This was amazing and just as good if not better than the authors other book. I truly loved every second.

Overall, I appreciated the books message and I loved the gore. I enjoyed reading a book with different types of representation. I could not figure out who was the murdered but I was able to narrow it down. I second guessed myself. I enjoyed the thrill of not knowing. I think the writing was repetitive at times. It was a lot of things that didn’t need to be mentioned because the reader would figure it out through context. I still don’t understand the milkman and Shirley. Thank you for the ARC!

4.5 💫

Thank you to Margaret K. McElderry Books, Simon and Schuster, and Fierce Reads for blessing my shelves and imagination.

What in the world did I just read?

I'm honestly afraid of Liselle Sambury's literary mind. Delicious Monsters was an absolute mind fcuk but this....THIS! A psychological thriller mystery built around a cult that I refused to put down. It will have you side eyeing your parents and siblings.

This was a true page turner! I love a good mystery/thriller.

We follow Sunny whose mom just passed away and her brother, Dom, who was accused of murdering his girlfriend just before their mothers death. Dom says he didn't do it and so now we are having to solve what truly happened. However, things keep happening and people are coming up dead.

I might be bias but I love Liselle Sambury's books. I thought it was written well and I loved the character development in this.

This had a perfect ending! I have already preordered this for my cousin. It's right up her alley.

Tender Beasts is a thriller following Sunny as she copes with her Mom's untimely death, the weight and pressure she feels to keep her family together after the fact, and especially to fulfill her Mom's final instructions: "Take care of Dom" Dom is her youngest brother who has always seemed separate from her and her other 3 siblings, and Dom had been accused of murdering his girlfriend not long before their Mother's death.

Dom is adamant that he did not kill his girlfriend and he and Sunny begin to become closer, but then strange things have begun happening and more people are showing up dead. Believing him gets harder and harder.

This book hooked me in from the beginning. The mystery was well set up and I felt that the characters were all believable and well written. The writing struck a good balance of hints to the truth, but not so lined out that you know exactly what's going to happen before you're even halfway through the book.Each of the last 3-4 chapters kind of felt like an alternate ending, but ultimately I appreciated the final ending and feel like it held true to the characters as they'd grown through the story.

Some minor spoilers below:

My only critiques were pretty minor, but to me how Sunny talks about being in competition with her older sister for the role of head of household, just didn't read like a 16 year old to me. And the "milk man" vs "Yar man" was a bit murky and I found the title of "Milk Man" a bit goofy. There were also a couple kind of important hints that ultimately were a bit confusingly tied in at the end.