Book Review: How To Survive Your Murder by Danielle Valentine

My thoughts:

Thank you Penguin Teen for my review copy.

I’m a big fan of the 90’s and Scream is my FAVORITE movie franchise so I jumped at the chance to check this book out. I was living for all the references as well. The plot started off strong, kinda of stalled in the middle, but went full speed ahead towards the end. I did figure out the killer early on, but the ending was wild. I was not expecting that at all and the author chose straight violence!!

If you’re looking for a good horror story for spooky season check this one out and then come to yell at me about that ending in my messages. I listened to the audiobook from PRH Audio and the narrator was very good and sounded like an actual teenager which can be hit or miss at times.

About the Book:

Scream meets Happy Death Day in this terrifying stand-alone horror novel from YA scream queen Danielle Valentine.

Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister’s murder trial.
 
And in the year since Claire’s death, Alice’s life has completely fallen apart. Her parents have gotten divorced, she’s moved into an apartment that smells like bologna, and she is being forced to face her sister’s killer and a courtroom full of people who doubt what she saw in the corn maze a year prior.
 
Claire was an all-American girl, beautiful and bubbly, and a theater star. Alice was a nerd who dreamed of becoming a forensic pathologist and would rather stay at home to watch her favorite horror movies than party. Despite their differences, they were bonded by sisterhood and were each other’s best friends.
 
Until Claire was taken away from her.
 
On the first day of the murder trial, as Alice prepares to give her testimony, she is knocked out by a Sidney Prescott look-alike in the courthouse bathroom. When she wakes up, it is Halloween night a year earlier, the same day Claire was murdered. Alice has until midnight to save her sister and find the real killer before he claims another victim.