Celia wakes up in a house that’s supposed to be hers. There’s a little girl who claims to be her daughter and a man who claims to be her husband, but Celia knows this family—and this life—is not hers…
Allie is supposed to be on a fun weekend trip—but then her friend’s boyfriend unexpectedly invites the group to a remote cabin in the woods. No one else believes Allie, but she is sure that something about this trip is very, very wrong…Maggie just wants to be home with her daughter, but she’s in a dangerous situation and she doesn’t know who put her there or why. She’ll have to fight with everything she has to survive…
Christina Henry’s Good Girls Don’t Die introduces a clever and ambitious premise with three different women facing three different movie-like scenarios, but its execution unfortunately falls flat.
This book had so much potential for creating a meta-commentary on the horror and dystopian genres, but instead it leans heavily on movies references (i.e. The Stepford Wives and The Hunger Games) and tropes throughout without adding anything new or having anything intelligent to say about them.
Heck, at the very least it could have been entertaining and go the satire route like Cabin in the Woods.
Instead we get a rehashed, watered-down version of stories we’re already familiar with--complete with non-compelling characters’ whose fates I didn’t care an iota about, and it was overall an milquetoast and underwhelming read.
Thank you, NetGalley and Berkley, for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
This book had so much potential for creating a meta-commentary on the horror and dystopian genres, but instead it leans heavily on movies references (i.e. The Stepford Wives and The Hunger Games) and tropes throughout without adding anything new or having anything intelligent to say about them.
Heck, at the very least it could have been entertaining and go the satire route like Cabin in the Woods.
Instead we get a rehashed, watered-down version of stories we’re already familiar with--complete with non-compelling characters’ whose fates I didn’t care an iota about, and it was overall an milquetoast and underwhelming read.
Thank you, NetGalley and Berkley, for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Book Details:
Publication Date : November 14, 2023
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN: 0593638190
Pages : 336
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