Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain

 

DNF @ 28%

I bought this book a while ago when it went on sale, started it, and forgot about it, which is why I was delighted when Heather offered to buddy-read it with me. You can check out her review here when the time comes, but as you can see, I called it quitsies just over a quarter of the way through, because I suck like that lol.

There were a couple reasons this didn't work for me. Psychic-themed books usually put me off from the get-go unless there's something really special about them. And I thought the intro for this book was good, as was the Louisiana setting, and the way the author wrote out the patois of the region. What I didn't like was how precious the writing got, how ridiculous some of the names of the characters were (Wrynn? Zale? Hart?), and how... well, over-wrought it all was.

Points for atmosphere and a good setting and not condescending to the YA audience but minus points for literally almost everything else.

1.5 out of 5 stars