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The Mary Shelley Club
by Goldy Moldavsky
This one sounded so good that I was excited when I saw there was going to be a blog tour for it. And in the end, it did not disappoint even a little bit! The Scream movies came out when I was first out of college and I loved them. I’ve always loved horror movies, I think I get it from both my mom and dad loving them. From when I was about 9 or 10 and my dad took me to the drive-in movies to see Friday the 13th, The Car and Blood Beach, then when he brought me back to my mom’s that night, I had nightmares all night. My mom was so mad at my dad. But I’d told him I could handle it. My mom was the one who read Stephen King books and forbid me from reading them until I remember the summer before I started high school and she just happened to leave one of her books laying around when she went to work and I picked it up and started reading it, and I was hooked!
However, I love scary books and movies. But I do not like Haunted Houses really. Not sure why, but that’s me. So I don’t know that I’d enjoy any part of the club in this book, other than the movie watching and discussions. My love of these types of stories though made this book a total winner for me! It was the perfect scary story, and would make a perfect horror movie along the same lines as the Scream series.
There was a lot of suspense and definitely tension for Rachel both with being the new girl, as well as what had happened to her at the beginning. The little bit at the beginning was even just like the beginnings of the Scream movies in its own way. And while I wanted so bad for Rachel to finally be fitting in and things to be on the upswing for her, I knew with this type of story, things weren’t going to be all roses and candy, things were going to go badly. And then did. I had a teensy inkling back of my mind though that something like what happened at the end was going on all along, but all the things I thought would prove it kept being swept away as not really happening. So the author did a great job with this!
And, the way it ended, exactly like a horror movie would end, just perfection from the beginning to the end!
Review first published on Lisa Loves Literature.
However, I love scary books and movies. But I do not like Haunted Houses really. Not sure why, but that’s me. So I don’t know that I’d enjoy any part of the club in this book, other than the movie watching and discussions. My love of these types of stories though made this book a total winner for me! It was the perfect scary story, and would make a perfect horror movie along the same lines as the Scream series.
There was a lot of suspense and definitely tension for Rachel both with being the new girl, as well as what had happened to her at the beginning. The little bit at the beginning was even just like the beginnings of the Scream movies in its own way. And while I wanted so bad for Rachel to finally be fitting in and things to be on the upswing for her, I knew with this type of story, things weren’t going to be all roses and candy, things were going to go badly. And then did. I had a teensy inkling back of my mind though that something like what happened at the end was going on all along, but all the things I thought would prove it kept being swept away as not really happening. So the author did a great job with this!
And, the way it ended, exactly like a horror movie would end, just perfection from the beginning to the end!
Review first published on Lisa Loves Literature.