Monday, October 17, 2022

Suburban Hell

Suburban Hell by Maureen Kilmer, 336 pages

The PTA moms of Winchester, Illinois, have just broken ground on their club house/She Shed when one of their number, Liz, starts acting a bit odd, lazing around and being rude to her friends where she was previously kind and always active. While some of the more perfectionist moms of the group pass it off as "more of Liz's substandard life," Liz's close friend Amy is convinced that something demonic is at play. With the reluctant help of her other pals Melissa and Jess, Amy starts investigating and nothing, even rogue household appliances and rotting-corpse smells, will deter them from saving their friend.

This is a beach read for spooky season. It's light, it's fluffy, and it's funny. I appreciated the snark and the "power of friendships" vein that runs through the book, though I expected the scary stuff to be actually scary. It wasn't. But if you go into this book expecting fluff and fun and nothing more, it's plenty enjoyable.

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