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Average rating3.5
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.