![]() ![]() Three of the teens saw their soulmates while one had the misfortune of glimpsing Mary with her Medusa-like hair coils, soulless eyes, and blood dripping down her face. With a storm raging outside, it’s a perfectly creepy opening that will resonate with anyone who’s been lured into calling the woman’s name. She told her carpool buddies that the mirror would show them their soulmates or Blood Mary herself which meant they’d die young. Each teen called Blood Mary when they were nine years old at the urging of Elena, who’d revealed to them an antique mirror in her deceased grandmother’s room. Mary, Will I Die? is told from four perspectives–Elena, Steph, Grace, and Calvin. Mary, Will I Die? is a good read for the Halloween season Sarles takes Mary’s myth and spins a tale for a new age, adding more to her story than the chant of her name and the fright of children. ![]() ![]() One meant to send shivers down young one’s spines as they dare each other to look in the mirror and call the terrifying woman to the forefront of reality. Mary, Will I Die?, a young adult book by Shawn Sarles, breathes new life into the Bloody Mary myth of old.īloody Mary, whose origins always change as does the number of times you must say her name to summon her, has been a part of pop culture and many people’s everyday childhoods for decades if not longer.Ĭalling her name is practically a right of passage as a kid. ![]()
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