This bookish meme tells the blogosphere what we’re waiting patiently (and sometimes not so patiently) for! It’s hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine!
An evil video game
A lying Twitch streamer
A demon hungry for her secrets
After spending the summer wracked with guilt about causing the accident that killed her little sister, ambitious gamer and chronic liar Viv returns to Twitch streaming. She never told her parents the truth about the accident, but she hopes that maybe making it big in streaming and giving the money to them is penance enough for her mistakes.
The weekend before school starts, Viv finds the perfect horror game to make her Twitch comeback, and during an offline practice run, an NPC asks Viv for a secret. She decides to tell them the truth about her sister’s death since a game could never share her secret―in doing so, she accidentally welcomes a demonic mimic into her life.
No one believes Viv when she tells them about her evil doppelganger. Viv has lied to get her best friend’s sympathy and has spread rumors for attention, so why should anyone trust her now? The only person who believes her is Ash, a cute social outcast whom Viv once bullied. In trying to clear her name and kill the mimic, Viv discovers that her lies have hurt people who never deserved it, herself included.
Published by: Page Street YA
Expected Publication: September 17, 2024
Why I’m Waiting: Yooooo I can’t wait to read this one! All I needed to see was a social media platform, the word horror, and the word demon lol I am so easy smh lol But it’s fine. The last demon book I read from Page Street YA was really really good and I can’t wait to see what this one is going to be like! I also thought about using this in teen book clubs for October alongside a program for Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Hopefully there won’t be any demons that come alive, BUT hopefully this can be used as a way to show that there’s no “secrets” online.
What about you? Will you be waiting on this one too? Have you read her first one? Let me know in the comments!
Ooh nice!! This is totally new to me but sounds positively frightening! I mean there are enough horrors with social media that I feel like teenagers don’t quite understand these days, so throwing in a demonic force might be a good way to go about it! Definitely keeping an eye on this one! Hope you love it and that you can use it for your program in October!
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