How to Survive Your Murder

By Danielle Valentine

Book Overview

Scream meets Happy Death Day in this terrifying young adult horror novel from New York Times bestselling scream queen Danielle Valentine.

"This terrifying book reads like a horror movie. No, wait. It has the suspense and shocks and screams of TEN horror movies in one. Great nasty fun " --R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps and Fear Street

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593619587
• ISBN13: 9780593619582
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Razorbill
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Cue the bodies piling up!

I liked most of this book but it earned itself only three stars because of that ending which is very abrupt and shocking and not good. Plus it did not resolve anything! I like my scary, slasher, horror books and movies to have a better ending than that. I mean, what is the point of going back in time to save your sister from being murdered and turning it out like that? I was good with most of the story. It had a good premise with the murder of Claire right at the beginning and then a year later, right before the trial of Owen (the supposed murderer), Alice meets look a like Sidney Prescott and is given a change to change things and possibly save her sister, if she can figure out the truth before midnight. Cue the dead bodies that keep piling up and suspects right and left. I was good for that part and I did guess the twist but then it went off the rails too much for me. I will say, the cover is awesome though and it was a fast read.