The Blonde Dies First
Discover the brand-new YA horror thriller from the author of Their Vicious Games
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- 65,00 kr
Publisher Description
What happens when a horror movie becomes reality? Karen M. McManus meets Scream in this spine-tingling YA horror thriller that cleverly explores themes of race and class.
Devon Harris doesn't have much planned for the summer - until her sister, Drew, invites Devon to a very exclusive private school party.
Out of her element, Devon commits to being game at everything. Even when the private school kids ask her if there are fights at her school. Even when they ask her if her box braids are her real hair. Even when those weird ass kids pull out a Ouija board.
But this seemingly harmless bit of fun has terrible consequences. Something has been released, and only a week later it's hunting Devon, Drew and their friends. Hunting them in an eerily familiar way . . .
The real-life horror movie has begun. The blonde is up first, then the asshole - right up to the Final Girl. Unless the murderous cycle can be broken, they're all going to be next.
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Black 17-year-old Devon Harris is determined not to be forgotten when her identical twin sister Drew graduates from high school a year early and inevitably leaves home for college. Though they've never been "the twins of sitcoms old," Devon plans a perfect summer of fun and bonding; after all, this is the last opportunity she'll have to spend time with Drew and their four neighborhood friends. After the crew mess around with a Ouija board, a "knockoff Slenderman" demon appears, dropping the group into a real-life slasher film and throwing a wrench into Devon's "Best Summer Ever." While blonde Devon evades the demon's initial attempt to kill her, she's not ready to celebrate—after all, isn't the blonde supposed to die first? In keeping the stakes high and the twists coming, Wellington (Their Vicious Games) deftly dismantles horror genre cliches in a script-flipping hair-raiser that pointedly examines gentrification's impact on communities. Murky logic occasionally drives the supernatural chills, but the story sizzles with fully drawn protagonists, complex relationships, and slow-burn romance as portrayed through Devon, whose struggles to understand Drew and express her love for another girl haunt her throughout every step of this subversive Brooklyn-set summer thriller. Ages 14–up.
