2022/113: Kill the Boy Band — Goldy Moldavsky

2022/113: Kill the Boy Band — Goldy Moldavsky

I did love The Ruperts a lot. I loved them more than vanilla ice cream in summer, more than seeing a new review of one of my fanfics, more than discovering a good ’80s movie I’d never seen before. Just because I was a Ruperts fangirl does not mean I was crazy. [p. 5]

The nameless narrator (who uses a number of aliases from her favourite 80s movies) is staying, with her three best friends, at the Rondack, an upmarket New York hotel. The Rondack also happens to be hosting the Ruperts, a boy band comprising four young Brits (all named Rupert) who met, and were made into a group, on a UK talent show. The girls (Erin, Apple, Isabel and our narrator) are all 15, and are determined to meet their idols. But we can tell from the novel's opening -- they have one of the Ruperts tied to a chair in their room -- that it's all going to go horribly wrong.( Read more... )