Slice of Cherry

""Reeves' women are stunning--brazening through life on a mixture of sexuality, vulnerability, instability, and brilliance that serves them well as they encounter monsters literal and figurative, internal and external.""----BCCB ""Whimsically dark and impossible to put down, SLICE OF CHERRY is a beautifully written and bloody coming-of-age tale starring two weird sisters on a murder spree out of love. Definitely a must-read.""--Jamison Shea, author of I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me ""Violently cathartic and narratively intimate, Slice of Cherry is unlike anything I've ever read. I found myself laughing one page and horrified the next--Kit and Fancy have slashed and slung their way into my mind and won't be leaving anytime soon. A bloody spectacle!""--Courtney Gould, award-winning author of The Dead and the Dark ""Brutally beautiful -- not like anything else you'll read this year, or any other.""--Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mortal Instruments series ""Wicked, violent and utterly enthralling, Slice of Cherry is a portrait of adolescence that turns the stomach and races the heart. A rerelease so fresh and delicious, everyone deserves another chance to take a bite.""--Kayla Ancrum, award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Wicker King and Icarus ""A memory and utterly twisted coming-of-age story...soaked in the paranormal--and blood."" ----Publishers Weekly ""Reeves returns to her fictional East Texas town of Portero for a tale more gruesome, disturbing and shamelessly enjoyable than Bleeding Violet...somehow, in this orgy of gore, a touching coming-of-age tale emerges, as the two emotionally stunted young women connect with community. The warm, fuzzy moral--that it's fine to be a serial killer as long as you're doing it to help others--will delight and entertain readers mature enough to appreciate that fictional morals needn't always coincide with real-life didacticism. This gleeful page-turner is a winner.""----Kirkus Reviews ""Reeves, experimenting with a much darker side of magical realism, definitely has plenty of ideas. The vividly created fantasy world in which buried victims grow into beautiful trees is fully engaging...[f]ans of Showtime's Dexter series will be thoroughly engrossed.""----School Library Journal ""Slice of Cherry is earnestly macabre, with razor-sharp characterizations in a sugar-sweet coat of moral ambiguity. [T]here is nothing mundane about this delectable novel...Reeves' prose is dreamlike, strange, and bewitching as she effortlessly tells a story about some rather gory and unsavory subjects in a deceptively blasé manner. Be warned that Slice of Cherry is not for the faint of heart...if you, like me, delight in the absurd and the grotesque; if you've ever felt like you just don't quite adhere to the tastes of the norm; if you like complicated and darkness...well, you might wanna cut yourself off a Slice of Cherry.""----The Book Smugglers ""Twisted and creepy, this book is not for the faint of heart. Reeves sets no boundaries for herself, as readers witness the strange mind of a serial killer, possibly changing all perceptions of love and murder. Horrifyingly beautiful."" ----Romantic Times