Doe
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Doe
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Imani Jade Powers
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Rebecca Barrow
Maris Larsen is the captain of the West Eaton High cheer team. She’s Coach’s favorite and the team worships her. Being on the team makes her feel special—powerful. When she’s leading the girls on the mat, Maris doesn’t have to think about her dead-end life in a dead-end town. She can forget about her depressed mother and absent father and the fact that her girlfriend doesn’t really love her. But when newcomer and Coach’s new golden girl, Genevieve Ray, joins the team, the only thing going right in Maris’s life is suddenly in jeopardy. A bitter rivalry develops between the two, but Maris is determined to take Genevieve down. The knife she needs to wield comes to Maris in her dreams.
While sleepwalking, Maris is visited by a monstrous, decaying beast in the shape of an enormous deer. Doe is an ancient, tired creature who has been wandering, trapped in her current form for decades. She cannot die, but she cannot go on living as she has. Only a girl related by blood to those who bound her in this form can free her, but those girls she loved died years ago—murdered in a fire.
But Maris is somehow linked to Doe’s beloved girls—linked by blood—and so she has the power to free Doe, to unleash her immense power. In Maris’s dreams, she and Doe form a bond, but Maris doesn’t know the creature from her dreams is real. Maris doesn’t understand the danger she’s in. She only knows Doe has promised her a way to win her battle with Genevieve. But for Maris to win, someone has to die, and the only real winner in the end will be Doe.
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Critic reviews
Praise for Doe:
★ “Barrow’s novel in verse weaves together a story that offers a compassionate but visceral look at how girlhood, race, and socioeconomic status impact the teen girls, shaping both their loyalty and their viciousness. Perspective and tone shift as chapters move between Maris’ first-person narration, a sort of Greek chorus from the cheer team, and a folkloric omnipotent voice focused on Doe. That last perspective weaves in the horror element…Hand to readers looking for a grittier Bring It On mixed with Jamison Shea’s I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me.”—BCCB, starred review
★ “In this surreal, darkly fantastical novel in verse… Barrow creates a visceral image of how misogyny keeps girls fighting one another for scraps, how shared solidarity within a group can turn into violence against anyone deemed an outsider, and how power is a volatile double-edged sword.”—The Horn Book
“Rececca has written a reckoning. Doe represents YA at its best and horror at its finest because it so unflinchingly confronts the brutal realities that underpin both. Rebecca has spun a story that is so viscerally and electrically alive and emerges a writer at the top of her craft. I will remember this book, and I will follow its author wherever she goes. Brilliant. I loved it. The team was right—all it took was one girl to undo us all. I AM UNDONE!!!”—Courtney Summers, New York Times bestselling author of Sadie
“Perfect for fans of Megan Abbott’s Dare Me. A darkly glittering thriller in verse, Doe vividly captures the ferocity of girlhood. Sharp, wounded, and unsettling—this is Barrow at her very best.”—Rory Power, New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls
“An interestingly dark story warning of the struggles of small-town culture, teens who get lost in the cracks of those towns, and feminine rage. A worthy choice for readers who appreciate emotionally complicated, unlikable narrators and folk horror.”—Booklist
★ “Barrow’s novel in verse weaves together a story that offers a compassionate but visceral look at how girlhood, race, and socioeconomic status impact the teen girls, shaping both their loyalty and their viciousness. Perspective and tone shift as chapters move between Maris’ first-person narration, a sort of Greek chorus from the cheer team, and a folkloric omnipotent voice focused on Doe. That last perspective weaves in the horror element…Hand to readers looking for a grittier Bring It On mixed with Jamison Shea’s I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me.”—BCCB, starred review
★ “In this surreal, darkly fantastical novel in verse… Barrow creates a visceral image of how misogyny keeps girls fighting one another for scraps, how shared solidarity within a group can turn into violence against anyone deemed an outsider, and how power is a volatile double-edged sword.”—The Horn Book
“Rececca has written a reckoning. Doe represents YA at its best and horror at its finest because it so unflinchingly confronts the brutal realities that underpin both. Rebecca has spun a story that is so viscerally and electrically alive and emerges a writer at the top of her craft. I will remember this book, and I will follow its author wherever she goes. Brilliant. I loved it. The team was right—all it took was one girl to undo us all. I AM UNDONE!!!”—Courtney Summers, New York Times bestselling author of Sadie
“Perfect for fans of Megan Abbott’s Dare Me. A darkly glittering thriller in verse, Doe vividly captures the ferocity of girlhood. Sharp, wounded, and unsettling—this is Barrow at her very best.”—Rory Power, New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls
“An interestingly dark story warning of the struggles of small-town culture, teens who get lost in the cracks of those towns, and feminine rage. A worthy choice for readers who appreciate emotionally complicated, unlikable narrators and folk horror.”—Booklist
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