How to Survive a Slasher
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4.4 • 7 Ratings
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Publisher Description
You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight meets Scream in this YA slasher that turns classic horror tropes on their heads from Stonewall Honor-winning author Justine Pucella Winans.
Few people can say they faced the infamous Satterville Wolf Man and lived. But CJ Smith can.
She doesn't talk about that, though.
CJ has survived the horror movie that is her life by following one rule: blend in and stay out of it. But that's hard to do when your trauma gets turned into a bestselling book series. The Slasherville books are a true crime phenomenon, documenting the Wolf Man massacres that changed CJ's life forever. CJ hates everything about the books and their fans, but at this point she's just grateful there aren't any more murders to write about.
Until one day when an unpublished Slasherville book shows up on her doorstep predicting new Wolf Man killings. CJ is sure it's a bad prank. But then the events in the book start coming true, and when CJ breaks her one rule, the Final Girl-the person who, according to the book, was supposed to stop the Wolf Man-ends up dead. Suddenly, blending in and staying out of it is not an option, and CJ will have to use everything she knows about the rules of horror to make it out alive.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Queer and gender-fluid 17-year-old Cassiopeia Jane Smith—CJ—lives in Satterville, Ohio, with her mother, 13-year-old brother Orion, and six-year-old twin siblings Leo and Lyra. Satterville is also known as Slaughterville, the setting of horror novels by Moon Satter, an anonymous writer whose works feature fictionalized accounts of murders committed by still-at-large serial killer, Wolf Man. Though CJ's father survived the first attack in 1996, he was killed in a second one six years ago—an attack that CJ survived. Now their mother trains the children in self-defense in case the Wolf Man should ever return. It's an event that seems unlikely, until an unpublished Moon Satter manuscript arrives at CJ's door. Mixing tongue-in-cheek references to horror classics like Scream and Friday the 13th with an engaging meta premise, Winans (Wishbone) delivers a cheeky adventure thriller. Via CJ's dry and humorous first-person POV, the author injects fun into this original novel, which features gruesomely violent murders alongside heartfelt character interactions. The Smiths read as white; supporting characters are intersectionally diverse. Ages 14–up.
