After surviving a home invasion, Rachel Chavez turns to horror movies to cope. She becomes utterly obsessed with horror, so when she switches schools, she seeks out a mysterious club suspected of orchestrating elaborate scare pranks on its students.
They call themselves the Mary Shelley Club. However, once she’s finally initiated into their ranks, she discovers that the games they play are more dangerous than she anticipated.
The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky is a wonderful, entertaining ode to slasher horror, chock full of horror movies references. However, I think the story is so preoccupied with its own premise and horror tropes that it leaves little room for character development. Most of the characters--asides from Rachel and Bram--are unfortunately one-dimensional caricatures, so ultimately, I found myself more caught in the pranks and less emotionally invested in the characters themselves.
Thank you, NetGalley and Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.
Book Details:
Publication Date : April 13, 2021Publisher : Henry Holt and Co. (Imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group)ISBN : 1250230101
Pages : 480
Pages : 480
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