Maeve Fly

Books | Fiction / Horror

CJ Leede

A USA Today bestseller!Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award • Winner of the Splatterpunk Award for Best Novel • A Bram Stoker Award Nominee • One of Esquire's Best Horror Books of the Year • An Indie Next Pick!"This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight."—Stephen Graham JonesA provocative and unforgettable debut that is both a blood-soaked love letter to Los Angeles and a gleeful send-up to iconic horror villains, Maeve Fly will thrill fans of slashers and the macabre. By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every child’s favorite ice princess. By the neon night glow of the Sunset Strip, Maeve haunts the dive bars with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, imitating her misanthropic literary heroes.But when Gideon Green - her best friend’s brother - moves to town, he awakens something dangerous within her, and the world she knows suddenly shifts beneath her feet.Untethered, Maeve ditches her discontented act and tries on a new persona. A bolder, bloodier one, inspired by the pages of American Psycho. Step aside Patrick Bateman, it’s Maeve’s turn with the knife."An apocalyptic Anaheim Psycho." —Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted HouseAlso by CJ Leede:American Rapture

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Author

CJ Leede

Pages

288

Publisher

Tor Publishing Group

Published Date

2023-06-06

ISBN

1250857856 9781250857859

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"Extremely slow at the beginning, but the ending was a wild ride. American psycho meets Frozen's Elsa. Had a great premise, but overall was hoping for more. 3.75 stars."

The Lazy Reader

"I really wasn't crazy about this. What does it say about me that I was more bored than anything? Just not a book for me personally."

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Stephanie Bartley

"Holy F*ck! I have no words! The bloodiest darkest Princess story meets Prince you can ever imagine. It was kinda fabulous lol."

Jodie L

"Feminist Anti-Hero descendent of Norman Bates and Patrick Bateman. I love this book and it’s worth the read if your a fan of American Pscyho or want a strong kick ass female protagonist."

Just Another Final Girl (Brittany Levely)review

"What the f*** did I just read? Debaucherous Misanthropic "not like other girls" Girl from Hell, this character was a crazy perspective to experience through [4.25☆] - TW: graphic sex & SA, please research the specific trigger warnings things get.. weird "

Lars

"Great horror book! Haven't read one as good as this for a long time! The story of a girl that seems so normal in the beginning. She works as a princess at a theme park with her best friend. Then her best friend's brother comes to town. There is lots of sex and they are spending lots of time together. She is also taking care of her grandmother who is dying. As Halloween comes nearer, she becomes stranger. She looses her job and has to find something to fill her days. There is a lot of killing then."

Darli Skaar

"I was sitting at a 3 star rating for most of this book, but that ending shot it up to a 5 for me. I love it when the author sticks the landing. I highly recommend for fans of Patrick Bateman, Amy Dunne, David Fincher, William Shakespeare and the movies Pearl and Jennifer’s Body."

Tosh P

"4.5 stars <br/>I loved this but y'all better read your trigger warnings before you get into it<br/>...<br/>What if an extreme horror novel was actually smart? It subverts the "what if Patrick Bateman but girl" expectations at every turn. Fascinating setting, addicting characters, inescapable horrors. Just brilliant. RIP to Frozen."