"Gory and campy horror, perfect for the Halloween season."
--Kirkus Reviews
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The #murder and mayhem continue in this prequel companion novel to
the grisly, campy social media insanity that is #MurderTrending and
#MurderFunding. Gretchen McNeil brings her signature wit and
merciless kills to this gruesome yet hilarious, wildly topical young
adult novel.
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Escape rooms are all fun and games...until the contestants start dying
gruesome deaths.
Seventeen-year-old Persey feels worthless much of the time. Her parents
prefer her smarter, more enigmatic big brother to her, and she can't
quite seem to succeed -- let alone fit in -- at school. But there is one
thing she's good at: escape rooms. So when she's invited to compete in
an escape room competition that carries a prize worth millions, Persey
is all over it.
Persey enters the competition along with seven other young contestants,
but while most escape rooms are about teamwork and collaboration, this
one is all about being cut-throat--literally. When contestants start
getting killed off, Persey must solve a series of bizarre and gruesome
puzzles, riddles, and games to make it out alive. Along the way she
learns the contestants are mysteriously connected--and someone is out
for vengeance.
Twenty years before Dee Guerra and the Death Row Breakfast Club took
down The Postman and Alcatraz 2.0 in #MurderTrending, long before Becca
survived The Juggernaut and Who Wants to Be a Painiac? in
#MurderFunding, the murder games first began with one awful day at
Escape-Capades, Ltd.(TM) And there's no telling who might have made it
out alive, or what they may have later become.
