e-Audiobook, 10:57:35
Narrated by: Alex Raby
Release Date: October 28, 2025
Published by: Dreamscape Media
Read from: October 28-29, 2025
Stand-alone
Source: Audible Credit
Content Warning: Murder, Violence, Gore, Animal Death, Pedophilia, Gaslighting, Domestic Abuse, Child Abuse, Child Death
For Readers Interested In: Audible, Audio, Horror, Most Anticipated, Realistic Fiction, Thrillers, YA, SlashersThe set of a low-budget slasher film turns into a real-life horror movie in this twisty, wicked blend of Scream meets The Reappearance of Rachel Price from Olivia Worley.
When recent high school graduate Hazel Lejeune gets the lead role in a slasher film, it feels like a dream come true. This is her chance to break into the industry, build her reel, and prove to her mom that this “gap year” can turn into a career. So what if it’s set in the nothing town of Pine Springs, Louisiana–the same place her father, the Pine Springs Slasher, was convicted of a series of murders fifteen years ago?
But when Haze arrives on set, she gets much more than she bargained for. The shoot is plagued with suspicious “accidents.” Mentions of her dad dot the entire script. And then, a gruesome murder shocks everyone to the core. Now, it’s clear there’s a real killer on set—one who’s determined to finish the film at all costs. But is this merely a copycat, or is the wrong Slasher behind bars?
As the body count rises and reality blurs with fiction, Haze must unmask the killer before she becomes a real-life final girl…or before the killer flips the script and makes her the next victim.
*MY THOUGHTS*
As soon as I heard about this book I almost broke my finger clicking to add it to my TBR pile. This book is everything I love about slashers. There’s the suspense, the shocking person whodunit, and more. This book was good, but it did have some faults. I really hope she writes another!
Ok so the main thing that I didn’t care for in this book was the pacing. For it to be a horror book, I think I wanted it to be more fast paced. It was more medium paced if anything. I know it was mostly to like let the story breathe, but I’m not sure that works in a slasher book. It works fine in the movies, but the books are different. I think I would have rated it perfectly if there were more spots where they were scared or screaming lol
I also liked that I didn’t guess who it was. And *spoiler* it wasn’t someone who just randomly showed up at the end!*end spoiler* I can’t stand when they do that. Its like cheating almost lol So yeah, I think I really liked that. I did get parts of it right, but yeah not the person or people whodunit and that made it good to me. I thought it was going to be like Michael Myers and not give a real person, but like make them super hard to kill lol But in the end it was indeed something much scarier…. A real person or two.
This is gooing to sound weird, but I also liked the kil!ing scenes too. They were like really creative, but also worked in a real life setting? Like the knife one? That really could have been counted off as an accident and I was hanging on every word like I was the MC. I even allowed myself to be gaslighted like they did by the manager. And like, anything that happens like that, I congratulated the author because they did a good job lol
This wasn’t a make or break kind of book, but it was a welcome back to the genre. There’s not many (good imo) YA slasher books out there, so I will take what I can get. And this one was one of the good ones. So if you haven’t read it and you like slashers, you need to read this too! And come back and let me know what you think of it once you’re done. I need to make sure I’m not alone in getting it wrong lol
Overall, I give this
