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3.41 AVERAGE
3.41 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Daphne hits you hard and fast right from the beginning. Put on your Nikes and get ready for the most exciting run of your life!
The start of the story is a bit slow, and I felt that it was let down slightly by the pace. I had heard so many great things about Malerman’s work and I wanted to give it the best chance. Midway through it really started gaining momentum and I was all in. the seatbelt was engaged, and I braced my hands on the dashboard, expecting to get my head caved in at any moment.
Kit Lamb and her friends are having a sleepover, and what’s the best way to have an enjoyable night…you guessed it, by scaring the excrement clean out of your friends by sharing the story of local legend, Daphne. A story that everyone knows but doesn’t speak of in Samhattan. The story goes, if you think of her, she will come and she will kill you. Reminded me a bit of Friday 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street – this is in no way a bad thing, I’m a sucker for cringey 80’s horror.
Daphne has a lot in common with the girls of Samhattan High basketball team. She attended school around the time their parents did. She was a huge girl, around seven feet tall, clad in denim and a social outcast, aficionado of kiss make up. She was killed horrifically at the hands of her fellow classmates and since then the legend of Daphne lives on, in a box that nobody ever opens, if you think about Daphne, she will come for you.
Can I just say how freaking phenomenal the death scenes are. Sitting in my peaceful home, nothing to worry about and yet I still worry about a seven-foot woman breaking into my home and crushing my head into bits with her bare hands. Did I also mention that no-one else can see this jolly red giant?
Kit Lamb is a star basketball player. I appreciated the anxiety rep in her arc. It’s very rare to see this kind of mental health representation in coming-of-age stories. She is on edge from the Daphne story. Really on edge, she predicts that now they’ve spoken about her that Daphne will pick them off one by one. She tries to control her anxiety through the only means she knows – writing in a journal. It’s really very telling how Kit seems mildly worried about the legend of Daphne to her final writings and her decent into blind panic.
I will be delving into Malerman’s work, this story was merely an appetiser.
The start of the story is a bit slow, and I felt that it was let down slightly by the pace. I had heard so many great things about Malerman’s work and I wanted to give it the best chance. Midway through it really started gaining momentum and I was all in. the seatbelt was engaged, and I braced my hands on the dashboard, expecting to get my head caved in at any moment.
Kit Lamb and her friends are having a sleepover, and what’s the best way to have an enjoyable night…you guessed it, by scaring the excrement clean out of your friends by sharing the story of local legend, Daphne. A story that everyone knows but doesn’t speak of in Samhattan. The story goes, if you think of her, she will come and she will kill you. Reminded me a bit of Friday 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street – this is in no way a bad thing, I’m a sucker for cringey 80’s horror.
Daphne has a lot in common with the girls of Samhattan High basketball team. She attended school around the time their parents did. She was a huge girl, around seven feet tall, clad in denim and a social outcast, aficionado of kiss make up. She was killed horrifically at the hands of her fellow classmates and since then the legend of Daphne lives on, in a box that nobody ever opens, if you think about Daphne, she will come for you.
Can I just say how freaking phenomenal the death scenes are. Sitting in my peaceful home, nothing to worry about and yet I still worry about a seven-foot woman breaking into my home and crushing my head into bits with her bare hands. Did I also mention that no-one else can see this jolly red giant?
Kit Lamb is a star basketball player. I appreciated the anxiety rep in her arc. It’s very rare to see this kind of mental health representation in coming-of-age stories. She is on edge from the Daphne story. Really on edge, she predicts that now they’ve spoken about her that Daphne will pick them off one by one. She tries to control her anxiety through the only means she knows – writing in a journal. It’s really very telling how Kit seems mildly worried about the legend of Daphne to her final writings and her decent into blind panic.
I will be delving into Malerman’s work, this story was merely an appetiser.
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
A girls basketball team is haunted by a 7ft tall urban legend named Daphne. You need to hear more? Okay, this is a supernatural mystery that deals with lore and trauma while investigating how our thoughts become reality. One one hand it's a great thriller with dark edgy moments, on the other hand it is an introspective tale about inner courage. Fun read, not too long and not too dark.
dark
tense
slow-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Violence, Murder
slow-paced