Jamie has been working for a year on her dissertation: “All’s Fair in Love and Gore: The Intersection of Romantic Comedies and Slasher Films in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries”, towards her PhD in Cinema Studies at NYU. She takes a break from her studies to have a night out with her best friend, Laurie. They are going speed dating.
After a promising start to the evening it becomes apparent to Jamie that life is imitating art as she and Laurie find themselves in the middle of a slasher-movie scenario. Fortunately, Jamie has memorised a list of ten ways to survive a slasher, and the book then follows the story of the rest of the evening.
Wild and wacky, weird and wonderful and all that sort of thing, this is an immensely entertaining book, and like nothing I have ever read before. The rom-com bits are sweet and touching amongst all the gore and had me hoping desperately for a happy ending; I mean, I’ve watched lots of rom-coms but my only experiences of slasher movies have been accidental glimpses as I leave a room where someone else is watching one, so I didn’t know how it would end.
It was a riotous read, and great fun, and I would recommend it to anyone whose sense of humour has no set boundaries! Top marks, Shailee Thompson.
Published by Simon & Schuster.
Great review. I must read it 👍
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