supercheesegirl

I absolutely adored this book. There's history, there's fantasy, there's a lake monster. I think I particularly loved how the fantasy just blends in to the story--it seems like a perfectly ordinary world, but there are ghosts and a character who can set fires with her emotions and a character who doesn't age, besides the monster in the lake (who floats to the surface right on the first page), and this is never explained away, no one doesn't believe it, it's just part of the story. The non-aging character is never even explicitly described that way, he's just subtly in there. It's just the fabric of this world, this wild town that Groff has created that is somehow just like any old east coast town you know. I think the world-building is probably stronger here than the actual protagonist and her plot, but that's okay really because the world is so enjoyable. Recommended.