Maeve Fly

Name: Maeve Fly
Rating: 7.03 (61 reviews)
ISBN: 9781250857866

A USA Today bestseller!

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award • Winner of the Splatterpunk Award for Best Novel • A Bram Stoker Award Nominee • One of Esquire's Best Horror Books of the Year • An Indie Next Pick!

"This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight."—Stephen Graham Jones

A provocative and unforgettable 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 slashers and the macabre.

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

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Published Jul 16, 2024

304 pages

Average rating: 7.03

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Brie Reads

Aug 19, 2026

10/10 stars

This was so disgusting but in the most intriguing way. I couldn't look away even if I wanted to. I love that the author went all in on this character. Definitely not your average female main character.

DaRightJuan

Feb 14, 2026

8/10 stars

DEFINITELY not for the faint of heart. This story wasn't one that I expected to be as intriguing as it was gruesome. However, CJ Leede has great depth of exploration when detailing the mindset of the protagonist's "nature" ascertaining the perplexing mindset of what humans are capable of when over-indulgence in promiscuity is involved.

storybookslut

Aug 27, 2025

9/10 stars

Maeve Fly by CJ Leede 🖤 my feminist heart 😂 leave all the gory crime to the men? I don’t think so. It had the right amount of action and heartfelt moments. The ups and downs of Maeve does show that emotions get the best of us no matter how evil we are or want to be.

Shigarachki

Jun 23, 2025

4/10 stars

Thoroughly frustrating

Lotusbookworm247

Apr 01, 2025

10/10 stars

This book blew me away ! Very spicy, spooky, and relatable in certain ways ! Anyone who has ever dreamt of being a Disney princess and or villain prepare yourself for culture shock but in a good way ! I really hated the end though lol and if you read it you’ll know why! I was left with my jaw on the floor when he said “me too Maeve” and speechless to what she did in return ! Dish well served when she found out what he meant though because that’s what you get for thinking lol it was you Maeve. I see you.