Lord of the Fly Fest
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2.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Influencers trapped on a deserted island with a murder suspect in their midst—what could possibly go wrong? Fans of White Lotus will love Lord of the Fly Fest, a hilarious and gripping take on Lord of the Flies from New York Times bestselling author Goldy Moldavsky.
Rafi Francisco needs a splashy case to put her true-crime podcast on the map. Her plan? A murder investigation, of course. She’s heading to Fly Fest, an exclusive music festival on a Caribbean island, to interview River Stone, the pop star who rocketed to fame after his girlfriend’s mysterious disappearance. And her interview is going to expose him as the killer she’s sure he is.
But when Rafi—and hordes of influencers—arrive at Fly Fest, the dreamy Caribbean getaway they were promised turns out to be a nightmare. Soon, Rafi is fighting for her life against power-hungry beauty gurus and spotty WiFi. And as the festival from hell continues with no end in sight, and Rafi finds herself growing closer to River, she begins to discover that his secrets have much bigger consequences than she ever imagined.
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In this riotous satirical thriller from Moldavsky (The Mary Shelley Club), true crime podcaster Rafi Francisco, 18, drains her savings to attend Fly Fest, a weeklong concert in the Bahamas that recalls the real-life Fyre Festival. Rafi feels that she has nothing in common with the other attendees, who are mostly wealthy social media influencers, but she's desperate for access to musical guest River Stone, the subject of the next episode of her podcast, Musical Mysteries. River publicly claims that his disappeared girlfriend ditched him on a camping trip years before, but Rafi believes that River murdered her, and plans to coax a confession from him. When the attendees arrive, however, they find the island deserted. The "luxury" accommodations are FEMA tents, there's no clean water or cell service, and River is the only talent who's showed. Rafi hopes they stay stranded long enough for her to pose her questions, but when a girl goes missing after hiking with River, Rafi fears they're marooned with a serial killer. While the central mystery is intriguing, it's the outlandish influencer cast and their Lord of the Flies–inspired antics that buoy this swiftly paced, darkly funny indictment of internet culture. Rafi cues as Latinx; most others read as white. Ages 14–up.
