Kiss Slay Replay
Short description/annotation:
FIRST PRINTING A DELUXE EDITION WITH STENCILED EDGES, SPOT GLOSS AND EMBOSS.
Every wedding guest''s worst nightmare is on repeat in this monstrous, gripping, heartfelt time loop horror story about love, loss, and moving on from the New York Times bestselling author of Cackle and Play Nice.
Description:
FIRST PRINTING A DELUXE EDITION WITH STENCILED EDGES, SPOT GLOSS AND EMBOSS.
Every wedding guest''s worst nightmare is on repeat in this monstrous, gripping, heartfelt time loop horror story about love, loss, and moving on from the New York Times bestselling author of Cackle and Play Nice.
Will this nightmare ever end?
It''s the picture-perfect wedding weekend-the venue is dreamy, the weather is beautiful, love is in the air, and Willa Sullivan is having a bad time. She''s excited to celebrate her best friends finally having the big wedding they always wanted, but this is the first time she''s seeing her ex-fiance in months, and he brought a date. Everything feels off, like she stumbled into an alternate universe. But things start to look up when Willa meets Danny, the groom''s charming and single childhood best friend. When they sneak off together, their rendezvous is interrupted by a masked killer terrorizing the reception. Willa and Danny fight to save the ones they love and survive the night, but the killer is unrelenting. A final girl Willa is not.
Or is she? She wakes up and it''s the morning of the wedding. She just had the most intense nightmare of her life. Only as the day unfolds, there are some uncanny coincidences that make her question if it was really a dream, deja vu, or something more sinister. After a horrifying turn of events, Willa comes to understand that she''s stuck in a loop of carnage and terror that she must learn how to escape or suffer a fate worse than death-being an eternal wedding guest.
Review quote:
PRAISE FOR KISS SLAY REPLAY:
Please can I be in a time loop where I just get to read this novel again for the first time over and over.
-Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Sometimes, you finish a book and have to sit in awe at what the author managed to accomplish. Sometimes, a books makes you do that after every *chapter.* Rachel Harrison''s KISS SLAY REPLAY is just such a book. It''s not simply another career best from the Queen of Contemporary Horror; it''s an absolute feat of imagination. Gory, delightful, whipsmart, bittersweet, and bonkers - I could read this book on a perpetual loop and never complain.
-Nat Cassidy, USA Today bestselling author of When the Wolf Comes Home and Mary
Harrison doubles down on what is expected from a time loop tale-intense unease, existential terror, deep character development, and dark humor-while also presenting original and compelling twists...brilliant.
-Booklist (starred review)
Harrison continues her reign as a modern horror maven with a story that is at turns terrifying and others tender, but always full of sharp wit.
-Library Journal (starred review)
The nightmare-inducing gore, cleverly unpredictable plotting, and, above all, Willa''s emotional arc as she comes into her own, make for exhilarating reading. Horror fans will have a blast with this fun, bloody romp.
-Publishers Weekly
Easily the boldest thing Harrison has written. I went in expecting a clever premise. I came out convinced this is the wedding horror novel of 2026, and one of the sharpest feminist horror books of the decade so far.
-Ginger Nuts of Horror
Praise for Rachel Harrison
Harrison''s feminist horror novels are some of the most original and entertaining out there.
-The New York Times
Rachel Harrison is in a league of her own-maybe a genre of her own. .