Thursday, September 12, 2024

Eat the Rich by Sarah Gailey, Pius Bak, etc.

 

(pb; 2022: graphic novel. Publisher: Boom! Studios.)

 

From the back cover

“Welcome to Crestfall Bluffs.

“With law school and her whole life ahead of her, Joey plans to spend the summer with her boyfriend Astor at his seemingly perfect family home. But beneath all the affluent perfection lies a dark, deadly rot.

“As summer lingers, Joey uncovers the macabre history of Crestfall Bluffs, and the ruthlessness and secrecy lying in wait behind the idyllic lives of the one percent. Who can Joey save? Who wants to be saved? And can she even survive to tell the tale?”

 

Review

This cannibalistic Ready or Not (2019)-meets-Get Out (2017) graphic novel, is a fun, LGBTQ+ read, with computer-graphics artwork (often annoying, but not in this case), spare and effective writing, and solid characters and an equally solid finish, is a short, worthwhile and occasionally bloody suspense-work.


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