"What's Your Favorite Scary Movie?"
We've all been there: making the mad dash from our cars to the haunted house ticket booth while a Michael Meyers/Jason crossover maniacally chases us through the parking lot, before even making it inside the attraction. We shriek, we shiver, we even giggle, relishing in the tamed terror and the safety of knowing these characters can't really hurt us, it's all just for fun.
But what if it's not?
Alice prefers podcasts to parties and thrillers to toasts with her teenage peers. Alice is a self-proclaimed nerd, living in her All-American sister's shadow. But when Claire is gruesomely murdered in a scene ripped from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Alice finds herself wondering whether she could be a Final Girl.
How to Survive Your Murder is atmospheric and thrilling. It relies heavily on tropes from classic horror movies: I can taste the flat, lukewarm beer on my lips and feel the building pressure in my chest as I beg Claire not to walk through that corn maze alone. The novel gives me serious 90s nostalgia, and I am here for it!
The prose is somewhat simple, making it easy to tear through these first pages. I shuddered and laughed out loud on the same page, and Alice is intelligent, though somewhat judgmental narrator who is all too relatable. Much like visiting a haunted house attraction, How to Survive Your Murder is fast-paced, and anxiety-inducing in the best way. We all know we shouldn't peep behind the door, walk down those stairs, or look over our shoulders, and yet, I can't wait to.
But what if it's not?
Alice prefers podcasts to parties and thrillers to toasts with her teenage peers. Alice is a self-proclaimed nerd, living in her All-American sister's shadow. But when Claire is gruesomely murdered in a scene ripped from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Alice finds herself wondering whether she could be a Final Girl.
How to Survive Your Murder is atmospheric and thrilling. It relies heavily on tropes from classic horror movies: I can taste the flat, lukewarm beer on my lips and feel the building pressure in my chest as I beg Claire not to walk through that corn maze alone. The novel gives me serious 90s nostalgia, and I am here for it!
The prose is somewhat simple, making it easy to tear through these first pages. I shuddered and laughed out loud on the same page, and Alice is intelligent, though somewhat judgmental narrator who is all too relatable. Much like visiting a haunted house attraction, How to Survive Your Murder is fast-paced, and anxiety-inducing in the best way. We all know we shouldn't peep behind the door, walk down those stairs, or look over our shoulders, and yet, I can't wait to.