Slice of Cherry

By: Dia Reeves

Narrated by: Suzy Jackson

Kit and Fancy Cordelle are sisters of the best kind: best friends, best confidantes, and best accomplices. The daughters of the infamous Bonesaw Killer, Kit and Fancy are used to feeling like outsiders, and that's just the way they like it.

But in Portero, where the weird and wild run rampant, the Cordelle sisters are hardly the oddest or most dangerous creatures around. It's no surprise when Kit and Fancy start to give in to their deepest desire: the desire to kill. What starts as a fascination with slicing open and stitching up quickly spirals into a gratifying murder spree. Of course, the sisters aren't killing just anyone, only the people who truly deserve it. But the girls have learned from the mistakes of their father, and know that a shred of evidence could get them caught.

So when Fancy stumbles upon a mysterious and invisible doorway to another world, she opens a door to endless possibilities.

©2011 Dia Reeves (P)2010 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Fans of Reeves’ first novel, Bleeding Violet... will relish a second...glimpse at the deeply fascinating town of Portero and its bizarre, memorable residents." (Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books)

Love it!

This book is terrifying, complex, and wonderfully written. It's one of my new favorites now. I wish there were more than 2 Portero books!

Intriguing

I absolutely loved this book! The narrator did each characters own voices. I love when they do that. The book itself was great especially for this time of year.

Surreal, riveting tale

What a surreal story, but a fascinating one. Dia Reeves has written this book for teens but adults will find it interesting too. Enter the strange and twisted landscape of Portero and meet the teenage daughters of a serial killer, Kit and Fancy. The world Kit and Fancy live in is revealed piece by piece, and a spooky one it is. The town populace take all the strange happenings in their town as normal, such as rampaging monsters, plants that grow only where a body is buried, strange beasts in the nearby forbidding forest and a tree that grants wishes. Kit and Fancy have to deal with being shunned due to their father having killed so many people. They also have to deal with their own issues of growing up.
The reader, Suzy Jackson, is very good, though I almost had a difficult time with her voice. Oddly, she didn't "sound" quite right for this book. I really like her vocal characterizations, but for me, her voice wasn't the best fit.

Where's the movie adaptation?

Gonna be honest. I couldn't get into this initially because I didn't think the voice matched the sorry but I got used to it. This was dark & strange like Reeve's first novel Bleeding Violet there were definitely twists I didn't see coming. Great book!

Great book!

Very entertaining. Read the book, but I’m so glad I downloaded it. So much better with the narrator.