e-ALC, 08:23:28
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
Release Date: August 11, 2026
Published by: Simon & Schuster Audio
Read from: August 16-17, 2026
Stand-alone
Source: Libro FM (I also received an ARC copy of this from the publisher. This did nothing to influence my review.)
Content Warning: Physical Abuse, Toxic Relationship, Medical Content, Medical Trauma, Car Accident, Mental Illness, Murder
For Readers of: Audio, Catchy Title, Contemporary, Sparkly Cover, Mystery, Realistic Fiction, Thrillers, Racial/Ethnic Diversity, YAKnives Out meets Never Have I Ever in this hilarious and twisty young adult mystery-comedy about an Indian American teen whose family reunion at a lavish manor falls into chaos after her grandma is attacked.
Nothings brings family together like attempted murder.
There are three things Jayshree Devi can count on happening at her annual family 1) her cousins will forget she exists, 2) her aunts will try to set her up, and 3) her uncles will get into a fight. What she doesn’t expect? An accident that lands her grandmother in a coma, throwing the family—and their matriarch’s sizeable fortune—into chaos.
When Jay discovers Grand Mom’s “accident” might not have been so accidental after all, she’ll have to dig through decades of secrets to find the truth. With the help of her (annoyingly perky) cousins and one of their (annoyingly hot) friends, Jay finds herself knee-deep in a mystery that’s even more tangled than her family tree.
But the closer Jay gets to answers, the closer she gets to finding her place amongst the relatives who once felt so distant. With Grand Mom’s life and fortune hanging in the balance, can Jay save her family and maybe hook up with a hottie while she’s at it?
*MY THOUGHTS*
This was one of the weirdest books I’ve read in a long time. I mean I read the synopsis and knew it was going to be weird, but I didn’t’ know it was going to be THAT weird. Who has a running joke about their grandma like that?
Ok so the writing style was weird af to me. First of all a running joke about killing your grandma. Between the whole family? And then trying to find the person in the family who might have actually tried to kill her? Idk, I have a dark, morbid sense of humor, but this just wasn’t funny to me? Not gonna lie, I kept thinking of the crab from Moana “I ate my grandma!” lmao But it just seemed weird to me. And it made it even more weird because the whole family was weird to each other. Idk it just didn’t sit right with me.
The mystery was ok. It was the only reason I didn’t DNF it. I had to know why tf someone would do that. I remember not even bothering to try to guess who it was because I didn’t exactly care. I mainly cared about the why. And let me just say now, that was extra shitty. And all the things that person did because of this problem that they created was egregious. I’m not talking they put stuff in front of her car and let a tire blow or something, I’m talking like hit man hired kind of thing.
This just wasn’t my cup of tea. I was riveted to the mystery, but that was it. I think if there had been anything else weird that happened I would have DNF’ed. This might be funny for someone else tho, so I still say go for it. I hope y’all enjoy it more than I did.
Overall, I give this
