Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

A delightful frolic in apple orchards and beyond the private boarding school for refined young women- not! It really is a clever book about a book that gets noticed by female students of a boarding school resulting in more than a couple of deaths which becomes the fodder for another book which spurs a movie. It all started when a Montana woman's memoir ended up in the hands of impressionable young women who form a club for Plain Bad Heroines. The teachings of this book provoke all kinds of free love and a rebellious nature in these women. Strange happenings, stranger deaths and all that rebellious thinking just encourages others to question what really happened at Brookhants and to write more about it and make a movie. This hefty genre blending novel contains delicious wit, horrific scenes involving garden plants and yellow jackets and very inventive footnotes. I dare say, dear reader, that Emily M. Danforth's adult debut will make quite an impression. It is just plain bad fun. For lovers of Lyndsay Faye's JANE STEELE and UPRIGHT WOMEN WANTED- you will devour this.  5 stars