Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch by Codie Crowley
Genre: YA / Thriller / Romance
Age 14-17
Pages: 304
Publisher : Disney Publishing Group [Hyperion]
BACK OF THE BOOK:
Murdered bad girl Annie Lane is back from the grave and hellbent on revenge . . . she just has to figure out who killed her.
This fast-paced thriller by a talented debut delivers a horror-infused hunt for justice that’s at once furiously feminist, darkly funny, and utterly satisfying.
Between her careless mom, her cheating ex-boyfriend, and her rotten reputation around town, Annie Lane is used to being left behind. But she’s never been left for dead before–until she wakes up to find her body’s been dumped on a mountain rumored to raise the dead.
Annie can’t remember who killed her, but she’ll stop at nothing to figure it out and make them pay. Because girls like her don’t get justice unless they take it for themselves.
Codie Crowley’s propulsive debut presents a furious and cathartic thriller skewering society’s condemnation of “unlikeable” girls.
REVIEW:
Here Lies A Vengeful Bitch by Codie Crowley is a Young Adult, thriller romance published by Disney Publishing House.
The story is set in an American town in a very rural area. The protagonist, Annie, finds herself in a river with no memory of the events leading up to that moment.
Meeting a group of people living nearby, Annie forms new friendships while on her journey to fill in the blanks in her memory while also serving some vengeance. There big question through the novel is who left her there, and where is her friend.
The author has wonderfully created a group of characters that the reader will find endearing against the backdrop of a darker story. The themes of love, friendship, family, and enemies play thought the story with supernatural elements running alongside.
When I read the blurb, this story gave me vibes of The Crow, which was my favourite graphic novel and movie franchise growing up. Although this story is very different it gave me those same feels throughout the book. What stood out for me was how the author has taken time to really make the characters come alive on the pages with their own unique personalities and in some cases, language. I’m thinking primarily of Sam who has a very individual way of speaking that for some reason just made me smile.
An amazing thriller with a bit of romance thrown in but in my view the ‘whodunnit’ element was brilliant and just had me turning the page and guessing all the way.
Buy Links
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746212/here-lies-a-vengeful-bitch-by-codie-crowley/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Here-Lies-Vengeful-Bitch-Crowley/dp/1368099904
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