First Fiction Fridays: Boring Girls by Sara Taylor

What:Boring Girls (ECW Press, April 2015)Who: Sara Taylor sings and writes songs for the Billboard-charting band The Birthday Massacre. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, with her Shetland sheepdog.Why you need to read this now: In Boring Girls, The Birthday Massacre vocalist Sara Taylor takes readers on a bloodstained journey into the dark heart of the music industry. Kindred spirits Rachel and Fern form their own band while in high school, but the metal scene turns out to be no different than the misogynist world they want to change. Violent encounters escalate, and the friends decide there’s only one way forward . . . As the madness deepens, their band’s success heightens, and their taste for revenge grows ravenous.This visceral story of friendship, music, and bloody revenge is anything but boring.What other people are saying about Boring Girls:“An incredibly honest, cogent and disturbing portrayal of what it is like to be a woman working in a male-dominated scene and art . . . Boring Girls is a bloody, vulgar, violent book that pulls no punches . . . it’s a harrowing read.” —National Post“One of the spring’s most intriguing debut novels, about a pair of female metalheads, begins thusly: ‘It seems like everyone I talk to wants to know two things. One is whether I’m a serial killer or a mass murderer.’” —Globe and Mail“A gripping psychological portrait and riveting tale of female friendship and the power of music.” —Publishers Weekly* * *Thank you to ECW for sharing this title with us! If you want to learn more about Boring Girls and read some excerpts you can catch up with a blog tour Sara did last month here.