A review by laurenbookwitchbitch
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth, Sara Lautman

4.0

Reminiscent of “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy,” only creeper and with a lot more bees. This is the story of the happenings at Brookhaunts, a boarding school for elite society girls in Rhode Island. It begins with the gruesome death of two young lovers Clara and Flo who are stung to death by Yellowjackets in the woods. Following their demise other strange accidents and deaths befall more students until the school is forced to close. Many years later a Hollywood film crew sets out to make a movie about the infamous school and it doesn’t take long before they realize the hauntings of Brookhaunts are real. Sapphic, scary, and superb Emily Danforth combines humor, gothic horror, queer longing and power of weird teenage girls into this beautifully illustrated tale.