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    Kill the Boy Band

    By Goldy Moldavsky

    3.5/5

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    The New York Times–bestselling debut story of four superfan friends whose devotion to their favorite band has darkly comical and deadly results.

    Just know from the start that it wasn’t supposed to go like this. All we wanted was to get near them. That’s why we got a room in the hotel where they were staying.

    We were not planning to kidnap one of them. Especially not the most useless one. But we had him—his room key, his cell phone, and his secrets.

    We were not planning on what happened next. We swear.

    Praise for Kill the Boy Band

    “Moldavsky’s sharp, shocking debut is like no other.” —Entertainment Weekly

    “Fiercely entertaining . . . One of the smartest YA releases of the year.” —New York Daily News

    “Misery for the Belieber generation.” —Observer.com

    “Boy bands gets the Heathers treatment in this madcap macabre . . . A sendup of the artificiality of the fame-making machine from both sides, the novel’s humor is mercilessly black, and no one comes up smelling like roses.” —Kirkus Reviews

    “Wickedly funny.” —NPR.org

    “Bitingly satirical.” —Publishers Weekly

    “[For] anyone who’s ever had the fortune-or misfortune-of being a fan.” —Booklist

    “Hilarious . . . A must-have.” —School Library Journal
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateFeb 23, 2016
    ISBN9780545867481
    Author

    Goldy Moldavsky

    Goldy Moldavsky writes YA fiction from her hometown of Brooklyn. She studied journalism in college, where she got to interview some cool celebrities for her school paper. After a bit she realized it’d be more fun making up stories about celebrities, so that’s what she does in her writing. Her debut novel, KILL THE BOY BAND, was a New York Times Bestseller. Her YA horror novel THE LAST GIRL published in 2021.

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    Reviews for Kill the Boy Band

    3.5/5

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    • 5/5
      When stanning (STalk fAN) goes to far, 4 girls wind up kidnapping a member of their favorite boy band. This is a fun and funny book that totes sounds like a modern teenage girl. It also peeks into deeper issues of friendship and how we deal with trauma. Some "bad" words but nothing that teenagers don't here at school all the time anyway.
    • 3/5
      Um wow, "what did you think? " has never been such a loaded question. it was an incredibly odd story riddled with youthful obsession and terrible mistakes. It's a story I wouldn't really recommend to others and yet I couldn't put it down and finished it in one setting. It's given me a lot to think on in the terms of: why do we like some things, a genuine interest, or just because others love it and it's something to be apart of, and how far are we willing to go for the things we place our mistaken love in. It gives an interesting if not extreme idea of fangirls and what they're capable of from the viewpoint of one of those girls as she starts to question her own obsession.
      Things I didn't like
      cussing to the point of excess more like because fifteen year old cussing is "cool" than any real character portrayal or point
      The main character played the goodie two shoes always insisting what they're doing is wrong and never quite counting herself among them or part if it while constantly classifying her friends as "The mastermind" "the clueless one" ect
      Somehow in all of this turmoil and moral strife there is a romance for the main character. Seemed like it was just tossed in to fulfill a personal fantasy. I'm just not a fan of romance being in every single book even ones that have much bigger plot points to focus on.
      The main character kept insisting g what they we're doing was wrong and she was fairly aware of how ridiculous she was being but didn't really do anything about it aside from acknowledging it was true

      Don't get me wrong I'm not sorry to have read this book. I enjoyed the concept and insite but unless I've a friend fangirling so hard they're at risk of giving themselves an aneurism I wouldn't recommend this unless it was to warn that person to chill. There's nothing wrong with liking or even loving something but there are extreams people probably shouldn't go to, and these girls give a pretty good account of why.
    • 5/5
      They never meant for things to go as far as they did. Narrated by a teen girl whose real name you never get to know (she changes them as she introduces herself to others as characters from 80s movies such as Diane Court from Say Anything) this book starts off with a group of four teen girls who have kidnapped the least liked of the most popular boy band in the world, The Ruperts. The Ruperts were formed when they all appeared as contestants on the show So You Think the British Don't Have Talent? One of the judges noticed all the Ruperts signs in the audience and thought the four of them should form a band together to finish out the competition. So Rupert Lemon (who did an opera jazz song), Rupert Kirke (who did something on an acoustic guitar), Rupert Xavier (who combined singing with modeling), and Rupert Pierpont (the juggler) all got together and formed The Ruperts and won the contest and were an overnight success.What got the girls in the mess they are in now is that The Ruperts decided to do a show called The Ruperts Learn About Thanksgiving! in New York City where the four girls, Erin, the gorgeous boss (who likes Rupert L.), Isobel the commanding crazy one with the all the info on the band and a website dedicated to them (who likes Rupert X) , and Apple (who likes Rupert P), who is overweight and whose parents have a lot of money, live. Diane likes Rupert K. The girls desperately want tickets to the show. Apple's maid gets them a room since they aren't adults and can't get it for themselves, at the hotel the boys are staying at. When Apple goes out to get ice she spots Rupert P and she tackles him and brings him back to the room. They immediately tie him up with stockings and blindfold him.Diane wants to do the right thing and untie Rupert P and let him go before they get into the kind of trouble that leads to jail. But will she be able to beat the peer pressure beating down on her by her friends who are growing crazier by the second and taking her with them down a demented path that will go where you least expect it to? This book explores the idea of boy bands and the good and evil that they inspire in their followers in a darkly humorous way. I really loved this book and its originality and crazy ideas. I highly recommend reading it.
    • 4/5
      Oh my, this book was dark, sadistic and funny. As you read this tale of the bizarre, you wonder, how are they going to get out of this, then the murderous tale takes a new twist. The reviews for this book are over the place from abject hate to fabulous. I read is as part of my book club otherwise I would gave overlooked this one. I don't recommend it for middle school reading due to nature situations, language and the fact that it can destroy the fun we have idolizing our singing heroes. That's not a bad thing us it, until it goes way too far.
    • 4/5
      Narrated by Barrett Wilbert Weed. Oh, what snarky bitches! Weed's performance is terrific, portraying teen girls in the throes of fandom while bogged in extraordinary circumstances. Every nuance, stressed syllable, sigh and laugh is on point, creating vivid characteristics that listeners may well recognize from their own social circles. All at once the book skewers and venerates fandom and in Weed's voice we can appreciate both sides. Lib notes: language, sexual references.
    • 3/5
      A very original story with lots of laugh out loud moments and dark humor.
    • 4/5
      I received a free copy of this book through Goodreads Giveaways.This was a fun read and very engaging. It offers insight into fandom and obsession and also explores friendship and peer pressure in a light-hearted way. I liked the changing friendship between the narrator and her best friend. I did wish that the perpetrator hadn't been hinted at so early and had been more of a surprise. I also thought it would be more fitting if we learned the narrator's actual name at the end, since she grew into herself a bit as an individual.