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Gabi should be thrilled to be visiting his best friend for the summer. But with its mansions, country clubs, and Ruth’s terrible new boyfriend, Frost Thurston, the Hamptons is the last place he wants to be. And then Gabi witnesses a woman being dragged under the ocean by what looks like a tentacle . . .

When no one—not the police or anyone else—seems to care, Gabi starts to wonder if maybe the beachside town’s bad vibes are more real than he thought. As the number of “accidental” deaths begins to climb, the Thurston family name keeps rising to the top. And what’s worse is that all the signs point to something lurking beneath the water—something with a hunger for blood.

Can Gabi figure out how the two are intertwined and put an end to the string of deaths . . . before becoming the water’s next victim?

Short and Sweet Review

Gabriel is staying with his best friend Ruth in the Hamptons for the summer and while most people would be excited about that Gabi prefers to stay indoors with his Funko collection and books. When Gabi makes it to the Hamptons and witnesses a woman bring dragged into the ocean and no one around seems to bat an eye Gabi knows something is off. The number off deaths increases as the summer goes on and Gabi knows it has to do with the monster in the ocean he just has to figure out how the two are related before he or Ruth become the next victims.

When we first meet Gabi he’s at the train station and he runs into an older woman who gives him a warning not to go to the Hamptons because something has been awoken, and from that moment readers are thrust into a story about a monster attacking people in this luxurious place. Gabi is our main character and he’s very much an introvert and kind of nerdy. Ruth is Gabi’s best friend and her family recently moved to the Hamptons after becoming newly rich. Ruth has made a new life for herself she isn’t the same girl who Gabi knew in the city she’s ventured out of her comfort zone and now has a boyfriend named Frost. Frost is also very rich and his family has a lot of influence on things that go down in the Hamptons. Gabi is suspicious of Frost but it comes off as jealousy and it starts to create fractions in his friendship with Ruth. Gabi ends up befriending Georgina who’s also a bit nerdy and enjoys research and the two of them end up researching what’s going on. I liked the whole Cthulhu aspect of the book and why the monster was around, it was even better seeing Gabi and Georgina realize why the deaths were happening. The ending was good and everything made sense, I will say the only thing that bothered me was the miscommunication between Gabi and Ruth during most of the book.

Overall, I thought this was a fun book and it’s great for the summer, it may not be a cute beach read but it’ll make for a beach read that’ll keep you on the edge of your seat and making sure weird things aren’t going to ruin your summer.