Aardvark Book Club Fan Club (Not Official) discussion

1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, and shared sense of unfairness of being on the outside through the slasher horror Jones loves, but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this summer teen movie of a novel gone full blood-curdling tragic.

Through the Intro, Friday night and Saturday / 31%

ha! I love this twist. We still hear about final girls but now we have the story of a slasher

(view spoiler)[ what those kids did, feeding him peanuts!?! Just awful! Who does that? And NOW he's been hit by a truck?! This poor kid.

I really love Amber but is she our final girl? Is she destined to turn him in, betray him, keep him from killing others?

and Stace. What a life saver she was. But. . .where did she go now? Her body/she is missing right?

but I don't know yet - is he just being blamed for Justin's killings? (hide spoiler)]

I'm doing this as an audio and the narrator is So. Good! I'm loving it!

through Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Coming Down

I wonder (view spoiler)[ why he can't remember everything. is he somehow tied to Justin? or was he really confused like Amber thought?

and wow! that justin's parents are there and they are thinking them and not him. I guess that's good.

I love that Amber is trying to figure out what's going on with Tol and why he is doing these weird "could be slasher" type things. (hide spoiler)]

through Summer School and Skinny Dip in the Moon Light

(view spoiler)[ wow, so now we know, the mingle of the blood and the event turned him
I love how someone always has the slasher knowledge for the mc's!! This time it was the brother
I'm so sad that he'll have to leave amber behind.

and Mel the final girl? huh (hide spoiler)]

I'm done

this one was so good!
(view spoiler)[ I got teary eyed at the end
I love that Amber was the final girl
I liked the explanation of why he was becoming a slasher! What a fun twist - the blood in the cut!
I love that he also couldn't see color and donned a mask! Such good details! (hide spoiler)]