on November 11, 2025
ISBN: 0593904087
Genres: Horror
Format: Young Adult
Source: MSL Book Review
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“Shiny Happy People” is a young adult horror novel by Clay McLeod Chapman. Kyra is a high school student who refrains from using drugs (due to her absent mother’s addiction), unlike many of her fellow students. Kyra’s brother starts acting strangely in a body-snatcher type way, so she starts investigating. An interesting premise that falls a little flat, though the message that there is power in being yourself is a good theme. This YA horror is an additional purchase where YA body horror is popular.
Reviewed by Kate Radke, Walker Memorial Library, Westbrook, ME.