Review: Find Him Where You Left Him Dead

Find Him Where You Left Him Dead by Kristen Simmons
Publisher: Tor Teen
Release date: October 10, 2023
Library purchase: I'm almost mad I have to wait. Purchase for sure

Synopsis

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 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 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.

Review

I'm always here for a thriller, so in all honesty, the titles of this book sold me.

Four kids lied about the day their friends disappeared for years ago. When they all start seeing a ghostly form of him on the anniversary of his disappearance it triggers a game they never knew they were playing and that they certainly are prepared to finish.

This book was all over the place. In the best way possible. There were rule, ghosts, cannibalism, and so many LIES. This is a book you reach for when you've entered your spooky book Era.

Thank you to the publisher for sending me a copy of this book!