This was a really great story! I loved all of the characters and felt like the author did a really great job of making the plot interesting and the characters relatable. It definitely works and the story just came alive for me. It was spooky yet solvable, complicated yet simple. Read this book, you won’t regret that choice!

I thought this was brilliant. Not only is the plot incredibly fast paced and entertaining but underneath it all we have some incredible mental health representation. I do not suffer from PSTD or Agoraphobia but I have two degrees in psychology. To me this was a far better representation of both than other books I have read (*cough* The Woman in the Window). This might seem like a book about hauntings with a large helping of body horror but really this is book about grief.
This is why I love horror. This right here.

I really enjoyed this book. I loved the horror aspect around social media. It reminds me of the movie Pulse which I absolutely loved. I am happy that I was introduced to this author. I loved the creativity in the story and appreciate the opportunity to receive this arc.

This book is spooky. Teresa is a Streamer who has gone through a traumatic car accident and lost her best friend. She is also struggling with identity but to keep it simple I will use She/her. Teresa, along with thousands of others, watches as a fellow streamer is haunted by a shadow figure. Teresa becomes obsessed with figuring out what happened. More and more streamers are attacked and fall into catatonic states. When Teresa's younger brother and her crush fall victim to the shadow figure, she is the only one who can save them.
This is a slow build, but thrilling book. It's going to have me checking screens for a while. Teresa is an unlikely hero who is forced to overcome psychological and physical obstacles to save those she loves. Recommend this to readers who like thrillers.

Internet supernatural horror, with strong found footage vibes throughout! This genre is very difficult to write without hopelessly overdoing it, but "Deadstream" absolutely nails it. The story is essentially about a sinister haunting, though instead of houses it's livestreams getting haunted! The idea is original (though slightly reminiscent of the movie Host), the execution flawless, the creepy scenes plentiful and the action never stops. This last is a bit of a mystery (I mean how the author manages to keep the tension high and the action non-stop), since the main character is a traumatized livestreamer with several mental issues, on account of which she can't even leave her room. Yet the employment of different formats (descriptions and transciptions of livestreams, live chats, messages, videos), and the realistic portrayal of gender fluidity, teenage dilemmas, and heightened emotion (from grief and guilt to hope and love), kept me turning the pages all night, and ended up finishing it in one sitting. The ending was marvelous, and the last lines quite hair-raising! Very highly recommend, certainly not only for young adult readers but for all horror fans!

Good YA thriller but not for me. I may have to try this on audio when it comes out due to the formatting though.

This is a very interesting read! I wanted to start it back around Halloween but I didn’t have the time!

Definitely a more gloomy spooky vibe perfect for the Halloween season but enjoyable outside of the season as well!

Detailed and descriptive! A tad rushed but all of the points are made quite well throughout!

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Teresa AKA Replay experienced a horrific accident that left her crippled with fear and anxiety. Her main way to cope is through streaming and the online community that she builds. However, the safety of her online words crashes down as strange and creepy things start happening to all her favourite streamers. And her.

From the very beginning, this was creepy. And the author did not let up on the creepy factor. This set the scene for a book that, once I started, I couldn’t keep my eyes away from. The world was very claustrophobic, and made me feel anxious any time Teresa stepped out of her room. The book held true to what I expect in a YA novel, if not raised the stakes even more. I have not read any YA horrors that creeped me out the way this one did.
The age range and choice of streaming sits very well with YA as most teenagers are watching YouTube or Twitch and interacting. The language of the chats was also very appropriate for the age range.

The formatting style of this book was a unique choice, having most of the pages in either stream, chat, or other forum layouts. This added to the immersion of the book and was where it was mainly creepy.
For 95 percent of the book, the execution was flawless. However, the ending did not make sense for the story that was told. It was confusing, and took me out of the story.

I would recommend this book to anyone in their late teens to early twenties, as this is a poignant look into the life of a streamer with anxiety, and teaches an important lesson that sometimes we need to log off.

Overall this book gets 4 stars. Thank you to Netgalley and Penguin Group for the Advanced Reader’s Copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

The premise was good for a YA horror novel. I thought the chat was a little distracting. I think the author should have cut some of that out and spent more time with character development. The chat felt like a big part of the book. I did like the cover though. Reminded me of horror book covers from the 80s and 90s.

First of all,
I really love the cover. Its so cute!
Second of all,
This book was really good. I went in expecting not the worst and I got story that was pretty darn good.

Thank you Netgalley and Penguin random house.

I had such an amazing time with this book. Mar Romasco-Moore had me hooked from beginning to end. Genuinely tence and creepy in the best way. I will definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes to stream/watch games on Twitch, or just go down old reddit rabbit holes online. I'm excited to check out more of Mar Romasco-Moore books.

