Review: If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You by Leigh Stein

If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You 

by Leigh Stein

Blurb from Goodreads:

Fates collide after a tarot influencer disappears from a decaying Hollywood mansion in this unnerving gothic mystery and audacious social comedy from the acclaimed author of Self Care.

After her boyfriend dumps her in a Reddit post, unemployed thirty-nine-year-old Dayna accepts an unusual opportunity from a man she stopped speaking to twenty years If Dayna can help Craig transform his crumbling mansion into a successful hype house of influencers, he can restore his birthright to its former glory, and she can bring her career back from the dead.

But missing from the mansion is Becca, an enigmatic tarot card reader who built a rabid fandom with her cryptic, soul-touching videos . . .  and then vanished. With nineteen-year-old Olivia, the newest member of the hype house (and one of Becca’s biggest fans), Dayna begins to build a social media campaign around Becca’s disappearance that will catapult the creators to new heights of success. Too bad Craig forbids Dayna from pursuing the mystery at its heart.

As Olivia searches for traces of Becca in a labyrinthine house that seems intent on hiding its secrets, and Dayna becomes entangled with both Craig and Jake, the resident heartthrob and the last person to see Becca, the two women make a shocking discovery that will upend everything.

The You may think you’re inhabiting it, but is it really inhabiting you?

 

This definitely did not go where I expected.  It was like an MC Escher painting -- so many twists, turns and dead ends but in the best way.  I liked the characters and I liked being surprised.  Great ending, too!  Give this a try!!

If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You comes out next week on August 26, 2025 and you can purchase HERE.  

Maybe it was true what the adults said-that the platform wasn't the real world. But it was real enough. You could leave this world for that one without dying. The old people who were so mad that we were spending all our time on the platform weren't giving us a better alternative. Who would choose the real world-with all its suffering and humiliations-over a platform that excluded everyone who believed you were wasting your life? This was my life. Everyone on the platform had already bought into the platform. We were in on the joke. The joke was on them.