My coworker recommended that I read this book after I read Stephanie Perkin's other books ("Anna and the French Kiss"; "Lola and the Boy Next Door"; and "Isla and the Happily Ever After"). And listen, I'm not a fan of horror books or horror movies. I'm very particular about my mystery novels.
But this book...THIS book...was so fucking good. (and Netflix is making/has made a movie based off of it--release date TBD but 2020 sometime).
Like so freaking fucking good. The switching POVs (you get to know the murder victims just a bit before Stephanie offs them--such a great authorial choice there). The perfect use of gaslighting and sense of paranoia. The small town, red-neck, hysteria mind-set was strong (and accurate).
["Love hurts...
Makani Young thought she'd left her dark past behind her in Hawaii, settling in with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska. She's found new friends and has even started to fall for mysterious outsider Ollie Larsson. But her past isn't far behind.Then, one by one, the students of Osborne Hugh begin to die in a series of gruesome murders, each with increasingly grotesque flair. As the terror grows closer and her feelings for Ollie intensify, Makani is forced to confront her own dark secrets."]
Trigger warnings: blood/gore, death, suicide, gaslighting, violence, murder. stalking
Off to go buy/read Stephanie's other horror/mystery (stay paranoid y'all).
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