Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison
Publisher: Berkley Publisher
Publication Date: September 1, 2026
Format: Hardcover - 318 pages
Audiobook - 10 Hours 27 Minutes
Kindle - 318 pages
Nook - 336 pages
ISBN (Hardcover): 979-8217188581
ASIN (Audiobook): B0GFYHWMTM
ASIN (Kindle): B0G76FT1G3
BNID (Nook): 979-8217188581
Genre: Horror
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Book Description:
Every wedding guest’s worst nightmare is on repeat in this wild and twisty new horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of So Thirsty and Play Nice.
It’s the picture-perfect wedding weekend: The venue is dreamy, the weather is beautiful, love is in the air—and Willa Sullivan is having a bad time. She’s excited to celebrate her best friends’ finally having the big wedding they’ve always wanted, but this is the first time she’s seen her ex-fiancé in months, and he brought a date. Everything feels off, like she stumbled into an alternate universe. But things start to look up when Willa meets Danny, the groom’s charming and single childhood best friend. When they sneak off together, their rendezvous is interrupted by a masked killer terrorizing the reception. Willa and Danny fight to save the ones they love and survive the night, but the killer is unrelenting. A final girl Willa is not.
Or is she? She wakes up and it’s the morning of the wedding. She just had the most intense nightmare of her life. Only as the day unfolds, there are some uncanny coincidences that make her question whether it was really a dream, déjà vu, or something more sinister. After a horrifying turn of events, Willa comes to understand that she’s stuck in a loop of carnage and terror that she must learn how to escape or else suffer a fate worse than death—being an eternal wedding guest.
My Book Review:
In Kiss Slay Replay, author Rachel Harrison weaves an interesting horror story that draws the reader into an eerie storyline that follows a woman who gets trapped in a deadly time-loop during her friends' wedding weekend.
Set in the Hudson Valley, Willa Sullivan travels to a wedding weekend at a lakeside wedding venue. Willa has been in a funk since she broke up with her ex-fiancé Ravi, and she's been dealing with a broken heart, a lot of regrets, and not looking forward to seeing him again. As the day unfolds, Willa feels something isn't right, and she gets trapped in a deadly time-loop where a killer stalks the wedding guests. Can Willa find a way to end the time-loop, or will she and everyone else be stuck getting killed every day?
Set in the Hudson Valley, Willa Sullivan travels to a wedding weekend at a lakeside wedding venue. Willa has been in a funk since she broke up with her ex-fiancé Ravi, and she's been dealing with a broken heart, a lot of regrets, and not looking forward to seeing him again. As the day unfolds, Willa feels something isn't right, and she gets trapped in a deadly time-loop where a killer stalks the wedding guests. Can Willa find a way to end the time-loop, or will she and everyone else be stuck getting killed every day?
Kiss Slay Replay is not your usual horror story. This is a really weird time-loop tale where Willa relives the same day over and over. I am not a fan of time-loop stories, and reading about how she relived the same day seven times was a bit too much for me, but it was interesting that each day did have different scenarios that kept me interested. While I found Willa to be really annoying, I finally understood the reason why she relived the same day over and over in the closing chapters of the story, and it finally made sense!
In Kiss Slay Replay, the author does a great job of weaving a story that is rich in detail and vivid descriptions. While it wasn't the usual horror tale that I enjoy reading, there were some eerie, gory, and sinister terror scenes that made up for it.
RATING: 4 STARS
About The Author
Rachel Harrison is the New York Times Bestselling author of PLAY NICE, SO THIRSTY, BLACK SHEEP, SUCH SHARP TEETH, CACKLE, and THE RETURN. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and in her debut story collection BAD DOLLS. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and their cat/overlord. Her next novel, KISS SLAY REPLAY, was recently published on September 1, 2026, from Berkley in the US and Titan in the UK.
