sala has done it again.
(Poor Dakota 😜)