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reviewed Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke (The Scapegracers, #1)

Hannah Abigail Clarke: Scapegracers (Hardcover, 2020, Kensington)

Skulking near the bottom of West High’s social pyramid, Sideways Pike lurks under the bleachers …

YA, good and bad

Queer-forward YA, the witch/lesbian metaphor is direct and unexamined, in fact all the ways in which this book plays with cliche (highschool horror clique drama) are immediate and undistanced from actually being cliche. But plausibility and flat plot points aside, I enjoyed it, good dialog and themes.