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Oct 18, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | CJ Leede
CJ Leede’s new novel, AMERICAN RAPTURE, blends horror into a traditional coming-of-age tale, gives it a healthy dose of romance, and burns American religious hypocrisy and climate crisis short-sightedness to the ground. Lest you think this sounds like too much for one book, trust Leede to manage it and to do so with complex characters, an interesting landscape, and a good amount of blood and gore. Sophie Allen is not a typical teenager.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
horrordna.com | Tony Jones |CJ Leede
Written by Tony Jones
Published by Tor Nightfire
Written by CJ Leede2024, 384 pages, FictionReleased on 15th October 2024
Review:
The number of horror novels which take sideswipes (or direct punches to the face) at religion continue to drop at pace, with American Rapture being one of the most striking yet.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
bookweb.org | Kay Chronister |Rumaan Alam |Freya Marske |CJ Leede
Sep 04 2024 The October 2024 Indie Next List Preview Printer-friendly versionHere are the 25 Indie Next List and 6 Now in Paperback picks on the October 2024 Indie Next List flier. The October title list is also viewable as a collection on Edelweiss and on the Indie Next List page as an Excel file alongside PDFs for the month’s flier and shelf-talker templates.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
torpublishinggroup.com | CJ Leede
Available From: ISBN: 9781250857927 ISBN: 9781250857934 ASIN: B0CQHMBG1Y ISBN: 9781250367273 ASIN: B0CWBBDVCV From CJ Leede, the author of Maeve Fly, comes a scorching new apocalyptic novel. Neil Gaiman’s American Gods meets The Last of Us in this epic and sweeping story about the end of the world as we know it. A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust.
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Oct 7, 2023 | 
belloflostsouls.net | Christopher Golden |Leopoldo Gout |Matt Ruff |CJ Leede
3 Minute ReadNeed an escape that will give you nightmares? Check out these new horror novels from some amazing, award winning authors. This suburban horror has the Stephen King seal of approval. It’s Halloween 1984, and the lives of two families in Coventry, Massachusetts are becoming tangled in a curse. Mysterious children are hiding among the trick-or-treaters of all ages – children dressed in vintage costumes with faded, eerie makeup.
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Jun 22, 2023 | 
largeheartedboy.com | CJ Leede
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. CJ Leede’s novel Maeve Fly is one of the funniest and most visceral debuts I have read in years, an instant feminist slasher classic.
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Jun 6, 2023 | 
tor.com | CJ Leede
As a horror writer, it is my job to stare at everyday objects and think, How might that item be used to the most horrific end possible? (Fictionally!) But recently, I have been finding more and more crossover between the terrifying and the alluring, and I’ve come to the conclusion that the very best items are both, and that fear and desire might be two sides of the very same coin (…or nail gun). Here are a few of my recent favorites.
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Jun 6, 2023 | 
booksoup.com | CJ Leede
By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every child's favorite ice princess. By the neon night glow of the Sunset Strip, Maeve haunts the dive bars with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, imitating her misanthropic literary heroes. But when Gideon Green - her best friend's brother - moves to town, he awakens something dangerous within her, and the world she knows suddenly shifts beneath her feet.
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Jun 6, 2023 | 
powells.com | CJ Leede
SynopsisA provocative debut that is both a blood-soaked love letter to Los Angeles and a gleeful send-up to iconic horror villains, CJ Leede's Maeve Fly will thrill fans of Stephen Graham Jones' My Heart is a Chainsaw and Caroline Kepnes' You series. By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every child's favorite ice princess.
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May 18, 2023 | 
tor.com | CJ Leede
Step aside Patrick Bateman, it’s Maeve’s turn with the knife. We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Maeve Fly by CJ Leede, out from Nightfire on June 6. VAn hour or so later, I lean in close to the bougainvillea outside the tomb of Tower Records, still basking in the afterglow of the most delicious downfall of another, the demise of a woman who thinks herself chosen, who believes herself to be untouchable. Bougainvillea are the ultimate microcosmic display of this city. Exquisite, exotic, erotic.
