The perfect October read

What better way to kick off the Halloween season (it IS it’s own season, is it not?) than reading a creepy, paranormal suspense YA book?

The Dead and the Dark had me hooked right away. We have alternating point of views from both main characters: Logan Ortiz-Woodley and Ashley Barton. Logan has just been uprooted from her family’s latest “home” to hunker down in Snakebite, Oregon. Snakebite is a place she had never heard of until her dad Brandon relocated there 6 months ago to scout locations for their ghost-hunter television series. Lo and behold when she finds out this is where both her dads, Brandon and Alejo, grew up. Suddenly the family she thought she knew seems shrouded in secrets and lies. Add this to the growing distance between her and her dad Brandon and Logan is just plain unhappy. It hurts to feel totally out of sync with the only family you have. And now she’s been plopped down into a homophobic clique-y little town that she hates.

And the town hates her and her dads right back. In fact, they are fairly convinced that the missing teen who disappeared one week after Brandon came to town is connected to Brandon. So Logan has very little choice but to team up with the town golden child, Ashley Barton, to solve this mystery of the missing teen and clear her dads names.

What ensues is an eerie hunt to find a killer. To make it more chilling a third narrator adds their voice to the story: the Dark. An evil entity that has taken possession of a body and is helping them kill. It’s heart-pounding to here the perspective of the Dark and it’s host, especially as it finds the victims.

I started this book on October 4th and finished it by midnight on the 5th. Once I started I couldn’t stop. Not to mention, I had to have the conclusion before I could sleep, I knew I’d have nightmares otherwise!

Perfect way to kick off October –