i love the description of gossip girl x get out; it doesn’t become incredibly clear where some of those influences come in until later in the book, and it has a slightly slow build, but once i hit around 50% things started to really get crazy. i just kept envisioning all the bad people with those creepy jordan peele smiles and it is….yikes. i think this is incredibly effective horror, because nothing unbelievable happens for the most part, and while there is violence, it’s not the scariest part….it’s chilling because of all those intricate aggressions we see through the entire book. 

and hearing the author’s note at the end saying she started this draft when she was 18??? WOW. i can only imagine how her voice is going to grow if this is where she’s starting so young.