Daphne

Title: Daphne

Author: Josh Malerman

Genre: horror

Thank you, NetGalley, for this book.

Josh Malerman is a must-read for me. I love his books and have yet to be disappointed. Daphne is another great one and seriously spooky. Set around a high school girls’ basketball team, during a sleepover, Natasha tells the team about Daphne. She lived in the town but was murdered. Now she haunts people and will kill you if you think about her too much.

Kit has anxiety and, of course, can’t stop thinking about Daphne. When other team members are killed, one at a time, Kit is sure Daphne is coming for her next. What I loved about this book is how real the anxiety descriptions were. Intrusive thoughts suck, and Malerman captured this perfectly but in a more terrifying way. Because Daphne will literally kill you if you can’t stop thinking about her…. or so the legend says….