I don’t want to give away too much about the plot, but I will say that Machado nails a suspenseful story that brilliantly explores consent, identity, and friendship. After waking up in the cinema with mud on their shoes and having no memory of the movie they just watched, they suspect that something sinister is going on, and they start to dig in to secrets that the town has held for decades. People live in the town only because they are stuck in the past, or because they have nowhere else to go. Machado can do no wrong as far as I’m concerned, she’s a stunning writer.Įl and Vee are best friends living in the town of Shudder-To-Think, Pennsylvania, where an underground fire has been raging in the mines for decades. I went into this comic TP completely blind, having picked it up only because I knew Carmen Maria Machado was the writer behind it. If creepy settings, queer POC characters, and reckoning with sexual assault are your thing, this is your book. TW for the book: rape, sexual assault, stereotypical red-headed pimpled misogynistic teenage boys.
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