60 pages • 2 hours read
Caught Up
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Background
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes descriptions of sexual content, graphic violence, bullying, gender and/or transgender discrimination, sexual violence and harassment, rape, cursing, illness or death, and physical and emotional abuse.
Series Context: The Into Darkness Trilogy
The first novel in the Into Darkness Trilogy is Lights Out, which focuses on Aly and Josh. Aly, who previously dated Josh’s roommate, Tyler, is obsessed with Josh’s explicit TikTok videos. When Tyler mentions Aly to Josh, Josh starts stalking her, and this development eventually leads to their romance. As with Caught Up, the romance is a primary conflict in the text, but the author relies on other, ancillary conflicts to drive the romance forward. Josh is conflicted about his similarities to his father, who was a serial killer, and Aly struggles to balance her work and life as a nurse. When a wealthy patient named Bradley Bluhm threatens Aly and starts stalking her, Aly and Josh have to work together with Junior (who is Aly’s cousin and a member of the mafia) in order to kill Bluhm. However, by working with Junior, Aly and Josh become indebted to his father, Nico Trocci Sr., and they are then obligated to attend the monthly family dinners; this ritual appears several times in Caught Up.
In Lights Out, Junior appears only as a minor character, but he becomes one of the protagonists in Caught Up, which takes place six months after the events of Lights Out.
