While walking through the woods, a group of boys—Daniel Burke, Gavin Graves, and brothers Connor and Tyler Parker—discover the abandoned body of a female high school student. The body is bruised but clean, lifeless but fresh. Torn between fear and fascination, the boys decide to keep the corpse hidden in a ditch in the woods in order to keep her as their girlfriend—to converse with her, to flirt, to practice, to love.
What follows is a story of adolescence, friendship, love, envy, hatred, and extreme horror.
Jon Athan, the author of Are Your Parents Home? and The Groomer, brings you a disturbing tale of 'young love' and human horror. Could you ever love a dead body?
Rewritten and re-edited from the ground up, the 2025 Author’s Enhanced Edition of this novel is an uncut, uncensored, and extended version of the original story. It is the definitive ‘Our Dead Girlfriend’ experience.
This book contains graphic content. Listener discretion is advised.
WTF DID I JUST LISTEN TO? I don't even have words for this book or a rating. LIKE WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH DANIEL?! I thought he was nuts throughout the book, but he crossed into a whole other level when he did what he did to a baby. What an actual fucking psycho. Like why tf the baby?! He did absolutely nothing. I can handle a lot, but that was absolutely too much. I almost had to stop because it broke my heart & had me in tears. I don't think I've ever hated a character more. That being said, there needs to be a follow up with Daniel & Mr. Kennedy because it would be absolute chaos & this narrator needs to be who narrates it. Just please no more babies!
The beginning was a little clunky to me, and I had some trouble getting into it, but once I did, I really enjoyed the characters. I really do hope he makes a sequel even though I'm not really down with the main character we left off with.