e-Audio, 08:45:11
Narrated by: Barrett Leddy
Release Date: July 5, 2022
Published by: Books on Tape
Read from: July 18-20, 2022
Stand-alone
Source: Library’s Libby
TW: Blood, Death
For Readers Interested In: Realistic Fiction, Thrillers, Romance, Horror, YAIn a Florida tourist trap, a summer acting job turns into a real-life horror show when a cast member turns up dead—then disappears. This nail-biting story is perfect for fans of Fear Street!
Dave is spending his final summer before college working at Frightmares House of Horrors, a struggling haunted house attraction held together by malfunctioning killer clown mannequins, a cheap replica Annabelle doll, and a lot of improvising.
After a particularly disastrous shift ends in an employee walkout, Dave reluctantly takes over a role for his friend, however, he makes a horrifying discovery—a real dead body, hidden on set. But when Dave returns with help, the body is gone.
Though the killer covered their tracks, Dave realizes they must know what he saw. Could he be their next target?
*MY THOUGHTS*
I went in to this expecting horror, but what I got was really like a thriller. And it was really nothing to write home about. It made me sad because I really wanted to like it, but I also really wanted it to be scary too soooo…..
When I was looking into this I was so happy to get some horror in YA. But then I read it…. And I was disappointed. This is more of a thriller. Yes I like thrillers, but not when I’m promised a horror novel. I’m thinking it was called horror because of the setting, but even still… It set in a place that was designed to scare people. But it was falling apart and had different people in different spots all the time who didn’t know their new lines enough to do that. And because of that, it didn’t seem so creepy to me. To be honest, if I had went there I would have asked for my money back lol
If this had been marketed as a thriller I would have liked it way more. The killings that were happening were so interesting the way they just disappeared. To be honest, that’s the way they got me. I wanted to keep reading because I needed to know how they were able to get rid of the body so fast. I also wanted to know how they did it and still made him look crazy. These were the most thrilling things that happened in this tho.
There is a romance that was really weird. I don’t know, I just can’t understand who the hell would be in this situation and find that they have time to fall in love or be flirting with someone. But this one has that weird romance. Granted she doesn’t show up right away, but it’s still weird to me. It wasn’t a huge part of the story, but it was still there. I think so that they can say he had something to fight for.
The ending was way too fast. It was like this whole entire story was the build up, but then once it came to a head, it popped and then it all spilled out and BOOM it was quickly over in like 2 minutes. (I was listening to it on 2x’s the speed tho lol) I just think it could have been done better. Then the epilogue came and I was just weirded out. Definitely could have done without it. All it did was tell where they were after the whole ordeal and how they were getting along. Definitely wasn’t anything to write home about.
This book was weird and I don’t even know how I finished it. It wasn’t something I would love to write home about, but it was horror and I don’t see it much so I had to try. And now I know that I need to double check things first, because this was not what I signed up for.
Overall, I give this
