How to Survive a Slasher

De: Justine Pucella Winans

Narrado por: SJ Valiquette

Bloomsbury presents How to Survive a Slasher by Justine Pucella Winans, read by SJ Valiquette.

You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight meets Scream in this YA slasher that turns classic horror tropes on their heads.

Few people can say they faced the infamous Satterville Wolf Man and lived. But CJ Smith can.

She doesn’t talk about that, though.

CJ has survived the horror movie that is her life by following one rule: blend in and stay out of it. But that’s hard to do when your trauma gets turned into a bestselling book series. The Slasherville books are a true crime phenomenon, documenting the Wolf Man massacres that changed CJ’s life forever. CJ hates everything about the books and their fans, but at this point she’s just grateful there aren’t any more murders to write about.

Until one day when an unpublished Slasherville book shows up on her doorstep predicting new Wolf Man killings. CJ is sure it’s a bad prank. But then the events in the book start coming true, and when CJ breaks her one rule, the Final Girl—the person who, according to the book, was supposed to stop the Wolf Man—ends up dead. Suddenly, blending in and staying out of it is not an option, and CJ will have to use everything she knows about the rules of horror to make it out alive.©2025 Justine Pucella Winans (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Reseñas de la Crítica

A whip-smart, genre-savvy horror that perfectly balances dark humor with a genuine struggle for survival.

Winans expertly blends chills and laughs in this cozy slasher with characters you'd die for. The perfect pick-me-up for the horror girlies.

Fast-paced, chilling, and packed with punchy horror. Slasher fans will stay up all night to finish this one!

A delightful twist on slashers, Final Girls, and what it means to live in the present with the ones you love. Smart, inventive, and a whole lot of fun.

A meta thrill ride that feels like your favorite slasher movie come to life.

A thoroughly modern thriller that’s both a sharp slasher and a clever commentary on the genre.

Plays with horror tropes in entertaining and exciting ways and keeps the suspense up with twists aplenty.

Winans masterfully blends small-town horror with chilling suspense. . . . Fast-paced and thrilling, this novel will be a hit among those who devour slasher fiction and true crime. Expect it to fly off the shelves

Mixing tongue-in-cheek references to horror classics like Scream and Friday the 13th with an engaging meta premise, Winans delivers a cheeky adventure thriller.

Perfect for YA readers

For a beginner thriller reader, this book is perfection. The author’s inclusion of the LGBTQIA community was perfectly done, and flowed perfectly with the storyline.

This was kind of deep

First it took me way too long to finish this but I'll blame that on the personal bad news . . . Okay! Scream meets You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight is definitely the way to describe this. There were masks, blood, knives and a final girl . . . repeat because this all happened before.
Good story, I was just VERY disappointed with the villain this time.

4 stars

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💕 I really really like the story I like the whole series I like I like I like I like I like it

High School Slasher Done Right

It was a quick easy read (aside from all the brutal murder obvi) and I loved it. It is, without a doubt, slasheriffic.

decent plot but....

this plot was interesting so I grabbed it. I personally love slashers. but no offense to be had an entire chapter about the protagonist's pronouns in the middle of a killing spree bored me to no end! They are being hunted and trying to figure everything with the killer out but the added discussion nearly every chapter turned me off. the narrator was great loved the performance and the initial story but yeah can't say I'd re-read/ listen again