"Alice, what did the penguin always say to you?"
"Now then, if you get the sudden urge to start trusting someone, be smart and do away with it."
Alice Gray has survived the unthinkable. When she was fourteen, she was stabbed by two fellow classmates in honor of a fictional character of Alice's father's own making: Mister Tender.
Now, fourteen years later, Alice is still haunted everytime she sees her scars, sees somebody new in her coffee shop, notices when someone is followingjust a little too closely or says something a little too close to her life. She works without touching knives, she does not keep knives in her house and the last time she held a knife was, roughly, fourteen years ago.
But, with the anniversary fast approaching, there is someone out there who knows Alice's secrets. Who knows why she changed her name. Who knows every scar on her body. Who knows her daily routine. And this someone insists on calling himself Mr. Interested, an anagram of Mister Tender, the fictional character who has claimed her nighttime since the Glassin twins decided that they would follow his rules.
Alice quickly learns nothing is sacred or secret in her life with the discover of a site that leads her to a thread called "All Things Alice." Someone has been watching her in secret. Someone has been following her every move. Someone has been uploading photos of her house, her at her work and walking, her upstairs tenant.
Is it one of the Glassin twins, since they have recently been released? Is it the arrival of the elderly gentleman in her coffee shop who has never been there before and who makes her uneasy? Is it her ex, Jimmy, who is too high to be this elaborate but it is possible. Or is it someone else entirely? Someone who was also there, fourteen years ago, and who saved her once and wants to save her again?
"Mister Tender's Girl" was such a fast-paced, nail-biting plot twist of a novel. I could not put it down once I started reading it. Wilson keeps your attention from the very last page and makes you wonder just who you can truly trust in your day-to-day life.
"Mister Tender's Girl" is based on true events taking place in 2014 centering around CreepyPasta's creation of the fictional character, Slenderman. Two 12-year-old girls stabbed another 12-year-old nineteen times in "honor" of Slenderman, hoping to appease the character. While those events are real, the events in Wilson's novel are fictional and only loosely based around the true case. Mister Tender is a creation of Carter Wilson's own mind.
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