The Last Girls Standing by Jennifer Dugan

The Last Girls Standing

Jennifer Dugan

Penguin Young Readers Group · Paperback · August 13, 2024

This queer YA psychological thriller from the author of Some Girls Do is now in paperback, featuring a glow-in-the-dark cover! “Shocking, captivating, and utterly chilling.

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Who it’s for
A lean, eerie thriller that keeps the pages moving without getting precious.
Genres
YA Psychological Thrillers, YA LGBTQ+, YA Horror
Published
Penguin Young Readers Group, August 13, 2024

About this book

This queer YA psychological thriller from the author of Some Girls Do is now in paperback, featuring a glow-in-the-dark cover! “Shocking, captivating, and utterly chilling. A delicious thriller that will have you tearing through pages to get to the end, where you won’t be disappointed.” —Jessica Goodman, bestselling author of They Wish They Were Us and The Counselors Sloan and Cherry. Cherry and Sloan.

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They met only a few days before masked men with machetes attacked the summer camp where they worked, a massacre that left the rest of their fellow counselors dead. Now, months later, the two are inseparable, their traumatic experience bonding them in ways no one else can understand. But as new evidence comes to light and Sloan learns more about the motives behind the ritual killing that brought them together, she begins to suspect that her girlfriend may be more than just a survivor—she may actually have been a part of it. Cherry tries to reassure her, but Sloan only becomes more distraught. Is this gaslighting or reality? Is Cherry a victim or a perpetrator? Is Sloan confused, or is she seeing things clearly for the very first time? Against all odds, Sloan survived that hot summer night. But will she survive what comes next?

Tense and Strange

A lean, eerie thriller that keeps the pages moving without getting precious.

Come here for

  • Edgy suspense with a practical edge
  • Accessible, high-tension momentum

Expect

  • Psychological pressure
  • Crime-tinged supernatural unease

Where it sits

YA Psychological Thrillers65%
YA Horror60%
YA LGBTQ+55%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • YA Horror
  • YA Romance - LGBTQ+
  • YA Psychological Thrillers
Authors
Jennifer Dugan
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Published
August 13, 2024
Format
Paperback
Reading lane
YA Horror