Pop culture memories meet Lovecraftian horrors: the kids from Scooby-Doo (sort of) have unfinished business. Their last case just didn't sit right with any of them ... and it's haunted them ever since. They're getting the band back together to close this monstrous case.

A fun read that's just right for the spooky season. The author has a style that you'll either love or hate, prone to heavy use of metaphor, allusion, and other 50-cent words. :D I'd give it 4.5 stars.
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I need to start by saying I loved Scooby-Doo, mostly because it helped me become a skeptic, and critical thinker. Keep that in mind when you see this review.

The book was written well and very entertaining. The narrator was great and able to give the characters voices and feelings. The story was fun and I enjoyed it. However, it would have been a better book if it didn’t try to associate itself with the Scooby-Doo gang so much, but is also what made me interested in the book in the first place.

I liked the story… I loved SD because there was always some logical explanation, some guy in a mask. If you are hoping for that with this story, get that thought completely out of your mind and just enjoy the book ignoring all the callbacks to the SD tropes. ( )

i know people either loved or hated the writing style of this one and i think i'm somewhere in the middle. it was fun!! and i found it engaging. my brand of adhd was never bored because it kept switching it up throughout the paragraph, so i enjoyed it a lot. the plot was also FUN and not at all what i expected when i picked this book up. i'm a huge scooby-doo fan so the characters alone were enough to get me to give it a try and i guess i totally forgot about the summary mentioning Lovecraftian horror bc i was like WHAT!! when we started getting into it.
i liked the idea of andy and kerri and thought how they ultimately end up was sweet. however i'd be lying if i said some of their dialogue/interactions didn't make me cringe- like them more than once being like "Ha ha VULVAS omg babe stoppp ur so funny" and stuff idk it was extremely weird at times. also the little moments discussing transness and gender affirming surgery.....like what was that all about. felt very waka_flaka_ok meme ( )

I enjoyed this book immensely! Very clever and superbly written. ( )

The story is a fantastic mash-up of kids' detective novels and Saturday morning cartoons with a dash of HP Lovecraft thrown in! Highly recommended.
[Audiobook note: The reader does a great job, but Audible picked the most boring sample imaginable for their website. Don't let it put you off.] ( )