You're No Better

The brand-new YA thriller from bestselling, award-winning author Andrew Joseph White – a gritty and unapologetic queer coming-of-age suspense, perfect for true crime enthusiasts and Holly Jackson readers.

Bestselling author Andrew Joseph White returns with another horrific YA thriller: a profound portrait of a struggling teen trying to convince the world—and himself—that hes better than the serial killer who raised him.

Morgan Slaughter, a seventeen-year-old trans boy with autism, put his serial killer father in prison years ago. Despite that, everyone thinks Morgan will grow up to be just like his dad: including his volatile mother, the documentary crew following their family, and maybe himself.

Desperately, Morgan latches onto his fathers final victim—the only one who was never identified—hoping that if he unravels the mystery, hell finally prove hes better than the man who hurt him. But this puts Morgan in the crosshairs of classmate Felicity Keating, who knows the truth about Morgans childhood—that he wasnt just a witness to his fathers brutality, he was an accomplice. And if he doesnt let them help with his investigation? Theyll tell everyone.

Forced to confront his past, Morgans ugly but carefully controlled world unravels. The film crew is manipulative. His mothers temper spirals into malice, then violence. And Morgan and Felicity may be more tightly intertwined than either of them can stomach...

Youre No Better is a gritty and unapologetic coming-of-age suspense about teens who grew up surrounded by cruelty and are clawing their way to adulthood the only way they know how.