The Mary Shelley Club Book Review
The Mary Shelley Club
Author: Goldy Moldavsky
Description: New girl Rachel Chavez turns to horror movies for comfort, preferring stabby serial killers and homicidal dolls to the bored rich kids of Manhattan Prep...and to certain memories she’d preferred to keep buried.
Then Rachel is recruited by the Mary Shelley Club, a mysterious society of students who orchestrate Fear Tests, elaborate pranks inspired by urban legends and movie tropes. At first, Rachel embraces the power that comes with reckless pranking. But as the Fear Tests escalate, the competition turns deadly, and it’s clear Rachel is playing a game she can’t afford to lose.
Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆
Review: It’s been quite some time since I was as personally invested in a book as I was reading The Mary Shelley Club.
Despite the sporadic clunkiness of the writing, Goldy Moldavsky perfectly encapsulates the effectiveness and easiness of a captivating plot. The imagery, the emotion, the tension — it all grasps the reader into the high stakes drama. It’s a wonderful concoction of all horror classics and some.
If there’s anything to pick apart from the book, it’s the fact that it sorely misses a sequel.
P.S. I desperately need more Bram and Rachel scenes.
