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Dead Girls Walking
by Sami Ellis
A huge thank you to the author and Amulet Books/@piquebeyond for providing me an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
A super fun and campy (literally) thriller perfect for fans of slashers - with a supernatural twist that will keep you guessing until the end.
Our main character Temple joins as a camp counselor at a summer camp that used to be her home - as well as the home of her convicted serial killer father, the North Point Killer. Returning to try to find where her mother’s body is buried after a vague conversation with her father, she winds up uncovering secrets about her past that she never saw coming. Can she break the cycle of death and violence that runs through her family, or will she succumb to the same impulses that lead to her father’s imprisonment?
This book was a fun read that kept me engaged the entire time. Reading this was like watching a typical slasher, complete with a high body count and lots of blood - but with an entire cast of queer black girls and women.
Figuring out who all the characters are took a bit getting used to, as this book kind of just dumps you in the middle of their drama and relationships with little buildup - but the confusion doesn’t stay for long. It feels like we started in the middle of this story and are trying to piece together both the ending, and the beginning - but with the mysteries and supernatural twists in this book it really fits the narrative. Once we think we know what’s going on, this book will throw you for a loop in the entire opposite direction.
Our main character Temple can be a bit abrasive, especially as this novel begins, but honestly I was on her side almost the entire time. She had some good points about how she was and how she was treated by other people, and even when she was acting in a way that she probably shouldn’t I was still mostly on her side. She’s not exactly a likable main character all the time, but she feels very human and I understood where she was coming from.
(At one point I thought “I support women’s rights, but more importantly I support women’s wrongs” when she was doing something.)
A perfect fit for fans of My Heart is a Chainsaw, if you were wishing for another blood soaked Final Girl who you root for despite everything they’ve done.
A super fun and campy (literally) thriller perfect for fans of slashers - with a supernatural twist that will keep you guessing until the end.
Our main character Temple joins as a camp counselor at a summer camp that used to be her home - as well as the home of her convicted serial killer father, the North Point Killer. Returning to try to find where her mother’s body is buried after a vague conversation with her father, she winds up uncovering secrets about her past that she never saw coming. Can she break the cycle of death and violence that runs through her family, or will she succumb to the same impulses that lead to her father’s imprisonment?
This book was a fun read that kept me engaged the entire time. Reading this was like watching a typical slasher, complete with a high body count and lots of blood - but with an entire cast of queer black girls and women.
Figuring out who all the characters are took a bit getting used to, as this book kind of just dumps you in the middle of their drama and relationships with little buildup - but the confusion doesn’t stay for long. It feels like we started in the middle of this story and are trying to piece together both the ending, and the beginning - but with the mysteries and supernatural twists in this book it really fits the narrative. Once we think we know what’s going on, this book will throw you for a loop in the entire opposite direction.
Our main character Temple can be a bit abrasive, especially as this novel begins, but honestly I was on her side almost the entire time. She had some good points about how she was and how she was treated by other people, and even when she was acting in a way that she probably shouldn’t I was still mostly on her side. She’s not exactly a likable main character all the time, but she feels very human and I understood where she was coming from.
(At one point I thought “I support women’s rights, but more importantly I support women’s wrongs” when she was doing something.)
A perfect fit for fans of My Heart is a Chainsaw, if you were wishing for another blood soaked Final Girl who you root for despite everything they’ve done.