SYNOPSIS

Janet Chow is witnessing Madam Pamela rise to stardom for her supposed psychic abilities. Janet recognizes Pam as an old classmate, and maybe nemesis, and is tired of everyone falling for her psychic tricks, especially as Pam begins to countdown an apocalyptic event. Janet wants to use her journalistic path to write an expose about how Pam is a fraud.

What could happen?

RECAP AND REVIEW

Thank you NetGalley, the author, and RDS Publishing/Raw Dog Screaming Press for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are mine.

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This is a 100ish page novella told in the first person of Janet. As the story goes on, we learn how unreliable she is as a narrator.

From my eyes, Janet is bitter, and maybe a little jealous of Madam Pamela’s success. Janet doesn’t seem content with where she is in life. In her eyes, Pam has always been the villain in her story, and she doesn’t appreciate how tuned in the general public is to her charades.

Something about this book kept my interest and me on edge. I got an unnerving feeling that only continued until the open-ended ending. There’s detailed descriptions of gore, suicide, and supernatural elements that aided in the prickly feelings I got.

Though parts of the end and the reveals were shocking, it unraveled pretty quickly and felt like a skimming of the surface in some aspects, especially between Pam and Janet, and I wanted a little more there.

This book also ends without any real resolve and some parts left up to interpretation, which I liked overall, but it also made me scream.

Read for

🔮 Novella

🔮 Unreliable Narrator

🔮 Psychic and Supernatural Abilities

🔮 Revenge Story

🔮 Horror and Dark Humor

🔮 Journalistic Exposé

OVERALL

Overall, I give this a 4 out of 5 stars. It’s outside of my usual genre, but it kept my attention and I wanted to know how it would all play out. This is definitely for horror and gore lovers, but also be warned that this turns out to be a dark story with deep trauma that is uncovered.