Find Him Where You Left Him Dead

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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I will be talking about it on Libromancy https://libromancy.podbean.com/