ARC Review: A Guide to the Dark

 I received an ARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This did not affect my opinion of the book or my review itself.

A Guide to the Dark by Meriam Metoui

Mira and Layla are on a college tour, when their car goes off the road, stranding then in Room 9 at the Wildwood Motel. Room 9 has a history of death and misery, which Mira can feel deep in her bones. Picking up a team along the way, the two girls begin to dig into the history of Room 9 in hopes of pushing the past out of the present.

This book has a lot of good things going on. Mira and Layla are great best friends who are attempting to figure out their feelings for each other. The supporting cast of characters are interesting and had me rooting for them, Mira, and Layla hard. Room 9 is definitely creepy, and makes the stakes real and high.

But this book didn’t grab me the way I had hoped, and I can’t quite put my finger on why. I liked it, but I didn’t love it. I do know I didn’t really enjoy the chapters from the room’s “point of view”, and I wanted even more about the history of the room.

I would say give this book a try, it seems a lot of people have loved it more than me.