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A review by anbar
Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
2.0
A teen slasher movie in book form. A girl's dad moves them to a small town to get away from the local notoriety of her mom's death, unknowingly dropping them into the stew of local tensions over a group of teens whose social media video pranks and hijinks led to an unfortunate tragedy the year before, and a suspicious fire months earlier, which really entrenched the grudge of some of the locals against these no-good teenagers, and got some of said no-good kids trying to put themselves back in the pranking spotlight to bury those earlier SNAFUs. One night someone dressed as the town's clown mascot starts to go on a killing spree, but who is it, and why?
All well and good, and there were a couple of little twists that made it not completely predictable, but if you like realism the final reveal doesn't entirely make sense (how do you convince [spoiler] to [spoiler]? It's a small town where everyone is interconnected, doesn't anyone have ties that would make them [spoiler]? New girl's been in town literally 2 or 3 days and been in public maybe twice, how in that short time has anyone got murderous beef with her?). I will say, though, there are a couple of well-written passages addressing the issue of intergenerational divide quite well.
Maybe I'm not the best audience for this book, since I prefer paranormal horror to slasher horror. If you enjoy slasher films, though, this could be your jam. You might give it more stars than I did. The writing is also simple and straightforward, not flowery or 'trying too hard', so it's not work to get through this; a nice, quick read.
Content warnings: Violence and gore (obviously), teen drinking and mention of marijuana, occasional swear words (nothing gratuitous; if you were being chased by a killer clown you'd drop a few verbal bombs too), but no sex.
All well and good, and there were a couple of little twists that made it not completely predictable, but if you like realism the final reveal doesn't entirely make sense (how do you convince [spoiler] to [spoiler]? It's a small town where everyone is interconnected, doesn't anyone have ties that would make them [spoiler]? New girl's been in town literally 2 or 3 days and been in public maybe twice, how in that short time has anyone got murderous beef with her?). I will say, though, there are a couple of well-written passages addressing the issue of intergenerational divide quite well.
Maybe I'm not the best audience for this book, since I prefer paranormal horror to slasher horror. If you enjoy slasher films, though, this could be your jam. You might give it more stars than I did. The writing is also simple and straightforward, not flowery or 'trying too hard', so it's not work to get through this; a nice, quick read.
Content warnings: Violence and gore (obviously), teen drinking and mention of marijuana, occasional swear words (nothing gratuitous; if you were being chased by a killer clown you'd drop a few verbal bombs too), but no sex.