Quinn Marcelo wouldn’t necessarily win the award for Most Popular Person at her school, but unbeknownst to her peers, Quinn entertains them at every football, basketball, and baseball game―as Peaches the Parrot, her high school’s God-like mascot.
When someone sabotages the legendary Peaches costume at the Homecoming Game, Quinn’s left unmasked and humiliated. After all, Peaches’ identity was a closely guarded secret and a point of pride for nearly everyone at Olivia Newton-John High. As if that wasn’t enough, Little Peaches, a new, real parrot that the PTA got to enhance the Peaches Experience, is kidnapped right after Quinn’s unmasking.
Determined to uncover the culprit, Quinn publicly unravels the lives of everyone in her path―including Tessa Banks, the most popular girl in school―in a no-holds-barred conspiracy-fueled investigation. But when a killer starts going after the people implicated in Quinn’s mascot disaster, she must race to uncover the truth behind her feathery faux pas before the truth kills her, too.
Told from the dual perspectives of Quinn and Tessa, we got two final girls for the price of one.
I’m not a fan of slasher movies. They mostly consist of characters running around and getting killed in overly elaborate, violent ways that wouldn’t happen in real life (hopefully). I decided to give this book a shot because it’s written by Alex Brown, and I loved her last book, Damned if You Do.
I had a hard time getting into the story at first. The small town’s over-the-top obsession with the school mascot was absurd and off-putting. But I got into it once the ball started rolling and Quinn and Tessa’s true personalities began to show.
Overall, this story was a more captivating version of the first Scream movie with a parrot mascot instead of Ghostface and fewer over-that-top killings.
I recommend this book to fans of slasher movies and people who are curious about slasher movies but don’t want to watch all the violence and gore.