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Cargando... How to Survive Your Murderpor Danielle Valentine
   Books Read in 2023 (3,764) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  Familiar_Diversions | Feb 26, 2024 |   I have to admit slasher books are not always my favorite. I sometimes struggle to feel connected to the main characters and then the story just does not capture. Some of this books struggled with this at the the start. Since this book was so short, it had a bit of the not connecting to the characters. But the last 50 pages left me shocked and stunend. I loved the really shocking twsits and turns and wonder if we might be getting more books. It was really shocking read, but want to get clousure in future books. But it def packed a punch, i loved the time taveling elements and also the focus on the sister dyanimcs. I will hope for a sequel!!! (  ) lmauro123 | Dec 28, 2023 | I have to admit slasher books are not always my favorite. I sometimes struggle to feel connected to the main characters and then the story just does not capture. Some of this books struggled with this at the the start. Since this book was so short, it had a bit of the not connecting to the characters. But the last 50 pages left me shocked and stunend. I loved the really shocking twsits and turns and wonder if we might be getting more books. It was really shocking read, but want to get clousure in future books. But it def packed a punch, i loved the time taveling elements and also the focus on the sister dyanimcs. I will hope for a sequel!!! ( ) lmauro123 | Dec 28, 2023 | So of course what happens is a carnage fest as character after character get killed as we the reader have to try and guess who the killer really is. Must admit I guessed wrong and was disappointed with the end of the book. Read it and be the judge yourself. Oh for MATURE readers BTW as one chapter is entitled "Stay out of the F.....ng Cornfield!" (  ) nicsreads | Dec 22, 2023 | Omaha, Nebraska, Contemporary (p.2022) 1 Horror Movie Aficionado 1 Final Girl Inspired Angel(?) 1 Mysterious Quirky Dude 1 Incel Manifesto 1 Flash Sideways 2 Rules: 1. Find Out What Really Happened 2. Don't Die At Least 1 Murder in a Cornfield 1 Death of a Beloved Sister OR So Many More Deaths 1 Family Torn Apart 1 Podcast in Truly Bad Taste Surprise!PlotTwists! The Short Version: I am NOT a horror/slasher movie fan, but watching Alice try to apply the Final Girl rules to her actual life as she runs through a cornfield with someone panting at her heels...while also acknowledging that the audience would be shouting advice at her if she were in a movie - well that is subversive meta fun. And I love subversive meta fun. Alice Lawrence's life is torn apart when a Halloween party turns into bloodsoaked horror in a corn maze and she sees her beloved sister's death. But all is not always as it seems and when her wish to have accompanied her sister into the corn maze is granted, Alice is transported back in time to a year ago with instructions to figure out what REALLY happened before midnight and she can keep the changes she makes - and Not to Die. But as Alice attempts to warn the others who were on the Kill List, bodies keep dropping and she uncovers a ton of unsavory secrets. The plot twists kept on coming, and while I anticipated some of them from the outset, I was still kept guessing (and second-guessing myself). Not my usual genre (and this hasn't converted me to horror fandom), but I appreciated the narrative voice, the suspense and the twistiness. ( ) Caramellunacy | Oct 13, 2023 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Horror.
Thriller.
Young Adult Fiction.
Young Adult Literature.
HTML:Scream meets Happy Death Day in this terrifying stand-alone horror novel from YA scream queen Danielle Valentine. "This terrifying book reads like a horror movie. No, wait. It has the suspense and shocks and screams of TEN horror movies in one. Great nasty fun!" â??R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps and Fear Street Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sisterâ??s murder trial. And in the year since Claireâ??s death, Aliceâ??s life has completely fallen apart. Her parents have gotten divorced, sheâ??s moved into an apartment that smells like bologna, and she is being forced to face her sisterâ??s killer and a courtroom full of people who doubt what she saw in the corn maze a year prior. Claire was an all-American girl, beautiful and bubbly, and a theater star. Alice was a nerd who dreamed of becoming a forensic pathologist and would rather stay at home to watch her favorite horror movies than party. Despite their differences, they were bonded by sisterhood and were each otherâ??s best friends. Until Claire was taken away from her. On the first day of the murder trial, as Alice prepares to give her testimony, she is knocked out by a Sidney Prescott look-alike in the courthouse bathroom. When she wakes up, it is Halloween night a year earlier, the same day Claire was murdered. Alice has until midnight to save her sister and find the real killer before he c No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This has loads of horror movie references and yet is conspicuously missing any mention of Happy Death Day, a movie with a similar premise. Anyway, this was an impulse purchase that I expected would be mediocre at best. I did not predict how angry it would end up making me.
Alice may take the prize for heroine with the worst friends. Prior to Claire's death, Alice and her friends had been planning some kind of horror movie-related podcast. After Claire's death, they started the podcast without her and made its focus true crimes looked at through the lens of horror movies - basically, what could the victims of these crimes have done to better align with horror movie rules that might have allowed them to survive? If that isn't horrible enough, one of the victims they talk about, against Alice's wishes, is Claire.
Alice's crush on Wes didn't make much more sense than her friendships. The author tried really hard to convince readers that Wes was some kind of mysterious hottie, but mostly he just sounded like some kind of weird loner.
Really, though, he was bait intended to convince readers that this was going to wrap up with a cliched and mediocre ending. Instead, the ending was utterly unhinged and aggravating. I don't even know where to begin. It only made sense in the most shallow way - there were holes you could drive a truck through, and about a billion unanswered questions. The bonus chapter didn't add anything to the story and, in fact, somehow just made things worse.
Extras:
Bonus chapter (do some editions of this book not have this chapter? I wasn't sure what made it a bonus) and a Q&A with the author (where Happy Death Day is mentioned).
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.) (