A review by taylorhathcock
Tastes Like Candy 2: Sugarless by Ivy Tholen

3.0

I absolutely adored the first book it was all the things you love about a slasher film in book form. The first part of this book very much fit that same vibe. We have a new girl who is struggling with her place in a friend group, who suddenly starts getting messages from someone mysterious. The girl quickly believes she is chatting with Blythe and begins to plot the best way to get revenge on all her friends. It was cool because this time we got to see the planning side of things and why. We also got the mystery of well who is texting her?? However, part two of the book ruined any enjoyment I got from the first part. We finally get back to Violet, who is living a completely different life than anticipated and who refuses to return home. That is until she gets a call from one of her friends sisters asking for help. Even this could have worked great with the slasher element, but the book goes into some weird element. Suddenly we have someone who is able to hack into like everything and knows what's happening. We get an attempted attack by a fridge. It just didn't make much sense to be honest. The whole ending was strange and I'm not really sure what we were supposed to take away from this one... maybe a third one is planned...