She’d recently lost both her parents in a horrific accident and yet there was no grief, or even a point being made about her absence of grief, she just felt guilty. Finch is clearly the more prominent protagonist but I felt nothing from her. Told in a version close third person, even though ‘My Dearest Darkest’ focuses on two main characters: Finch and Selena, it also skips to other characters, but it does so very fleetingly and no very closely. It really missed the mark for me, however. With an exclusive boarding school setting, a mysterious dark creature, and references to ‘The Craft’ and Rory power’s ‘Wilder Girls’, I was sure this was going to be a hit. But as the cost of their wanting becomes more deadly, Finch and Selena must learn to work together to stop the horror they unleashed, before it consumes the entire island.

It promises to grant every desire the girls have kept locked away in their insecure hearts-beauty, power, adoration-in exchange for a price: human body parts. One night Finch, Selena, and her friends accidentally summon a carnivorous creature of immense power in the depths of the school. But despite Selena's suspicion, she feels drawn to Finch and has a sinking feeling that from now on the two will be inexplicably linked to one another. Clair sees right through Finch, and she knows something is seriously wrong with her. Finch doesn't know why she woke up after her heart stopped, but since dying she's felt a constant pull from the school and the surrounding town of Rainwater, like something on the island is calling to her. But something monstrous, and ancient, and terrifying, wouldn't let her drown. Months before school started, Finch and her parents got into an accident that should have left her dead at the bottom of the river. Wilder Girls meets The Craft in this Sapphic horror debut that asks: what price would you be willing to pay to achieve your deepest desires?įinch Chamberlin is the newest transfer student to the ultra-competitive Ulalume Academy.

I’m sad to say that ‘My Dearest Darkest’ didn’t break this trend in any way. We seem to be experiencing a trend in the books featured in the finale for every season of the podcast: a disappointment.

My dearest darkest