Your Lonely Nights Are Over by Adam Sass
Scream meets Clueless in this YA horror from Adam Sass in which two gay teen BFFs find their friendship tested when a serial killer starts targeting their school’s Queer Club.
Dearie and Cole are inseparable, unlikeable, and (in bad luck for them) totally unbelievable.
From the day they met, Dearie and Cole have been two against the world. But whenever something bad happens at Stone Grove High School, they get blamed. Why? They’re beautiful, flirtatious, dangerously clever queen bees, and they’re always ready to call out their fellow students. But they’ve never faced a bigger threat than surviving senior year, when Mr. Sandman, a famous, never-caught serial killer emerges from a long retirement—and his hunting ground is their school Queer Club.
As evidence and bodies begin piling up and suspicion points at Dearie and Cole, they will need to do whatever it takes to unmask the real killer before they and the rest of Queer Club are taken down. But they’re not getting away from the killer without a fight.
Along the way, they must confront dark truths hidden beneath the surface of their small desert community. When the world is stacked against them and every flop they know is a suspect, can Dearie and Cole stop Mr. Sandman’s rampage? Or will their lonely nights soon be over . . .
This was fun. Definitely had a horror movie feel to it.
The book starts off by talking about a serial killer in San Diego fifty years earlier. There is a new docuseries and the kids at Stone Grove HS in Arizona are all watching it. Mr Sandman was never caught. He always left a message and 24 hours later, the person was killed. There was another message left. Mr Sandma went after lonely people. When one student is killed and another badly injured, there is a note and everyone believes Mr Sandman is back. And it appears that this Mr Sandman is going after queer people or people that openly support them. The kills start adding up. Dearie and Cole are best friends (sometimes with benefits) and they’re both accused in the beginning. Dearie seems to be cleared, but so many people believe that Cole is the killer.
The book is horror and fun, but it also has some pretty heavy topics including abuse. Please read the author’s note about these things.
I gave this book 4 1/2 stars.
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