Week 11 Review: The Bad Ones

From Goodreads:
Goddess, goddess, count to five
In the morning, who's alive?

In the course of a single winter's night, four people vanish without a trace across a small town.

Nora's estranged best friend, Becca, is one of the lost. As Nora tries to untangle the truth of Becca's disappearance, she discovers a darkness in her town's past, as well as a string of coded messages Becca left for her to unravel. These clues lead Nora to a piece of local folklore: a legendary goddess of forgotten origins who played a role in Nora and Becca's own childhood games...

An arresting, crossover horror fantasy threaded with dark magic, THE BAD ONES is a poison-pen love letter to semi-toxic best friendship, the occult power of childhood play and artistic creation, and the razor-thin line between make-believe and belief.

My Review:

I loved reading this book! I love The Hazel Wood series, and this book was just a bit strange as well, but not quite so much, with a urban legend of a goddess and the Goddess Game, and two best friends, and the frantic time after one of them disappears amongst other disappearances the same night, and the trail she left behind.

The way that we start the book off was really great, of these three different people, who we don't know why this is happening to them, or really what is, but something was. Something did. And then we follow Nora in the aftermath-and her friend Becca, is also missing. It was such a compelling story! 

While we were following alongside Nora in the present, we were also following along with Becca for key moments of the past, that lead to everything happening, which gave us more and more answers as the book went along.

This book really stirred up feelings of indignation. Because of the actions of one person, and who they killed, lead to all of this. I mean, they were the bad ones that, after that, were dying, but the root cause? But that just made the book more complicated and I loved it. 

This was a fantastic read and I can't wait to read more by Melissa Albert! 

Author: Melissa Albert 
Read: February 15th, 2024
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Love her writing, and it's a SAC 2024 Book and a WoW Book! 
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Published: February 20th 2024

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars