Gossip Girl meets Happy Death Day in this YA horror novel following high school outcast and anonymous social media gossip Ruby, who comes face-to-face with her own ghost dressed in a blood-splattered prom dress. With less than a week until the dance, Ruby must unmask her killer—or die trying.
Ruby is a scholarship senior at elite Oleander High School with a chip on her shoulder and an attitude to match—which she puts to good use as the infamous local anonymous gossip blogger ReputationKiller. When she’s outed as the voice behind the account, the entire town turns against her.
But after she’s scared witless by a vision of her own ghost dressed in a blood-splattered prom dress, she is faced with an awful truth. Someone out there doesn’t just hate her—they want her dead.
With less than a week until the prom, Ruby starts investigating. Turns out Oleander Bay isn’t the picture-perfect resort town it purports to be. With so many secrets, scandals, and people hell-bent on covering them up at all costs, the murderer could be anyone. Can Ruby beat the clock counting down to prom—and her death—and survive the night?
Content Warning: blood, financial insecurity, violence, murder, animal death.
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AMY CHRISTINE PARKER is the author of the critically acclaimed duology, GATED and ASTRAY as well as the standalone thriller, SMASH & GRAB. GATED was a nominee for both the Sequoyah Book Award and the South Caroline Junior Book Award and was a YALSA Quick Pick for reluctant readers. Amy’s latest novel–her first horror/thriller mashup, FLIGHT 171, releases in October 2022. She writes full-time from her home near Tampa, Florida, where she lives with her husband, their two daughters, and two very mischievous cats.
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Website: https://www.amychristineparker.com/
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When I was reading the synopsis I realised that this was not your usual Young Adult Thriller. Here we have Ruby who to me was not as snowy white as you would expect but that is what I liked about the book. I loved the friendship group of Anton and Xavier they were so cute and funny.
I loved how Amy plotted the story during and after an event which no one will ever forget and adds another element which I am not going to say but what you get is a very clever addition. Then afterwards you think Amy will be finished but oh no she has an extra little something up her sleeves.
I highly recommend if you are looking for something extra in the Young Adult Thriller genre You're Dead to Me is a perfect read.
For all the above reasons You're Dead to Me receives 4 stars.
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