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You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron

121 reviews

clovetra's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

i am so confused. i went in thinking this would be a classic slasher horror. it was not!
i’m ngl i went into this thinking in the beginning chapters that this would be a 4-star at least. but the end half of this book went buck-wild in the worst way.
i’ll be nice and go over positives - gay people!!!!! i love the gays. i also love the gen-z language seamlessly worked into dialogue. some authors do such a bad job of imitating gen-z slang but i think it was done really well here! i also loved charity and bezi so much ugh they’re my queens
ok and now on to the negatives…… man what the fuck did i just read. this book was lowkey marketed to be a slasher. suddenly we have…. whatever the ending was! not only did it feel like it came out of left field & was poorly explained, the actual horror was crammed into like 50 pages. cmon it’s a 200 page book you didn’t need to spend 150 pages setting up the end. like if you needed that time to set it up…. make the actual horror element longer? make the book itself longer????????? what are we doing here.
like i still don’t fully understand the ending and the “perpetrator”. bro shit just kept coming out of every where not making any sense. 
plus, when your story takes so long to actually begin the meat of it…. i get bored. like seriously i didn’t need to hear for the umpteenth time that felix & the others are slackers!!! ooooo!! like cmon from the blurb i knew they were dead. you didn’t have to pretend i didn’t know for almost three fourths of this book.
plus the ending……. Huh? like how did they survive…. 
idk man. this book was trying to subvert expectations commonly found in horror stories, and create the perfect “final girl”, but in attempting to do that the actual story itself was not good. charity was characterised super well! but the plot was rushed, poorly fleshed out, and confusing as all hell.
i’m ngl tho even though i just tore this book up i can’t lie and say it didn’t entice me. my ass was sat. esp since a twitter moot recommended it!!!!! like if i could rate the characters? 4/5. some characters fell flat but bro i loved charity. the story? 1/5. in my mind this averages out to my rating. 
hey even if a book is absolute garbage (looking at you twilight) if i have fun it’s going to get a high rating sorry! but as much as i found this fun i cannot look past these flaws. like they bugged me sooooo much reading this. 
i feel like i need a cleansing good horror story after this. i’m gonna have to read fuckjng motherthing or something now like a palate cleanser.
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corsetedfeminist's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

This books reads like a slasher movie feels, and I mean that in a complementary way. It details a girl working at a horror summer camp that suddenly becomes far too real. 
If you like slasher films, you’ll probably like this, as it has most of the same tropes and somewhat nonsensical plot points. The one advantage is that the main character and love interest are actually multifaceted and fairly smart. They’re also a Black lesbian couple, and making something gay always makes it better. 
Less gore than some horror books, but what it lacks in gore it makes up for in atmosphere, plot twists, and spooky vibes- by the last few chapters, my heart was racing and I was desperate to know what would happen next and who would survive
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itsheyfay's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

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fast-paced

3.5

Super fast paced and generally liked it. The twist of who is mainly responsible was a lil surprising but another part was a lil predictable. I didn't LOVE the end/epilogue but I didn't hate it either. 
Would've liked a little expansion on Lilliard and whatever his deal was
(like why he was pretty chill with Ms. Keane and why he hated the camp. How much did he know/not know)
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dexkit10's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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haley49's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

This was an edge of my seat read that kept me going until the end
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llams's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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reedandright's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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albare's review against another edition

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dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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quercine's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I have never read a horror novel that so perfectly captured the essence of horror movies. A love letter to the slasher genre, an evisceration of the slasher genre. It hits all the tropes just right but remixes them in the best ways. It was not at all what I thought it would be but it was so well written that I was ready for anywhere it took me. Charity’s voice is the perfect blend of sardonic and earnest. Character arcs don’t typically get a lot of focus in the horror genre, but I didn’t mind so much here because bare minimum most of the characters were fleshed out enough to at least make me mourn them when they met their ends. 
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