Week 10 Review: Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear

From Goodreads:

A painfully average teen's life is upended by a magical apocalypse in this darkly atmospheric and sweepingly romantic novel perfect for fans of The Raven Boys, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The Rest of Us Just Live Here.

High school is hard enough to survive without an apocalypse to navigate.

Sid Spencer has always been the most normal girl in her abnormal hometown, a tourist trap built over one of the fault lines that seal magic away from the world. Meanwhile, all Sid has to deal with is hair-ruining humidity, painful awkwardness, being one of four Asians in town, and her friends dumping her when they start dating each other—just days after one of the most humiliating romantic rejections faced by anyone, ever, in all of history.

Then someone kills one of the Guardians who protect the seal. The earth rips open and unleashes the magic trapped inside. Monsters crawl from the ground, no one can enter or leave, and the man behind it all is roaming the streets with a gang of violent vigilantes. Suddenly, Sid's life becomes a lot less ordinary. When she finds out her missing brother is involved, she joins the remaining Guardians, desperate to find him and close the fault line for good.

Fighting through hordes of living corpses and uncontrollable growths of forest, Sid and a ragtag crew of would-be heroes are the only thing standing between their town and the end of the world as they know it. Between magic, murderers, and burgeoning crushes, Sid must survive being a perfectly normal girl caught in a perfectly abnormal apocalypse.

Only—how can someone so ordinary make it in such an extraordinary world?

My Review:
I had a fantastic time listening to this book! The whole premise of magic having been locked down, but in these towns, they have Guardians who protect, but theoretically could open the magic up again-and having that happen, yeah, I couldn't get enough! 

I do wish I could've read a bit physically, just to get a sense for the style, because there were a few times where it felt like it jumped, and I was a bit confused about what was going on, and I think I would've better understood if I could've read it physically. 

Sid is adopted, and that sense of identity is a pretty big part of the plot, of who she is, where she belongs, what she shares with others, since while she loves her family, she doesn't see herself reflected in them. So I loved what that added to the story.

The whole thing with the magic and the guardians, and the guy who wants all the power, it was almost superhero-esque, but make it the world-ending as we know it of dystopian, which was really entertaining. Plus Sid and the gang were all great to read, and I loved their different dynamics! 

I really enjoyed this book and I can't wait to read more by Robin Wasley! 

Author: Robin Wasley
Read: March 6th, 202 
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a DAC Book and a SAC 2024 Book!
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: February 27th 2024

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars