Dark and Shallow Lies
Author: Ginny Myers Sain
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
Publisher: Razorbill
Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain is such an impressive debut! I love everything about this book. It’s gorgeously atmospheric, with a lush setting, eerie story, and mesmerizing characters. Haunting and lyrical, this is the perfect Autumn read to kick off the Halloween season!
Thank you to Penguin Random House Canada and Penguin Teen Canada for the advanced copy provided for review.
From the publisher:
A teen girl disappears from her small town deep in the bayou, where magic festers beneath the surface of the swamp like water rot, in this chilling debut supernatural thriller for fans of Natasha Preston, Karen McManus, and Rory Power.
La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide.
This tiny town, where seventeen-year-old Grey spends her summers, is the self-proclaimed Psychic Capital of the World—and the place where Elora Pellerin, Grey's best friend, disappeared six months earlier.
Grey can't believe that Elora vanished into thin air any more than she can believe that nobody in a town full of psychics knows what happened. But as she digs into the night that Elora went missing, she begins to realize that everybody in town is hiding something—her grandmother Honey; her childhood crush Hart; and even her late mother, whose secrets continue to call to Grey from beyond the grave.
When a mysterious stranger emerges from the bayou—a stormy-eyed boy with links to Elora and the town's bloody history—Grey realizes that La Cachette's past is far more present and dangerous than she'd ever understood. Suddenly, she doesn't know who she can trust. In a town where secrets lurk just below the surface, and where a murderer is on the loose, nobody can be presumed innocent—and La Cachette's dark and shallow lies may just rip the town apart.
You can read my original Isabella's Reading Corner post on Dark and Shallow Lies here.
