Book Review: Dead Girl Blues by David Sodergren

If you like slashers and you don’t mind a lot of blood, guts and gore, then you need Dead Girl Blues in your possession IMMEDIATELY.

“There was so much blood. So much blood.”
After a young woman dies in Willow Zulawski’s arms, she is led down a dark path into the murky and seedy world of snuff films. Willow must take things into her own hands when those around her start showing up dead...

There’s a very small list of authors who when a new release drops I will clear the deck and read the book right away. Stephen King, Joe Hill... and David Sodergren. His horror novels thrill and excite me like no other. He perfectly blends his humour with old-school horror and the results are ridiculously bingeable!

Sodergren has a knack for delivering strong female protagonists, reminiscent of the final girl. His two most recent leads have offered LGBTQ+ representation and are fiesty women who speak their mind. I’m HERE for it!

I also love it when no character is safe. The stakes are raised, everyone’s neck is on the line. The plots are so unpredictable and the endings are always fucking INSANE. This ending in particular had me sitting staring at a blank wall like “woah. What the fuck.”

Dead Girl Blues is up there as one of the best horror books I’ve read so far this year, but be warned, this is not one for the faint of heart. However, if you love your horror dark, you’ll have a blast! 5 stars.

Johann
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