A review by lizgriffinwords
White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Fans of haunted houses or the show Euphoria NEED to pick up this book. This is one of those instances that proves a protagonist doesn’t need to be “relatable” for a book to be riveting and entertaining.

Marigold and her blended family move in to a renovated house in Cedarville, but everything from missing equipment to faulty lights and locked basement doors make this house anything but inviting. Marigold uses weed to mitigate her anxiety and OCD (which flared due to a bedbug incident at their previous house), and she discovers from people at school that the new town law enforcement cracks down harshly on dealers. She’s on the prowl for her next fix, but something in the house has it it for her.

Content notes: contains teens drinking/doing drugs, coarse language, jailed family members, race-based gerrymandering, and religious gaslighting.
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