Arts & Crafts

I’ll admit, I side-eyed the premise at first—another ‘kids solve a mystery’ story? But *Arts & Crafts* hooked me in the first 10 minutes, and it wasn’t just the plot. Danielle Muething’s narration is the secret weapon here. She doesn’t *perform* Vivvy so much as *channel* her: the eye-rolls are audible, the panic is raw, and the way she spits out ‘*Joanie, listen to me for once!*’ had me flashing back to my own middle-school friendships. The production is clean, but the real star is the pacing—Muething knows when to let a silence hang after a reveal, making the listener lean in. That said, the mystery’s resolution feels slightly rushed, like the final pieces click into place a beat too neatly. And while the digital elements (coded messages, online aliases) are clever, I wished for one more layer of ambiguity—was the threat supernatural, or just a very good troll? Still, the strength of Vivvy’s voice and the razor-sharp dialogue (Ronnie’s deadpan humor is *chef’s kiss*) more than make up for it. This is the rare audiobook that’ll have tweens glued to their headphones *and* give adults a nostalgic punch of ‘remember when the internet felt like a secret world?’ Just don’t blame me if you start double-checking your own DMs afterward.