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Maeve Fly
Audiobook available · 8 hr
Maeve earns her living as a theme-park ice princess and spends her evenings in Los Angeles dive bars, studying misanthropic literary heroes. When her best friend’s brother arrives, she begins taking more dangerous inspiration from American Psycho.
From the publisher’s blurb
“a gleeful send-up to iconic horror villains”Read the full description at Publisher description, Tor Nightfire
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What makes it funny?
A director expects Maeve to recognize his importance; she replies that she only watches pornography. Her judgments of the other princess performers are just as vicious, complete with imaginary biographies built from their clothes and drinks.
The comedy at work
Maeve narrates in the same assured voice whether she is deflating Hollywood vanity or contemplating cruelty. Leede makes her social observations sharp enough to amuse while leaving her capacity for violence in view.
Try this if…
Readers who enjoy an abrasive, unsympathetic narrator and dark jokes amid extreme horror may find a match here.
Good to know
Expect graphic murder and mutilation, sexual material, and frequent profanity. The humor accompanies the violence throughout.
A few distinguishing details
- Theme-park princess hierarchies
- Hollywood status put-downs
More funny horror
Sources & further reading
- Publisher & opening excerpt
Publisher
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- Publishers Weekly review
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- Audiobook edition
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