It’s said Daphne still stalks the streets of Samhatten looking for revenge. A socially outcast 7ft woman who died in mysterious circumstances many years ago named Daphne. One of the girls, as you do, tells a creepy story about a local legend. Seventeen-year-old Kit Lamb is an up and coming basketball star and on the night before a big game, she and her teammates are having a sleepover. Whatever you do, don’t think about Daphne. There was no way on earth I was going to let this book pass me by! If you’re a regular visitor to the blog then you may be aware that when we’re talking horror, the slasher genre is my favourite sub-genre. Particularly as Daphne is billed as a reimagining of the slasher genre. So a new book from the author was an instant ‘must read’ for me. Josh Malerman is the author behind the literary and Netflix sensation, Bird Boxwhich I LOVED beyond words and as a result, featured in my top ten books of 2019. Daphne was published by Orion Books in hardcover, audio and digital formats on 20th September 2022 with the paperback hitting shelves on 11th May 2023.

Today I am delighted to share my review of Daphne by Josh Malerman. Mixing a nostalgic coming-of-age story and an instantly iconic female villain with an innovative new vision of classic horror, this is an unforgettable thriller as only Josh Malerman could imagine it.”

Or else the summer of her lifetime will become the last summer of her life. Now it’s a race against time as Kit searches for the truth behind the legend and learns to face her own fears. They also say that Daphne is still out there, obsessed with revenge, and will appear anytime someone thinks about her to kill again.Īfter Kit hears the story, her teammates vanish, one by one, and Kit begins to suspect that the stories about Daphne are real…and to fear that her own mind is conjuring the killer. And some say that Daphne is a murderer herself. Some say she was murdered, others that she died by her own hand. The last summer before her life begins.īut the night before the big game, one of Kit’s players tells a ghost story about Daphne, a girl who went to their school many years ago and died under mysterious circumstances. The last summer with her high school basketball team, and with Dana, her best friend. It’s the last summer for Kit Lamb: the last summer before college. A brutal, enigmatic woman stalks a girls high school basketball team in a reimagining of the slasher genre by the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box.

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