Books On Our Radar: Your Lonely Nights are Over by Adam Sass
I just love how #SpookySeason is officially in full swing, no seriously, it really is! It’s #Hotumn (stolen from Jeff Zentner of course, the king of Hotumn), and if other holiday seasons start with months in advance, so is #SpookySzn. If you don’t believe me, just go into a craft or home store, it’s all Autumn/Halloween already. So of course we are rolling with it here at #TeamBookCrushin and we are bringing you all the spooky recs like Your Lonely Nights are Over by Adam Sass! Queer horror is where it’s AT right now! Yes, Queer Horror, you heard that right, horror has traditionally been extremely embraced by the queer community, and now we are finally seeing publishing catch up as we keep getting more & more queer genre books! So if you love 90’s slasher horror like Scream, then you will eat up Adam’s upcoming release, hitting shelves September 12th!
Your Lonely Nights Are Over
by Adam SassPublished by: Viking Books for Young Readers
on September 12, 2023
Genres: Horror, LGBTQIA+, Thriller, Young Adult
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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 . . .
