Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch

by Codie Crowley

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781368103480
Publisher:	Disney Hyperion Digital
Publication date:	08/06/2024
Sold by:	DISNEY PUBLISHING WORLDWIDE -EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Codie Crowley

Editorial Reviews

A wholly original exploration of what it means to be a modern female, with a depth of rage that echoes into the afterlife.” — Mindy McGinnis, Edgar Award–winning author of Female of the Species

"A delight to read." —Paste Magazine

"Readers who love thrillers and stories of 'unlikable' female characters will eat this one up." —BookRiot

"A darkly funny adventure horror with a good bit of revenge thrown in. For all the weirdo girlies who like a little female rage, as a treat." —Hey YA by BookRiot

"Debut author Crowley combines Stephen King’s Pet Sematary with Courtney Summers’s Sadie in this supernatural thriller. . . . Sardonic first-person narration by rough-around-the-edges Annie is further enhanced by snappy repartee, both of which elevate a plot that covers well-trod ground to a surprising and earned conclusion." —Publishers Weekly
 
"Horror-fueled adventure. . . . The visceral language in Crowley’s debut punctuates the nonstop action and brings the eerie supernatural scenes to life." —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

A wholly original exploration of what it means to be a modern female, with a depth of rage that echoes into the afterlife.”

author of Female of the Species Mindy McGinnis

2024-05-30
A dead girl seeks the truth about her violent murder in this horror-fueled adventure.

Bad girl—“to be honest, I think I’d rather be dead than good”—Annie Lane wakes up after her death in a freezing river. She’s on top of New Jersey’s Resurrection Peak, near a desolate, ghost-filled town with no clear memory of how she got there. Annie finds community at Chapel House, an abandoned mansion where she meets a crew of the similarly undead. They include Sam, a James Dean look-alike whom she becomes attracted to. With Sam’s occasional help, Annie begins an investigation to find her murderer, starting with confronting her musician ex-boyfriend, Morgan “Gun” Donovan, whose show she attended the night of her death. She also discovers that Maura, her Princeton-bound, aspiring journalist best friend, has been missing since the night she died, and Annie becomes determined to find her. She gets no support from her cruel and neglectful mother, but Maura’s dad, who’s the local sheriff, has always treated Annie like she was his own daughter. The visceral language in Crowley’s debut punctuates the nonstop action and brings the eerie supernatural scenes to life. Unexplained plot holes make for uneven storytelling, however, and the lack of clear worldbuilding is frustrating. Main characters are cued white.

A plot-driven revenge story that struggles to clearly set the scene. (author’s note with content warnings)(Paranormal thriller. 14-18)

Kirkus Reviews