There was something really goddamn sexy about a man who wanted to scare me.

Dahlia's united with her crush Rafael during a Halloween event, pairing up for a first date during one of her favorite activities--being scared. Dude must have been paying attention to her likes or stalking her MySpace or something back when they were in school together, cause he totally ratchets up her dirty little fantasies as they work their way through the mazes, and pushes her in all kinds of ways.

Laroux does a pretty good job of setting up the atmosphere of the entire haunt and brings the various maze sections to life just enough for imagination to fill in the blanks in a satisfying way. There's really an impressive amount of ambience through the whole story that makes it feel like October and cool nights and being out for a night of fun. The 2008 setting is well done too, through fashion choices and some little things like vocabulary, and the age range of the MCs, which I'm guessing to be in their early 20s, seems so appropriate for the time period I could almost picture people I knew in their roles, authentically.

Lots of kinks are touched on through the 33 pages, and I feel like unfortunately some of them suffered a bit from the brevity. Maybe I'm being greedy but I would've loved to see another 10 or so pages added to this and a few of them given more room to breathe and be explored more, especially the brat x tamer dynamic that felt fairly rushed to get into. Honestly give me more of that AND give me more of the maze shenanigans, that was fun af.

Totally recommend this as a spooky season read!