The New Girl
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Don't mess with the creepy new girl
Ryan Devlin, a predator with a past, has been forced to take a job as a handyman at an exclusive private school, Crossley College. He's losing his battle to suppress his growing fascination with a new girl who seems to have a strange effect on the children around her. Tara Marais fills her empty days by volunteering at Crossley's library. Tara is desperate, but unable, to have a baby of her own, so she makes Reborns—eerily lifelike newborn dolls. She's delighted when she receives a commission from the mysterious "Vader Batiss," but horrified when she sees the photograph of the baby she's been asked to create. Still, she agrees to Batiss's strange contract, unaware of the consequences if she fails to deliver the doll on time. Both Tara and Ryan are being drawn into a terrifying scheme, one that will have an impact on every pupil at Crossley College.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Grey, a joint pseudonym for Sarah Lotz and Louis Greenberg, effectively mixes horror and black comedy in this third novel (after The Mall and The Ward) of "the downside," a weird alternate dimension that abuts our own. The latest immigrant from the downside is Jane Smith, the strange new student at Crossley College in Johannesburg, who's planning to cull "browns" (i.e., humans) for transference to the downside . Her first victims are Ryan Devlin, the school's lecherous maintenance man, and Tara Marais, a school library volunteer. Grey's downsiders learn how to pass as humans by watching outdated television shows and movies, and their antics provide comic counterpoint to the missteps of the tragically fallible human characters. Though the plot meanders a bit, Grey provides a deliciously unsettling depiction of a deeply inhuman world that nonetheless aspires to imitate ours.
