Hatchet Girls

It’s time for some spooky reads and Hatchet Girls by Diana Rodriguez Wallach  needs to be on top of the pile! Thank you TBR and Beyond Tours for hosting this tour and including me. I’ve been infatuated with the Lizzie Borden story forever…

Check out my post and be sure to follow along on the tour to see what others are saying.

About the Book

Title: Hatchet Girls

Written by: Diana Rodriguez Wallach

Genre: Young Adult Mystery

Publishing Date: October 10, 2023

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For fans of Kara Thomas and Courtney Summers comes a supernatural horror that reminds us family can be our saving grace–or our biggest curse. Set one hundred years after the Borden murders, this propulsive thriller imagines what a similar trial might look like today.

When the parents of the richest family in Fall River are found murdered by axe, the town quickly blames newcomer Vik. It doesn’t help that he was caught standing over the bodies with blood on his hands and can’t remember anything about the night in question.

But Vik’s sister, Tessa, knows that Vik would never be capable of such a gruesome crime. Haunted by the mistakes she made that led her family to Fall River in the first place, she sets out to prove her brother’s innocence.

Her search for answers will lead her into a sprawling, supposedly cursed forest, as well as the childhood home of Lizzie Borden—the original axe murderess of Fall River.

Content Warning: Violence, mentions of murder, blood, grief, abuse

Review for Hatchet Girls

Whoever said we can’t have it all hasn’t read this book. Horror, thriller, mystery, and paranormal unite for a blend of plain old creepy suspense. The author even sprinkled some true crime in for good measure. Set in Fall River, Massachusetts, where Lizzie Borden took an ax… (acquitted of the murders of her parents).

100 years later, the Morse family rents out the Borden Family House as a tourist attraction. Is this not the best setup ever? Their daughter, Mariella pairs up with an outsider, Vik – and points her finger at him when her parents are found axed (did you see that coming?) I definitely recommend this book for horror buffs but hold on to your seat, the story that unfolds will have you in rapid page-turn mode and the ending will leave you speechless. Expert writing and fabulous research. Well done. Very well done.

About the Author

Diana Rodriguez Wallach is a multi-published author of young adult novels.

Her most recent, Small Town Monsters, a YA Latinx horror novel published in September 2021 through Random House’s Underlined imprint. Her next YA horror, Hatchet Girls, published with Random House’s Delacorte imprint.

Additionally, Diana authored the Anastasia Phoenix Series (Entangled Publishing), a trilogy of young adult spy thrillers. The first book in the series, Proof of Lies, has been optioned for film and was chosen as a finalist for the 2018 International Thriller Awards for Best Young Adult Novel. Additionally, Bustle listed her as one of the “Top Nine Latinx Authors to Read for Women’s History Month 2017,” and Paste named Proof of Lies one of the “Top 10 Best Young Adult Books for March 2017.”

Diana is also the author of three YA contemporary Latina novels: Amor and Summer Secrets, Amigas and School Scandals, and Adios to All The Drama (Kensington Books). Amor and Summer Secrets placed second at the 2009 International Latino Book Awards for Best Young Adult Novel. She also penned a YA short-story collection entitled Mirror, Mirror (Buzz Books, 2013).

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