Book one of Six (quelle horreur!) in a series about a depressive millennial documentarian and the strange, witchy psychic he enlisted as the subject for his most recent documentary. Mystery unfolds, reality television gets skewered, history gets explained by a musicology major, punkettes operate cameras, and Wynn has a undying romance with a handsome dork of an air traffic controller. This isn't even cornering what goes on with the titular character, a woman that could charitably called an overly confident mischief maker.
Where the heck does this book take place? Albuquerque, NM, for the most part. Vince Gilligan might come up a few times in conversation.
Who are the characters? Wynn, for starters, the depressed millennial documentarian, as well as Peyton McCoy, his bubbly camera, and Kennedy, a cynical band guy musicology major hired to engineer the feature's sound. Roland and Matilda Harley, a married couple established in the PNW but originally from NSW, try to play to their strengths. He decorates, she causes chaos communing with the dead. This book also has the Bacchans, a married set of medical doctors, and Brayan, an East LA contractor of Mexican and Salvadoran extraction who plays in a band.
Why is it rated 18+ if it's not erotic? Mainly to avoid complaints from the kind of overly terrified Tipper Gores and Muppets for Liberty that would try to get the book removed from the market altogether. Sometimes you have to preempt this stuff. The book is really more of an 80's PG/2000s PG-13 rating overall, but references cannibalism, missing persons, plenty of murder, and has a risque song and dance number.
