She appreciates that Maggie gives her agency, and she’s frustrated that Carolina keeps trying to protect her. They almost immediately end up in a tense dynamic with each other: both Caroline and Maggie are interested in Lucy, but Lucy falls for Maggie. Lucy and Carolina end up in a group with Maggie, a psychology student writing a paper about all the fascinating characters at this retreat. (Or maybe it was an accident? She can’t remember.) Carolina, the other point of view character, has come to try to assure herself she’s nothing like the Cloudkiss Killer, even though she may have killed her boyfriend. She’s gone on this retreat not out a love of true crime - a genre that’s profited off and sensationalized her trauma - but because she hopes to find closure. Lucy only narrowly escaped being one of the Cloudkiss Killer’s victims, and she was the last person to see him alive. As the retreat continues, though, it begins to seem like the danger isn’t past… It’s a sapphic YA horror/thriller book set at a true crime podcast event where listeners compete to try to find the unrecovered bones of a serial killer. Amazon Affiliate Link | Affiliate Linkĭuring October this year, I tried to pack my TBR with seasonal, Halloween-adjacent reads, and The Restless Dark looked like the perfect match.
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