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NO.

Homophobia with cute kid foil 🙄

So Sam incredibly resentful with nothing to back it up becomes Sam was badly assaulted but should 'move past it already'....this book, these characters, feel off.

That's a little of unexplained resentment.
Plus weird setup.
Plus grief, but that's kinda forgettable.

The book uses a lot of passive voice, even for something the first person narrator does. It's strange.
Also, how hard is it to keep the times straight? They are supposed to spent 8 days in the house and in the next sentence it's a month?
And we're never told what Cody did to Sam. Is the book seriously going to be like "Yelp, maybe I'm mistaken about having being bullied all my school life"?

I don't get it. Is the town gas-lighting Sam? Is the book gas-lighting me? This is kinda weird that Sam felt Cody was such a big bully all his school life and literally no one else was seeing it. Not his friends, not even his mentor and Cody's mom.

Well this took a turn... Going to keep reading and see if it works.

Ok, that present tense story telling us difficult, as usual. Sam, one of the M/C's acts like a 5 year old, but apart from that I am not complaining so far...