I received this book from the publisher in exchange of an honest review.

💀 The cover is just fab! I love that scary skull in the back, plus I love that all three of the characters are black.
💀 I am glad that Mick turned out to be much less as she was in the start. Given that she is the MC eventually. She was a big ass at the start with Tanner saying clearly no and her just continuing on. Her just ignoring that she is a GUEST at someone’s house. So I am glad that she turned out to be quite OK, and I love her dedication to getting rid of the demon and getting revenge.
💀 The opening scenes before the kids band up and get together, wow. That was creepy and it definitely set the tone for the rest of the book. Don’t fuck with CodeSkull.
💀 I am probably seeing things, but I did like seeing Cain and Tommy get closer. I was kinda thinking it would go the stereotypical way, Mick x Tommy. But instead I got all those vibes with Cain and Tommy.
💀 CodeSkull and the fact he could just be everywhere that electricity was? SCARY. Terrifying. Especially when he could move stuff, like the cables, or even a fridge. You are just never safe. I guess it is at least good for these kids that mobile phones and all that don’t exist yet or at least not that advanced. Imagine what havoc CodeSkull could have done then? shivers
💀 I do appreciate that the author doesn’t shy away from killing off people. A lot of books would probably avoid killing too much, but here? So many people got hurt or died because CodeSkull. You could clearly see the consequences. It wasn’t just CodeSkull targeting our trio, oh no, everyone who got in the way or was in the nearby area? Fucked.
💀 This both made me laugh and cheer for the kids. Them going for water to cancel out electricity. I got immediately Pokemon vibes and those thoughts wouldn’t leave my mind even when things got grim. But I did like that the kids thought of the plan for water so soon and also got out some big guns for it.
💀 The references. Not everything I will get as this one takes place in the US and I live in the Netherlands. I appreciated the game references, some of the snacks I recognised (mostly the popular ones that got overseas), the movies and books named, and others. It made me giggle and squee.
💀 The part in the electricity building (sorry, I am totally not remembering the actual name not even in Dutch, why head why?). Those were just terrifying and scary and I was on the edge of my seat. I just couldn’t stop reading. I was glued to my Kindle screen.
💀 And then there is the last part! The final battle. The last stand. Holy crap. That is what I will say. WOW.
💀 I am also glad we got to see a bit that takes place afterwards, I always appreciate that, though I have to say thanks to the previous book I was also kinda dreading it. Would everything really be done?
💀 Oh, and before I end, I love that we get a girl gamer! Mick is one through and through and I just adore it.

😑 While I am happy that the ending was a closed-off one. Due to the fact that the previous book kept things open I constantly was dreading the same happening here. In the other book in the series it kinda worked, but I am just never a fan of those type of endings, the goosebumpy endings. And I knew that it wouldn’t work here if the things were left open. So I was constantly dreading and that definitely lowered my feelings for the book.
😑 I just never got a hold of their ages. Given that Cain has a job along with a car and a license he should be around 16-18, but yet he often acts the same way as Mick and Tommy who feel more like 12-13 to me, sometimes younger. I would have definitely liked more clarity on that as it pulled me out of the story a few times.

All in all, I am definitely happy I got the opportunity to read this book and I am looking forward what is next in the Totally Freaked series. Which writer is next? What story will we get?