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The Mary Shelley Club
by Goldy Moldavsky
“If I was a monster, then so was everyone else in this club. And for once I didn’t feel like such a freak. We could be monsters together.”
Scream meets Gossip Girl. The story follows new girl Rachel as she has moved to a new school after a horrific incident. Rachel was attacked in a home invasion and is now coping by obsessing over horror movies. When she arrives at a party and sees a fear prank occurring, she decides she has to get in on this club, regardless of if they want her or not. The club is the Mary Shelley Club, in which each member loves horror movies and participates in pranks that are to scare their potential victims into screaming. The club consists of moody jerk Bram, Stephen King obsessed Felicity, friendly jokester Thayer , and film nerd Freddie. Rachel becomes obsessed with getting into the club and essentially strong arms her way in, but even in this club she is an outsider. Things start to take a turn for the worst when the pranks begin to get out of hand and a “masked” figure is taking things to the extreme.
This book is filled with horror movie references and notes, and as a horror movie lover myself I really thought it was such a nice touch! Rachel was an okay character to me, I just could not fathom her blind-sidedness to all the RED FLAGS going around her. For someone who loves and obsesses over horror movies she sure missed ALL OF THE FLAGS. She stalked the club members and essentially said “ the more they reject me the more I want in” and when she gets in and is still not welcomed, she’s hurt. Ma’am. She continues to ignore all the flags and signs that she should immediately leave this club and, oh I don’t know, join a knitting club you’d be better off. None of the characters exactly hooked me and I could definitely see how this is similar to Scream Queens or Scream. The ending is abrupt, and oh boy did it just go from about a 50 to 100% real fast with who the villain was. Overall, this was an okay read and I did love the horror movie references, I just didn’t enjoy any of the characters all that much.
*Thanks Netgalley and Macmillan Children's Publishing Group for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*
Scream meets Gossip Girl. The story follows new girl Rachel as she has moved to a new school after a horrific incident. Rachel was attacked in a home invasion and is now coping by obsessing over horror movies. When she arrives at a party and sees a fear prank occurring, she decides she has to get in on this club, regardless of if they want her or not. The club is the Mary Shelley Club, in which each member loves horror movies and participates in pranks that are to scare their potential victims into screaming. The club consists of moody jerk Bram, Stephen King obsessed Felicity, friendly jokester Thayer , and film nerd Freddie. Rachel becomes obsessed with getting into the club and essentially strong arms her way in, but even in this club she is an outsider. Things start to take a turn for the worst when the pranks begin to get out of hand and a “masked” figure is taking things to the extreme.
This book is filled with horror movie references and notes, and as a horror movie lover myself I really thought it was such a nice touch! Rachel was an okay character to me, I just could not fathom her blind-sidedness to all the RED FLAGS going around her. For someone who loves and obsesses over horror movies she sure missed ALL OF THE FLAGS. She stalked the club members and essentially said “ the more they reject me the more I want in” and when she gets in and is still not welcomed, she’s hurt. Ma’am. She continues to ignore all the flags and signs that she should immediately leave this club and, oh I don’t know, join a knitting club you’d be better off. None of the characters exactly hooked me and I could definitely see how this is similar to Scream Queens or Scream. The ending is abrupt, and oh boy did it just go from about a 50 to 100% real fast with who the villain was. Overall, this was an okay read and I did love the horror movie references, I just didn’t enjoy any of the characters all that much.
*Thanks Netgalley and Macmillan Children's Publishing Group for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*