Content Warnings⚠️

Body Horror
Suicide
Mental illness

Thank you Netgalley for providing me an Arc for my honest review.

I'm not typically a fan of books that involve streaming but the cover was fantastic as was the blurb and I'm happy to say that the story lived up to both.

I could not put this book down!!!!
Going into Deadstream, I made every effort to put aside ANY expectations and just have fun with it. Being a fan of movies such as “Unfriended” and “Cam”, I know how difficult a story like this can be to pull off. As a movie? Pretty difficult. As a novel? I would say near impossible. But Mar Romasco-Moore handled this story beautifully. It was creepy, a bit scary at times, and had me not wanting to look at screens for a good while after I finished it.
The structure of this book kept me hooked. I thought it was really cool how the streaming chapters were formatted and written. It was immersive and engaging. Teresa’s chapters were also written well and she was a strong main character.
One of my favorite things about Teresa was that she felt realistic. She’s a teen girl struggling to adapt to life after a tragedy left her with severe anxiety that presents very similarly to OCD. As someone who struggles with OCD, I was excited to see a character I could relate to so well in one of my favorite genres.
That is not to say that the book is flawless. I think some readers will find the last portion of the book to be a bit cheesy or be confused by the ending. And occasionally (as in maybe once), the narration in Teresa’s chapters feels a bit inconsistent. But this didn’t take away from the story for me.
All of this to say, Deadstream is a new favorite of mine and I cannot wait to have a physical copy in my hands. I recommend this to anyone who enjoys horror, especially if you’re chronically online like most of us are.
Now I plan to take a much needed break from screen time and try to forget some of the creepy images this book put into my brain.

*Huge thanks to Mar Romasco-Moore, Penguin Group | Viking Books, and NetGalley for providing me with an advanced e-book of Deadstream in exchange for honest review.*

This was a fun one! I even found myself genuinely spooked a few times which is always a good thing in my book. I enjoyed how Mar Romasco-Moore incorporated modern chat slang and communication. As a gamer, it was fun, relatable and engaging to see this story play out through online communities. The ending did feel a bit more rushed, but part of that was probably just me wanting more.

Thank you Netgalley for an arc in exchange for an honest review.
This book follows Teresa, a gaming streamer. She witnesses a change in an a fellow online streamer’s behaviour and from there paranormal things begin. I thought the beginning of this book was slightly repetitive but as it went on got really good. I loved creepy it was towards the end but the ending wasn’t my favourite.

Coming from someone who lived on the old Fear Street novels, I loved this book!

It’s a found footage sort of deal, and kind of reminds me of that movie Host that was shot in quarantine, mainly because the majority takes place through the screen following video game streamers. This genre is like catnip for me, I’ll watch any found footage. Just on that alone, it was a fun read for me.

I’m not in the target audience for YA anymore so take this with a grain of salt, but the way the kids talk didn’t feel too overdone to me. It seemed like the author was pretty decent at simulating netspeak, to what actual kids posting online and DMing would sound like. It didn’t bother me at least.

I actually found this decently scary, a little more gory and “goes there” more than the other YA I’ve read. I was surprised by that but pleased to see it.

Deadstream explains everything you need, and nothing you don’t. The horror genre frequently falls into the trappings of either over-explaining and removing the scary, or under explaining and feeling half baked. There’s none of that here, it’s great.

There are legitimate horror payoffs here, it doesn’t pull a punch, and it pulls off the rare sticking the ending. 4.5/5 stars, check it out YA horror fans.

Thank you NetGalley and Penguin for sending this book for review
This was great and just in time for Halloween (late review), it was a little fast paced but, it worked in favor of the book! I also loved the main character Teresa, I find her relatable and following her on her journey was a rollercoaster of a ride!
This reminded me of the Mummy meets The Ring and was my first novel by this author!

I really enjoyed this book! It has the perfect creepy and unsettling feeling as it’s things we know so well ourselves! Additionally the twists just kept coming which made it really enjoyable to read. I didn’t see the actual last 30% coming at all honestly.

DEADSTREAM is a book that moves fast and hits hard - our main character, Teresa, is an agoraphobic teen dealing with trauma by completely isolating herself from the real world and finding solace in the online world of streaming, and those are pretty much her defining character traits. Other characters are likewise a bit flat, but work as components to the story of the haunted internet going after successful streamers. The horror/thriller elements work great, and the diversity of characters present pick up a lot of the development slack.

Teens into the streaming and gaming worlds will find a lot to love here, as will fans of techno-horror like Unfriended and Host.

Really enjoyed this one! I should have read it so much sooner! But I don’t regret it. This maybe a new obsession! I love the characters, plot, etc.