Another day, another thriler/mystery (because, who doesn't need to be even more paranoid--and what's more terrifying than a serial killer? a serial killer praying on your greatest fears). Here's "The Haunting" by Natasha Preston.
["Haunted by the past . . .
Penny's trying to forget about her ex, Nash. His father was arrested for the brutal murder of four teenagers on Devil's Night last year. Penny's parents have forbidden her to have anything to do with Nash or his family. It's hard not to think of what happened as spooky season gets underway--but she's trying.
That stops when she goes to the Halloween store with her friends to find a costume. What she finds instead is ripped from a horror movie: a girl from school bleeding out on the floor of a dressing room. Stabbed.
Is a copycat killer on the loose? The adults are saying no. But Penny knows better."]
I feel horrible that Nash and his sister were shunned by the adults in this town (and all of their friends). Just because their father was convinced for the murders a year ago doesn't mean they should be ostracized and villainized.
And poor Penny. I mean, it's the genre, but these past few narrators really have people hyper focused on stalking and hurting them.
I was both right about the killer and so, so wrong. I just...so many twists and turns. And the fact that the last page, the last lines, ends in a cliffhanger and we don't know shit!?!?! Who's alive? Who's dead? Who will make it? Who got stabbed? Who got shot? NO ONE KNOWS.
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