Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings to spotlight highly anticipated books. It is based on the Waiting on Wednesday meme which used to be hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.
FROM GOODREADS: It's 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina, a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and a seemingly unquenchable appetite for pork products. Beneath the town’s cheerful façade, however, Bleak Creek teens live in constant fear of being sent to The Whitewood School, a local reformatory with a record of putting unruly teens back on the straight and narrow—a record so impeccable that almost everyone is willing to ignore the mysterious deaths that have occurred there over the past decade.
At first, high school freshmen Rex McClendon and Leif Nelson believe what they’ve been told—that the students’ strange demises were all tragic accidents. But when the shoot for their low-budget horror masterpiece, PolterDog, goes horribly awry—and their best friend, Candice Boykins, is sent to Whitewood as punishment—Rex and Leif are forced to question everything they know about their unassuming hometown and its cherished school for delinquents.
Eager to rescue their friend, Rex and Leif pair up with recent NYU film school grad Janine Blitstein to begin piecing together the unsettling truth of the school and its mysterious founder, Wayne Whitewood. What they find, with Candice’s life hanging in the balance, will leave them battling an evil beyond their wildest teenage imaginations—one that will shake Bleak Creek to its core.
WHY I CAN'T WAIT: I think this sounds like a pretty decent YA horror and I'll admit it, I'm curious about the concept of their low-budget movie PolterDog.
WHAT BOOK CAN'T YOU WAIT FOR THIS WEEK???
Okay, the synopsis is intriguing and all, but really, like you, the one big thing I honed in on and just want to know more about is their movie PolterDog, lol! Great find!
ReplyDelete~Mogsy @ BiblioSanctum
Sounds like a movie a lot of people would check out!
DeleteI can imagine that PolterDog interested you! Hopefully there will be details of that for you!
ReplyDeleteI hope so too.
DeleteThis one is new to me, I hope you enjoy it!
ReplyDeleteI envision this book as a fantastic movie as well! That synopsis give quite an intriguing plot. I hope that you love it. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks. It does sound like a movie plot.
DeleteI'm curious about PolterDog too, and I love the film element. This definitely sounds like it has potential!
ReplyDeleteI hope so.
DeleteThe low budget movie tie-in seems made for a novel like this. Perfect for a horror novel! I hope you like this, Barb.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
DeleteI love that their low budget horror film is called PolterDog! :D
ReplyDeleteMe too!
DeleteHorror isn't my preferred genre--I'm easily scared--but I hope this one works for you, and that you have an opportunity to read it soon.
ReplyDeleteLindsi @ Do You Dog-ear? 💬
Thanks Lindsi and thanks for visiting.
DeleteSounds so good!
ReplyDeleteI like the cover a lot as well.
DeleteOoh this sounds good. A sleepy town with secrets and a creepy reformatory? This sounds awesome!
ReplyDeleteYea the creepy reformatory really grabbed my attention.
DeleteOooh! Awesome cover! Great pick!
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Ronyell @ Rabbit Ears Book Blog
Thanks!
DeleteOoh! This does sound nice and chilling. I hope you love it!
ReplyDeleteTressa @ Wishful Endings
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DeletePolterdog! I can't resist that name, and the premise does sound spooky too. Besides, 'unsettling truths about schools' always makes me feel vindicated in some ways about school lol
ReplyDeleteI know lots of people like boarding school tales and this one is similar. Love that it might make you feel vindicated!
DeleteOoh, this one sounds good! I'll have to add it to my TBR.
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DeleteThanks Sherry.
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