Book Review: The Mall by Richie Tankersley Cusick

March 28, 2023

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This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham is about four friends going on a road trip to attend a music festival in the desert. What no one else realizes is that they were infected during the pandemic and are now ghouls. On the first night at the festival, Valeria goes feral and ends up killing someone and eating them. Soon after, the girls discover that ghouls are being poisoned with a drug that will cause them all to feral. The expected publication date is April 25, 2023. Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Fire for the Advanced Readers Copy of This Delicious Death . The synopsis was intriguing, so I was happy when I was approved to read this book. I received this book for free in exchange for my honest review. Just as an FYI, there were several content warnings at the beginning of this book, including but limited to alcohol consumption by minors, cannibalism, drug use and drugging, gun violence, murder, parental neglect, suicidal ideation, and transphobia. According to the

book review the mall richie tankersley cusick

He's everywhere . . . Trish thinks he's just a weird customer at Muffin-Mania where she works, but suddenly, Trish thinks she sees him everywhere. She has no one to confide in and no where to hide in The Mall by Richie Tankersley Cusick.

The Mall by Richie Tankersley Cusick is a book I read in high school, and I remember being completely creeped out by it. I swore I'd never work in a mall . . . little did I know that I would several years later. I thought I recalled who the mystery man was, but my recollection was completely wrong.

Rereading this book as an adult, I was still completely unsettled by the storyline, and I wish there had been a thunderstorm while reading it so I could have had that extra creepy feeling. It's great that a young adult book can still have the same affect on me as an adult that it did when I was a teen . . . that just shows what a talented writer Richie Tankersley Cusick is. It was even better than I remembered.

There is nothing negative I can say about the book, and I think tweens and teens of today would enjoy it, even if there is some dated material in it like there being pay phones. Five out of five stars is what I give The Mall by Richie Tankersley Cusick.

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