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Maeve Fly

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

Also by CJ Leede:
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Published Jul 16, 2024

304 pages

Average rating: 7.5

16 RATINGS

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jibbmgsjg
Feb 16, 2025
10/10 stars
Unexpected! Absolutely love the feminine rage!
Shigarachki
Jun 23, 2025
5/10 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.
Nina.bruja
Dec 25, 2024
10/10 stars
Well that was weird... and horny.. and gory.

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