Goooood evening everyone~

Welcome to a new Waiting on Wednesday and happy Wednesday to all my dear readers!

Today’s book I am eagerly waiting for is Smile for the Cameras by Miranda Smith! I encountered this book on BlueSky and was instantly wanting it! Final girls, horror, documentaries being filmed (I hope this means some mixed media stuff like scripts), and of course murder murder murder. It sounds like a fantastic slasher perfect for the summer. I am so in a horror mood, well been all year for some reason, normally my mood reader self is going all over things, but this year she doesn’t mind other things but prefers horror or spooky stuff the most.

So now it is waiting until the paperback comes out or until the hardcover isn’t unavailable/30 euros.

An actress desperate to reclaim her fame must survive the real-life plot of the horror movie that made her famous in this psychologically twisted locked-room thriller influenced by ’90s slasher films.

Twenty years ago, Ella Winters was the it girl. She made a name for herself in Hollywood and throughout America as the final survivor in the cult-classic slasher Grad Night. But the real horror is what happened when the cameras weren’t rolling—something terrible that Ella and her co-stars agreed never to speak of again. Shortly after the movie’s premiere, Ella disappeared from the acting scene under the pretense of caring for her ailing mother, hoping for a quiet life out of the spotlight to ease her guilty mind.

Now, after her mother’s passing, Ella has decided to return to the silver screen. And with the cast and crew of Grad Night in the process of filming a reunion documentary, Ella has the perfect ticket back into Hollywood’s good graces. Weighed down by the secret she’s been keeping all these years, Ella apprehensively makes the trip to the original set—a cabin in rural Tennessee—to reunite with her castmates for the first time in over a decade. But when the actors begin to meet the exact gruesome fates of the characters they originally played, falling victim to someone dressed as the Grad Night villain, it’s clear their secret is out.

Now, the question Can the final girl survive one last nightmare?