Plain Bad Heroines -

Emily M. Danforth

William Morrow

2020

640 páginas

21h 20m

ISBN-10: 0062942859

Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, author of a scandalous bestselling memoir that transforms these acolytes into bold rebels. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it The Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, a seeming paradise, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered, a copy of Mary’s book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, the School for Girls closes its doors forever—but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling manner.

Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer, Merritt Emmons, publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the “haunted and cursed” gilded-age institution. Her bestseller inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, opposite B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells, as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled—or perhaps just grimly

Resenhas (5)

4 (Muito bom)

Um livro com várias histórias muito interessantes, tecidas entre si com uma narrativa bem meta que é instigante e refrescante sem deixar de olhar para si mesma com humor. as personagens são deliciosas de acompanhar, e os lugares palco de uma maldição sombria.

tenho algumas ressalvas com os últimos 20% do livro, pois esperava algo muito mais BAM do que realmente aconteceu, mas o livro não pode ser o que eu esperava que fosse - só pode ser o que é. e pelo que é eu realmente gostei. me vi envolvida nas vidas dessas mulheres desafortunadas, nas fofocas do passado e do presente emaranhados como um só. me fez querer ainda mais histórias sáficas góticas :') e como eu queria ver esse filme!! sets amaldiçoados realmente despertam interesse pela obra.