“Four years ago, five kids started a game. Only four survived.
Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors—Dax, Maddy, Emerson, and Owen—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 tunnel 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 all of them, Ian included, will 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 of Meido alive.” - taken from Goodreads.
If you can make it to the second half of the book, the story really ramps up and will draw you in. A Jumanji type game that is steeped in Japanese folklore, readers will want to know what really happened to Ian four years ago and what secrets will be uncovered as the game unfolds. I wasn’t expecting how the story ends and will probably pick up the second book to see how this series ends.
Book two, She Waits For You Beyond the Dark, is due out March 11, 2025.
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