Thank you to Netgalley/publisher/author for an advanced copy of this book!

This was a weird one and I really enjoyed it!! It was creepy but with great characters!

There were times I felt like not much happened outside of the main house however I was still eager to see what happened! I loved both the main characters and would deffo recommend this to my friends!

Also the cover.. stunning!!

The cover grabbed me from the very beginning. This was a quick and fun read. It was different than books I have read in the past. The story was so different and the characters are definitely memorable. Such a fun read!

This is an interesting read. I don’t think I’ve read one like it in a while. It was interesting, but at times I felt like nothing was going on and then at other times, I felt like a lot was happening all at once. I did get a little confused at times, but I was invested so continued on. I would say that I wasn’t expecting that ending though.

For starters, the cover art is so stunning, and the story inside is beautifully crafted, and very spooky. This is unlike anything else I have ever read. I love how well it flows, and how well the dialogue between Josie, Skelly, and Sue is written. This is an engaging read from start to finish!


Thank you to the publisher, author, and Netgalley for the chance to read and review this e-ARC in exchange for my honest thoughts.

The book is about Josie, Po, Skelly and Sue. Josie is grieving the lose of her father and the end of her marriage and holds herself up in her house, with vodka; she's a bit of a mess. Po, is her cute little pup keeping Josie company. Sue is her nosie neighbor. And Skelly... just the talking skeleton that lives on Josies back fence.

I really enjoyed the interactions between Josie and Skelly. And the atmosphere of this book was really creepy, and cool. While there wasn't much going on outside of her house and backyard I was completely invested in what would happen next. The ended was not something I saw coming which I enjoyed.

I always enjoy werid stories, but this one I wanted to give me more weird, bazaar, out there things than I was getting. In the end I did give it 3.5 because it captivated me the whole way through.

Thank you to NetGally for the eACR

I give every book 50 pages to see if I want to go ahead with the story or, dnf it and get on with the next book. This book put me off on a 20 page line. May be this book is not for me.

Thank you for the eARC, Tiffany Meuret and NetGalley.

I didn't really understand what was going on because I mentally checked out with all of the repetition. I like weirder stories, but this just wasn't for me.

This was a strange one … I’m not even sure how to review it. I didn’t hate it, but I also didn’t like it. The writing style was a bit different, the story was decent but slightly odd, and it just wasn’t the best horror book I’ve read. Quite average, thus the three-star rating.

a v weird book!!! the premise kind of set me up for what i was expecting but i was still surprised at all the twists and turns it took and i really enjoyed the writing!!

•Quick Read
•Weird story
•repetitive

Main character Josie is recently divorced. Grieving her deceased father and living alone with her pet Chihuahua named Po. Josie has her own online business where she deals with her customers’ customers. She’s pretty introverted and enjoys her life of isolation until a mysterious talking skeleton arrives in her backyard almost at the same time a new neighbor moves in.

Has Josie‘s drinking gotten so out of control she’s hallucinating the mysterious crap happening in her own backyard? What kind of advice can her you creepy neighbor give her? And why the heck is it happening to her?

This book was definitely one of my more stranger reads. I personally wouldn’t go as far as to re-read it but I’m glad to have read it through once as my curiosity got the best of me. Also must say the cover is adorably awesome it even features little Po! Overall a decent story and quick enough read it’s not much wasted time if you end up not enjoying it.

A great unexpected read, not like anything I had ever read before. Really got my imagination going. Look forward to reading more from this author!

Reading this feels like incessant head noise that you can't escape. I didn't see the point of the story, nor did I enioy it at all.

Thank you netgalley and the publisher for my copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I thought it was going to be scary, but it wasn't. I did enjoy it though. And the cover is gorgeous.

Josie recently divorced grieving the death of her father has caged inside her family home and copes (or not) by drinking vast amounts of alcohol. However, when Josie wakes up one morning to find a shrub has sprouted things take a twist and her life becomes a lot more complicated.

This was a strange quite short novel but very compelling I don't know that I would class this a horror for those horror fans out there but this was a gripping read none the less.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of the novel in exchange for an honest review.

the plot wasn’t particularly well developed but i enjoyed the prose and the characters. i will be thinking about this book for a while.

Wasn't that scary at all but I assumed we were dealing the inner turmoils of the protagonist in the form of a talking skeleton. I found this a good read, the pacing was okay and I liked it overall.

This is the sort of speculative introspective fiction I'm here for. Grief, trauma, introversion, disassociation AND a talking skeleton? Sign me the heck up.

Thank you NetGalley for the e-ARC.

Well I wanted to read this because of the cover and the title.
I thought this would be like the old movie Little shop of horrors.

But this was not at al what I expected. I have no idea what I read or what it was about. I'm totally fucking clueless.

I have a hard time getting why people rated it so high on goodreads, have I missed something???

A cross between urban fantasy and Magical realism, this book had me hooked since the beginning.

Our protagonist is an alcoholic with a complicated personality, dealing with tons of suppressed issues. She finds herself face to face with a skeleton much to her disdain, in her very own backyard! What do you think the skeleton wants? Is it evil or good?

Told with much sarcasm and sadness this tale will stick with most of us. We'll find bits of us in the protagonist and it'll break us. I'm not sure for better or worse!

I do wish the chapters were shorter and there were more characters. I'm still a bit unsure what Sue's point was in the entire story, some more explanation would have been insightful. The writing was fresh and witty, I was chuckling at every turn, which was unusual for me! Overall everyone should take a chance on this story 💙

⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

The cover caught my eye - very intriguing. I went into this blind, purposefully avoiding reading the synopsis or any reviews beforehand. I was delighted to find a compelling tale, complete with a chihuahua named Po. (I happen to love Chihuahuas and the description of his little chi daily activities was spot on.)

A talking skeleton, a mysterious neighbor, and an alcoholic self-loathing protagonist is a bit of a strange combination but it works. Some reviewers said they were disappointed because it wasn't "horror." To me it's more magical realism and there was a melancholy to it that made me reflect on my own life. I enjoyed this very much. It's a quick read and such a pleasant way to spend a day.

Highly recommended!