Since she was a child and her best friend died in a fire she started Cassidy has been called fire girl and relentlessly tormented by the kids at her school. Now in high school when one of her biggest tormentors goes missing Cassidy becomes the target and she begins to question everyone and everything. With a twist ending you never see coming and a good lesson about the powers of rumors this book was an engaging read!

I struggled through this one, I'll be honest. I didn't connect with the main character at all. Cass is hard to follow when she goes into one of her episodes. She's panicked and spacey a lot. Also I wasn't really surprised by the twist in the end...

Little Creeping Things - Chelsea Ichaso

Cassidy Pratt survived a fire as a child, but her neighbour wasn’t as lucky. Ever since, Cass has been haunted by flashbacks of the fire, and has been treated as a social pariah by the popular kids at school. But that’s okay. She has her brother, Asher, and her best friend, Gideon. But things start to unravel for Cassidy when she overhears what could very well be the murder of someone that she knows. Worse? It sounded like it happened exactly the way she had planned it.

Our main character is heavily flawed. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as all humans are flawed. She is also a very unreliable narrator. Being a social outcast, as well as teased by the popular crowd, Cass is reluctant to let anyone into her and Gideon’s small, close world.
When Cass overhears what she believes to be the murder of the town darling, Melody - who happens to be the cousin of the neighbour who died, as well as Cass’s biggest tormenter - she is reluctant to share everything she knows. Even Gideon, her best friend since she was six, feels like someone she can’t talk to. Because as well as an ingrained belief that Cass herself started the fire all those years ago, she has another secret. She wrote down the exact method the possible killer may have used to do away with Melody.
Cass feels that the whole world, apart from Gideon and her brother, Asher, are against her. She can never measure up to her older brother’s stellar school record. She has flashbacks to the fire that plague her at the most inopportune times - such as the middle of a volleyball game. With the disaprearance followed by murder of Melody, Cass is reluctant to tell anyone everything she know.
Honestly, this review is getting hard to write without spoilers. So.
I thought that the character development for Cass and Gideon was done well - though we know less than we might about Gideon, it vibes with the way that Cass holds things close to her chest. Character development for the rest of the book… Not so great. Asher is home all the time and all we know is that he has his own business, and a friend called Brandon - who Cass doesn’t like. There is a character introduced in the beginning of the book who I didn;t think twice about when they reappeared; as far as I knew, it was our first time meeting them.
I thought I knew who-dunnit; I was wrong on my initial instinct but I did figure it out in advance of our main character.

In all, not a bad book. I kept reading it, because I wanted to know what happened, and I wasn’t expecting the reveal near the end.

Content Warning: Violence, death of a child, death of a teen, fire
Overall Rating: 3.5 stars

I would like to thank netgalley and the publisher for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review, but unfortunately this was just not a book I could sink my teeth into. It started out too slowly for me and I couldn't keep any interest in the characters.

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A must read debut that will give you the heebie jeebies. If you love suspense then this book is for you!

This is one of the best books I've read in a long time. It was literally a one-sitting read, and I regret nothing. I was completely hooked from the first page, and I was left guessing right until the end. Very well written. Loved it.