#Blogtour Kill Creatures by Rory Power

'From the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls comes a gripping dark thriller – perfect to read in a single sitting that unravels friendship, jealousy, desire, rage and revenge, with a shocking twist that will leave you breathless.' 

It's a pleasure to take part in the Blogtour Kill Creatures by Rory Power - published 5th June 2025 by Scholastic UK.

About the Author

Rory Power grew up in New England, where she lives and works as a story consultant for TV adaptation. She received a Masters in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia, and is the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls, Burn Our Bodies Down, and In a Garden Burning Gold. Visit itsrorypower.com or instagram.com/itsrorypower

About the book

Last summer, Nan's three best friends disappeared into Saltcedar Canyon.

She's spent the year since grieving their loss and avoiding questions about what happened that night. Now, on the anniversary, she's ready to say goodbye, and so are the girls' families, who have reconvened to hold a memorial. But their vigil is interrupted by the shocking return of one of the missing girls alive. Everybody is overjoyed. Everybody, that is, except Nan, who was pretty sure they were dead. After all, she's the one who killed them.

Review

Colour me surprised, this was a really good read. I'll definitely be reading more by this author going forward.

This is a tense dark domestic psychological thriller. Four girls go on a secret midnight escapade and only one of them returns. Nan is dreading the vigil for her best friends, but perhaps not because of the loss and the painful reminder of their disappearance. Instead she finds the entire dramatic exercise a tad boring and time-consuming. The last thing she expects is the unexpected reappearance of someone she knows is dead - she knows because she was there when it happened, in fact she is the killer.

What follows is an extremely complicated cat and mouse game, I would hazard a guess that neither the reader, Nan nor the undead girl know exactly who is the cat in this scenario or indeed the mouse. Is Nan going to have to fix her mistake, that's if she actually did it, right? If she killed her friend why is she alive? Or is there something bigger going on - is it really more than just teenage rage, perhaps an overactive imagination, but that doesn't explain the other missing girls does it?

I would love to see this developed into a small screen series, it has the right kind of pithy characters and plot to captivate a large audience. Power is an author with a depth of understanding when it comes to the often complex intricacies of the teenage mind, especially that of the female variety. Friends, enemies, frenemies - from besties to willing to kill in the blink of an eye, such is the irrational and dangerous world of the teenage mind and hive.

Buy Kill Creatures at Amazon Uk or go to Goodreads for any other retailer. Publisher: Scholastic Uk, pub date 5th June 2025. Buy at Amazon com.