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“Cat Winter’s debut novel is creepy good.”
— Boston Globe
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“One of the creepiest (in a good way) covers of the season! What’s inside, historical YA set at the time of the Spanish influenza, is equally haunting.”
— Atlantic Wire
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“In this book, the passion of first love and the paranoia of the times are realistically and movingly rendered.”
— Oregonian
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“Winters’ masterful debut novel is an impressively researched marriage of the tragedies of wartime, the 1918 flu epidemic, the contemporaneous Spiritualism craze, and a chilling love story and mystery.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“Winters deftly combines mystery, ghost story, historical fiction, and romance. Excellent pacing and deliciously creepy descriptions.”
— School Library Journal (starred review)
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“More than anything, this is a story of the breaking point between sanity and madness, delivered in a straightforward and welcoming teen voice.”
— Booklist (starred review)
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“Winters strikes just the right balance between history and ghost story, neatly capturing the tenor of the times, as growing scientific inquiry collided with heightened spiritualist curiosity.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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“This engrossing combination of historical fiction, ghost story, psychological thriller, and straight-up whodunit moves between genres with stunning ease, maximizing the tropes of each to satisfying effect.”
— Bulleting of the Center for Children’s Books