Find Him Where You Left Him Dead
Ratings5
Average rating3.7
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Ratings5
Average rating3.7
AT DAWN HE’LL BE GONE AND YOU’LL BE HERE FOREVER.
Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived.
Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors—Owen, Madeline, Emerson, and Dax—have reunited for one strange and terrible reason: they’ve been summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead.
Together they return to the place where their friendship ended with one goal: find Ian and bring him home. So they restart the deadly game they never finished—an innocent card-matching challenge called Meido. A game without instructions.
As soon as they begin, they're dragged out of their reality and into an eerie hellscape of Japanese underworlds, more horrifying than even the darkest folktales that Owen's grandmother told him. There, they meet Shinigami, an old wise woman who explains the rules:
They have one night to complete seven challenges or they'll all be stuck in this world forever.
Once inseparable, the survivors now can’t stand each other, but the challenges demand they work together, think quickly, and make sacrifices—blood, clothes, secrets, memories, and worse.
And once again, not everyone will make it out alive.
Series
1 primary bookDeath Games is a 1-book series first released in 2023 with contributions by Kristen Simmons.
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Was a little out there for my taste. Did not feel like taking notes on the monsters and would have liked a glossary or something of the legend of them
Rating: 3.25 leaves out of 5-Characters: 3/5 -Cover: 4/5-Story: 2.75/5-Writing: 2.75/5Genre: Horror, Mythology, Fantasy, Paranormal, Thriller, YA-Horror: 1/5-Fantasy: 5/5-Paranormal: 2.5/5-Mythology: 4/5-Thriller: 2.5/5-YA: 5/5Type: AudiobookWorth?: Eh, I guessHated Disliked Meh It Was Okay Liked Loved FavoritedWant to thank Netgalley and publishers for giving me the chance to read this book.Many who know me know I don't care for YA novels, but I have found that horror YA can be actually good. This book wasn't bad but it wasn't great either. I liked the concept of the story and what the whole point of it is. There are two settings to this story and it just doesn't mesh well at all. There were also some subject matters in this book that I didn't agree with at all.
CAWPILE SCORE
C-7
A-8
W-8
P-9
I-8
L-8
E-8
TOTAL-8.14/10
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CAWPILE
<b>Characters</b>
Meido the land
Shinigami and the Yokai
Madeline
Owen- Drama play
Dax the yokai, very interesting after you know his secret and go back and look at his chapters
Ian
Emerson Shut herself in
Interesting way they all took Ian’s “Death”
<b>Atmosphere</b>
Just the right amount of creepiness in beginning for me.
Doesn’t change from horror to fantasy, but I felt less scared the farther I went.
<b>Writing</b>
I complete fell for all 3 twists, this should be the book of twists
Ian is the Oni, Tests are not positive not don’t show fear, but show fear. And Dax is a Demon and that the empress wants to destroy the world, which isn’t a huge twist.
<b>Plot</b>
Good plot, lots of twists none of which I saw coming except empress at very end is getting out.
I like that at the end. Their lives aren’t magically fixed, they are still where they were, but now without guilt.
<b>Investment</b>
Sucks you in fast. Invested in figuring out what’s happening. What exactly this new world is.
<b>Logic</b>
Internally consistent with what little I know of Yokai Lore.
<b>Enjoyment</b>
I don’t normally enjoy horror, but I did like this book perhaps because its YA.
<b>Misc</b>
Dax luring more and more people into the game. As a yokai. Getting his engimono. Getting it stabbed back into him.
Tests of loyalty. Fear. Cowardice. Lies. Wounded hearts. Honor. And finally, bravery
Debut Novel
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