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A scholarship kid with straight As and massive potential, Evie Gordon always thought she was special, that she'd be someone.
But after graduating from an elite university, she finds herself drowning in debt and working as a private tutor to the children of Los Angeles's super-rich.
Everything changes when Evie arrives at the Victor family's lavish mansion for her weekly lesson to discover, not the bored teenager she excepted, but pure carnage: the bloody remains of Mr and Mrs Victor sullying their beautiful back garden, and a woman crying for help from within the walls of the house.
Within moments, Evie and the woman go from bystanders to suspects to fugitives.
Suddenly at the heart of a nation-wide manhunt, Evie finds that her mysterious companion, who refuses to speak, has quickly become the most important person in her upside-down life. Meanwhile, the press runs wild with Evie's story - anointing her the new Charles Manson, a blood thirsty ninety-nine percenter looking to start a class war.
Evie is - finally and disastrously - someone.
Droll, dark and deeply insightful, Killer Potential is an edge-of-your-seat break-neck ride, a queer love story, and a darkly funny critique of the horrors of late capitalism and how the stories we're sold about our potential can shape the course of our lives.
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A scholarship kid with straight As and massive potential, Evie Gordon always thought she was special, that she'd be someone.
But after graduating from an elite university, she finds herself drowning in debt and working as a private tutor to the children of Los Angeles's super-rich.
Everything changes when Evie arrives at the Victor family's lavish mansion for her weekly lesson to discover, not the bored teenager she excepted, but pure carnage: the bloody remains of Mr and Mrs Victor sullying their beautiful back garden, and a woman crying for help from within the walls of the house.
Within moments, Evie and the woman go from bystanders to suspects to fugitives.
Suddenly at the heart of a nation-wide manhunt, Evie finds that her mysterious companion, who refuses to speak, has quickly become the most important person in her upside-down life. Meanwhile, the press runs wild with Evie's story - anointing her the new Charles Manson, a blood thirsty ninety-nine percenter looking to start a class war.
Evie is - finally and disastrously - someone.
Droll, dark and deeply insightful, Killer Potential is an edge-of-your-seat break-neck ride, a queer love story, and a darkly funny critique of the horrors of late capitalism and how the stories we're sold about our potential can shape the course of our lives.
Evie’s life hasn’t quite gone to plan, in spite of her firm belief in social mobility. Though highly intelligent and academically gifted, she now finds herself adrift and in a limbo-like state with no real grasp of direction or vocation. To get by, she tutors a bored adolescent, the offspring of a wealthy Los Angeles power couple; a one-percenter family with it all. Arriving one day for her tutoring session, Evie finds the wealthy parents have been brutally murdered. While she is still in the mansion, she makes the startling discovery of a young woman tied up in a closet.
Any sense of her ‘good Samaritan’ actions in freeing the traumatised young woman are quickly shot to pieces. Spotted leaving the house rather than summoning emergency services, Evie is accused of the murders, sparking a huge manhunt. Ironically, now labelled a neo-Charles Manson, Evie has finally achieved status, albeit disastrously.
Gradually, Evie and her mute companion begin to trust each other, forming a deeper bond in their shared experiences as fugitives on the run. As is typical for the genre, all that glitters is not gold, and the depravity of Evie’s wealthy employers is exposed.
There’s quite a lot going on in this book: social inequality, sensationalist media (one quick to ignore physical evidence in a quest for truth), a queer love story, sexual and physical abuse, trafficking, murder, to say nothing of Evie’s floundering sense of identity. Admittedly though, this book is quite a lot of fun. Killer Potential succeeds in being totally serious and insightful while at the same time completely ridiculous. Read this if you enjoy gallows humour, or if you loved the antics of Thelma & Louise, but also if you read Emma Styles’ No Country for Girls.
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