But it's a story that is completely immersive and so gripping, I absolutely couldn't put it down. In fact, the story starts with their deaths. Surprisingly, considering the focus on the deaths of Clara and Flo, this isn't a story that's about them. There is so much going on in this book, it's difficult to describe, but I fell in love with it from the very first page. But when the filming starts, on the very location the deaths took place, strange and disturbing occurrences begin to arise, and it looks like the curse hasn't yet run it's course. The movie is to star the it-girl and 'celesbian' Harper Harper and former child star Audrey Wells as Flo and Clara respectively.

In present day, a movie is being made about the two girls' deaths and the supposed Brookhants curse, The Happenings of Brookhaunts, based on a book of the same name, written by wunderkind Merritt Emmons when she was 16. More strange, mysterious deaths linked to the book follow, leading to the school's closure. In love, and obsessed with a memoir released the year before, the girls are found dead, their bodies found clinging together after being attacked by a swarm of yellow jackets, a copy of The Story of Mary MacLane lying beside them. It's 1902, and Clara and Flo are two teen girls attending Brookhants' School for Girls. I should warn you I have a lot to say about this book, and this review is going to be long. A haunted school and manor, a movie about strange historic deaths filmed where they happened, and an historic curse that raises it's head again, and it's sapphic as hell? Absolutely sign me up! It wasn't exactly the story I expected, but it was so much better. Danforth's debut novel, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, but even if I wasn't, Plain Bad Heroines is a book I would have picked up. And as past and present become grimly entangled, it’s soon impossible to tell quite where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins. Over a hundred years later, Brookhants opens its doors once more, when a crew of young actresses arrive to film a high-profile movie about the rumoured Brookhants curse. But not before three more people die on the property, each in a troubling way. A few months later they are found dead in the woods, after a horrific wasp attack, the book lying next to their intertwined bodies.

Published: 24th March 2021 | Publisher: The Borough Press | Source: Boughtġ902, Brookhants School for Girls: students Flo and Clara are madly in love with each other, as well as completely obsessed with The Story of Mary MacLane, the scandalous debut memoir by 19 year old MacLane. Links with an asterisk (*) are Ad: Affiliate Links, which means if you make a purchase through them, I'll make a small commission at no extra cost to you.

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