Slice of Cherry
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Hardcover: 978-1-4169-8620-1
Paperback: 978-1-4169-8621-8
Happiness is a bloody knife.
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….
Industry Reviews:
“Reeves returns to her fictional East Texas town of Portero for a tale more gruesome, disturbing and shamelessly enjoyable than Bleeding Violet (2009).”
– Kirkus
“[A] memorable and utterly twisted coming-of-age story that reads like Dexter for (mature) teens, soaked in the paranormal–and blood.”
– Publishers Weekly
“Fans of Reeves’ first novel, Bleeding Violet (BCCB 3/10), 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 (starred review)
“Twisted and creepy…Horrifyingly beautiful…”
– Romantic Times
“I highly recommend SLICE OF CHERRY if you are looking for something that is extremely off in morality, has a twisty-turny path, and is so well crafted that you won’t know what hit you.”
– Fangoria
“Reeves’s vivid story of the fantastically weird, violent world of Portero, Texas…is part comic horror, part just plain horror, and part screwed-up, psychological coming-of-age.”
– Horn Book
“Brutally beautiful — not like anything else you’ll read this year, or any other.”
– Cassandra Clare, bestselling author of the Mortal Instruments & Infernal Devices series
Blogger Reviews:
“[I]t’s basically a gory story about two sisters having a tea party and killing a lot people. Don’t read it if you’re a baby.”
The Naughty Book Kitties
“Ms. Reeves takes the reader to a place where the real, the borderline real, and the completely insane all kind of mean the same thing.”
Arzim’s Army
“Even with the nausea that it caused me at one point I still enjoyed it.”
Mundie Moms