Find Him Where You Left Him Dead (Death Games, 1)

Ex-best friends Maddy, Emerson, Dax, and Owen haven’t spoken since the incident four years ago that cost them their friend Ian. But when they’re called back together by a visit from Ian’s apparition, they realize they must return to the cave where it all started and to the game they never finished. To find Ian, they must enter a dark hellscape called Meido to find seven stones and return them to a dead empress before dawn. Can they find their friend and escape the game before their time runs out? Or will they remain trapped there forever?

The concept of this book was really interesting. I was pretty invested for the first third of the book, but after that, the underdeveloped characters and too many POVs began to take away from the storyline. The actual storytelling was fast-paced but not very well developed, and the big revelations weren’t really exciting because of the dull characters. Japanese-inspired horror story: the description just calls for attention, but it just didn’t quite live up to my expectations. I would recommend this to Japanese folklore and horror lovers for a quick read.