From there, layers upon layers upon layers of this mystery unfold, leaving the reader unsure of who to trust and unsure of what to believe. Grey, her best friend and “twin flame”, comes home for the summer determined to find out what happened to her. She seems to have just vanished out of thin air.

A teen girl, Elora, has gone missing, and there is no trace of her. I did not leave this book disappointed, and I know you won’t too.įrom page one, we know there is something off about the town of La Cachette. Not only does it have magical intrigue, shifty characters you’re unsure of, and a plot that just keeps you turning page after page, but it also has the emotional satisfaction you look for in a thriller. Set on a backdrop of magical Louisiana, Dark and Shallow Lies has every element of the perfect young adult thriller. Thank you so much to TBR & Beyond Tours and Razorbill for this opportunity! 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 Suddenly, she doesn’t know who she can trust. 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. 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. 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. 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. La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide. 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.

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