Hoodnesday: The Addams Projects (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798285533917)

Welcome to Addams Projects Magnet Academy: Where the only thing more rigged than the lottery is the cafeteria food, and survival requires a killer wardrobe and an even sharper wit.

Meet Morti'sha "Moe" Graves. She's not your average scholarship kid. Draped in enough black to mourn a small nation, armed with a PhD in sarcasm, and possessing an eyeliner game sharp enough to cut glass (and possibly a few corrupt administrators), Moe figured Addams Projects was just another circle of educational hell. She was wrong. It's so much worse. And so much weirder.

When students start succumbing to bizarre, stylishly fatal curses - from toxic green pudding to razor-sharp confetti - and the school's embezzling principal seems more concerned with his "Gothic Initiative & Stylistic Enhancement" grant than the rising body count, Moe realizes her carefully curated darkness might be the only thing standing between her classmates and a truly spectacular, and hilariously grim, demise.

Joined by a streetwise hustler with a heart of gold (and pockets full of contraband), a pair of eerily prescient goth-nerd twins, and a janitor whose broom has seen more action than most revolutionaries, Moe must navigate a labyrinth of rigged lotteries, haunted yearbooks, demonic mascots, and corporate corruption that goes all the way to the top.

"Hoodnesday: The Addams Projects" by Rico Havoc is a profane, hilarious, and wildly original dark comedy that blends urban fantasy with biting social satire. If you like your heroines sharp, your humor black as midnight, and your mysteries served with a side of existential dread, grab your combat boots and prepare for a school year you'll never forget. Assuming you survive it.