Guillotine, Delilah S. Dawson
Guillotine, Delilah S. Dawson
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Guillotine

Author: Delilah S. Dawson

Narrator: Elisabeth Ashby

Unabridged: 5 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/10/2024


Synopsis

The Menu meets Ready or Not in this dark tale of opulent luxury and shocking violence from the New York Times bestselling author of Bloom.

Thrift fashionista Dez Lane doesn't want to date Patrick Ruskin; she just wants to meet his mother, the editor-in-chief of Nouveau magazine. When he invites her to his family's big Easter reunion at their ancestral home, she's certain she can put up with his arrogance and fend off his advances long enough to ask Marie Caulfield-Ruskin for an internship someone with her pedigree could never nab through the regular submission route.

When they arrive at the enormous island mansion, Dez is floored—she's never witnessed how the 1% lives before in all their ridiculous, unnecessary luxury. But once all the family members are on the island and the ferry has departed, things take a dark turn. For decades, the Ruskins have made their servants sign contracts that are basically indentured servitude, and with nothing to lose, the servants have decided their only route to freedom is to get rid of the Ruskins for good . . .

Contains mature themes.

About Delilah S. Dawson

Delilah S. Dawson is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: PHASMA, plus over twenty other novels for kids, teens, and adults that mostly lean into horror, or at least monsters, human and otherwise. As Lila Bowen, she writes Wake of Vultures and the Shadow series. She's written in the worlds of The X-Files, Firefly, Labyrinth, Adventure Time, Marvel Action Spider-Man, Hellboy, Minecraft, Stranger Things, and Disney Mirrorverse. She once worked in a haunted house, where she excelled as both a cannibal and a dead body. Delilah lives in Atlanta with her family.


Reviews

Goodreads review by ellen on November 30, 2024

oh HELL yeah......more

Goodreads review by Brandon on November 26, 2024

Quick, violent, and fun! Like a mix between the movies Ready Or Not and The Menu.......more

Goodreads review by Jan on September 30, 2024

idk why everyone's hating on this one but it's a badass revenge story with commentary on how people w/ power feel entitled to treat lower-class employees like utter shit just because they can. and as someone who worked retail for 7 years, this hit 🤌🏼 + the kills were pretty sick!......more

Goodreads review by Court on December 25, 2024

3.5⭐️s As RZA once prophesied, “And the survey said… you’re dead. Fatal flying guillotine chops off your fucking head” There aren’t many things in life better than when the depraved and odious elite get their comeuppance , and that’s pretty much what this entire book was. Serving after serving of just......more

Goodreads review by Cece on December 20, 2024

full review on my YouTube channel, ProblemsOfABookNerd! Wow, what a ride. I read the first half of this on a plane, the second half sitting wide awake in bed while everyone else in the house was asleep. It is definitely dark and gory, which pairs well with how opulent the worldbuilding and stage set......more