Alicia Ceasar's Reviews > Wretched Waterpark

****Thank you so much to the publisher and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read this book ahead of its release. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This book will be released in June 7th, 2022.

Wretched Waterpark is Kiersten White’s middle grade debut and in my opinion, she should definitely stay in the middle grade genre! This was great.

We follow twins Theo (who is always down for an adventure) and Alexander (who is not). The twins along with their older sister Wil are sent to stay with their aunt all summer. Their aunt knows nothing about raising children and sends them to spend their days at the local waterpark. The strangely gothic “Fathoms of Fun” waterpark is bizarre in every way and with the amount of people that seem to be disappearing, it seems to be dangerous as well. Theo and Alexander begin trying to figure out the mystery of the disappearances while Wil is just looking for a good wifi connection.

I don’t really want to say too much about this book because I went in pretty blind and I’m so glad that I did. The writing style reminded me so much of Series of Unfortunate Events while the location and mystery of the story definitely had scooby-doo vibes. I loved this whole book. It does have a bit of middle grade cheesiness but it is targeted to 12 year olds so I can’t really fault it for that.

The overarching plot of this series isn’t really gone into in this book so there were definitely a lot of loose ends throughout but I feel like that is something that will come together as the series goes on.

I will 100 percent be buying this book for my children’s home library and picking by up the second book as soon as I am able!