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In some ways this was better than the first book, but in some ways it wasn't better. It was less gruesome, but had more real terror.
People, once again, are the real monsters in the world. This was infuriating to read,
Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood
Moderate: Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Cursing, Car accident
Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Torture, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol
Minor: Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma
Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body horror, Torture, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting
Minor: Infidelity, Vomit
You also can’t tell me that this wasn’t inspired by the January 6th insurrection.
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cursing, Grief, Car accident, Alcohol
I love Quinn & Rust’s friendship and caretaking of each other without the eye-rolling romance involved! I think Rust is a unique character, he's into weapons but only is them for self-defense and tries to do as little damage as possible.
Graphic: Cursing, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Homophobia
This addition to the story felt so much more scary and out of control than the events from the original Baypen Massacre. I spent a lot of the book wondering how the hell our main characters (Quinn, Rust, and Cole, along with a new character who lived through the original tragedy also, Jerry) where even going to get out of this.
As expected of Clown in a Cornfield this book was fast pace, fun, and didn’t beat around the bush with the outrageous violence and murder. Also, as to be expected, the overarching themes were extremely politically poignant.
My only complaint is, while I loved the way characters were built upon from the last novel…I found myself really frustrated at Cole a lot which made me less invested in him, but his actions weren’t things I’d consider to be out of character either.
The ending could be setting up a third installment of Clown in a Cornfield…or not. I enjoyed the ending either way
Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol
Minor: Infidelity, Dysphoria