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Clown in a Cornfield

Adam Cesare

3.75 AVERAGE

adventurous dark funny tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
dark tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

“GOTTA POP THESE KIDS LIKE CORN” -Frendo

This was a silly slasher book. Fun kills, little slow start, and overall enjoyable. These kids are low-key annoying though. I mighta put on the mask too ngl
adventurous tense medium-paced

More like Clown in a WOKEfield.

This was decent. Gives you exactly what you come to a slasher for. Plot is fairly thin and the writing is okay for what it is, but I found myself not being able to put it down for the last half. And overall I find the theme of generational divide pretty interesting, even if this book’s approach to it isn’t very deep or subtle in any way. 

Gives me another reason not to move to Missouri... Mf have a clown mascot for corn syrup. Someone needs to look into that state to see what’s going on. 
dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

The writing in this book is not strong but that does not matter because when clown start killing things turn up a notch. The twists are predictable and not compelling (except for the last one if ya know ya know). All in all it’s a mediocre book that provided enough entertainment to keep me interested at the end of the day horror doesn’t have to be great to keep things interesting.
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DID NOT FINISH: 9%

More cliché than I was expecting. 
dark tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Loved the unhinged gory bits and how realistic the MAGA personality fit the story, but the movie capitalizing on the camp slasher humor was extra fun. 3.5
adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
dark mysterious tense
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

After seeing the movie, and finding out it was a book as well, I wanted to read this. I thought this was better than the movie for sure! There were some slight differences and it worked well in my opinion. I do think that the plot went very fast, but overall a good read!