By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every child's favourite ice princess.
By the neon night glow of the Sunset Strip, Maeve haunts the dive bars with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, imitating her misanthropic literary heroes.
But when Gideon Green - her best friend's brother - moves to town, he awakens something dangerous within her, and the world she knows suddenly shifts beneath her feet.
Untethered, Maeve ditches her discontented act and tries on a new persona. A bolder, bloodier one, inspired by the pages of American Psycho. Step aside Patrick Bateman, it's Maeve's turn with the knife.
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Every man shared the same fantasy, and it is this: He will marry a universally beloved sweetheart.- 1
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(Titan Books, 19 September 2023, e-galley, 288 pages, copy from the publisher via NetGalley)
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I had a great time reading Meave Fly. It's a strange, dark, trippy nightmare of a book which seems to work even though it shouldn't. It reminded me a lot of American Psycho which I really disliked but Maeve Fly ticks all the boxes for me. The books is very funny and very dark and both elements work well together. In some way Maeve is a monster, a serial killer but she's also real, flawed, and human and I felt great sympathy for her, stuck in a job she hates but can't let go, watching her beloved Grandma slowly die and trying to find ways not to lose her best friend. This is a gory nightmare you can't help enjoying.
