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  • Maeve Fly

  • By: CJ Leede
  • Narrated by: Sosie Bacon
  • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (265 ratings)

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Maeve Fly

By: CJ Leede
Narrated by: Sosie Bacon
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Publisher's summary

"This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight."—Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author

“Leede’s words and narrator Sosie Bacon’s voice imbue Maeve with thought-provoking realism and earnestness, even as her violent acts become more savagely creative.”—Library Journal

A provocative debut that is both a blood-soaked love letter to Los Angeles and a gleeful send-up to iconic horror villains, Maeve Fly will thrill fans of My Heart is a Chainsaw and Caroline Kepnes’ You series.

By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every child’s favorite ice princess.

By the neon night glow of the Sunset Strip, Maeve haunts the dive bars with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, imitating her misanthropic literary heroes.

But when Gideon Green—her best friend’s brother—moves to town, he awakens something dangerous within her, and the world she knows suddenly shifts beneath her feet.

Untethered, Maeve ditches her discontented act and tries on a new persona. A bolder, bloodier one, inspired by the pages of American Psycho. Step aside Patrick Bateman, it’s Maeve’s turn with the knife.

"An apocalyptic Anaheim Psycho."—Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.

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Critic reviews

“Leede’s bloody and gory debut will make readers clutch their metaphorical pearls in the best way possible. Horror fans who enjoy villain-origin stories, social commentary, terrifying female characters, and unreliable narrators will devour each deliciously morbid and shocking page.”—Booklist, starred review

“An apocalyptic Anaheim Psycho, a guidebook to the dead spaces of Los Angeles, a Hollywood black mass, an occult ritual that cracks the earth, Maeve Fly oozes enough anguish, alienation, and angst to drown the world.”—Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How To Sell a Haunted House

“This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight. Child of God has nothing on Maeve Fly. But I think they might be cousins. Just, let’s not let them Mickey and Mallory across the world, ok?”—Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of My Heart is a Chainsaw

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FANTASTICALLY GRUESOME

The daughter of all your transgressive heroes. I haven’t been so invested into a grotesque love story like this since Chandler Morrison’s Dead Inside.

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Couldn’t stop listening

This book was by far one of the best i have listened to on audible in a while. I wish i could have more but where it ended was exactly right

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I will read more from this author

Great homage paid to Bret Easton Ellis. The author does an excellent job of making a protagonist and antagonist out of the same character. Everything is a metaphor for the serial killer from the Disney princess, to Halloween, etc. I am surprised that some were shocked by the ending, as the author does a great job foreshadowing this, and the ending is inevitable. Very well executed story. Look forward to reading more from the author. Definitely recommend.

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Wow

A modern Day, female, American psycho! Great narration, and story, can be graphic at times, but was still able to keep me locked in the entirety of the story

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Captivatingly Gory Debut

Maeve Fly is captivating and sucks you in from page one. I love that Maeve's Los Angeles adventures give a unique view to a city that is oftentimes overused in novels and the detail given to even the most mundane of LA attraction kept things fresh. You just can't help but fall in love with Maeve, the perfect sociopath.

As a reader of predominantly romance novels, I felt that this book was a good gateway into horror. The overall theme in the book is something that everyone wants for themselves; we all want to be seen for exactly who we are without the filter of others or society getting in the way. We all have wolves and monkeys pulling our strings. This is something that transcends genres and has left me with the worst book hangover I've experienced in quite a while.

Leede's writing is beautiful to read, even if it's simultaneously nauseating, and I can't wait to see what's next!

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incredibly entertaining

this story was fun from the jump. I'm an instant fan and highly recommend this one!

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it’s Adult and Filthy

It works as my Halloween read, but I couldn’t listen in public. It’s too filthy.

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Disturbing, Eloquently Written, and pays homage to a city riddled with a history of killer crimes

First off, Sosie does an excellent job narrating. She gives just enough in the narration that is isn’t too much or too monotoned. Second, I could not recommend this book more. If you are looking for a disturbing book with a plot and also enjoy a good love story, then give this book a listen. You can begin to draw some expectations, but truly you do not expect the ending.

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A new favorite

The ending left me reeling, the whole book hit that sweet spot, itching a scratch too deep to touch.

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if Patrick Bateman played Elsa at Disneyland...

This book is so much fun and also super gross and disgusting. I loved it. It's also a really cool, twisted love letter to Los Angeles, to Hollywood---which I really appreciated because I live here. There are some strong, campy, fun horror cinematic images throughout the book that are so fun to engage with. I love being inside of the protagonist's mind and absolutely root for her even though she's doing horrible things. And I want her to have happiness and a relationship.

Sosie Bacon's performance is cool, it's really understated, which I think is absolutely the right choice for the extra-ness of the material. I loved listening to her.

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