A review by will_cherico
Friday the 13th Part II by Simon Hawke

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.75

I haven't read many movie adaptations, but I can't help but feel like the slasher film is an especially hard genre to transplant to page. SO many of the tropes are heavily reliant on the ability to see everything unfold on screen, and when it's moved to a book with very little change to the source material, it completely falls apart. With the first F13 book I was at the very least able to distinguish between characters. In this one that goes out the window, and about halfway through I gave up on recognizing anyone besides Ginny and Mark.The thing I enjoyed most about this otherwise completely faithful adaptation was that Jason was given something of an inner monologue. Nothing huge, but here and there we were given insight into the twisted way he saw the world through the lens of what his mother wanted. Unfortunately, the little time we get with Jason is sullied by extremely repetitive and poor word choice when describing the supposedly scary scenes (there isn't a single death in this book that doesn't describe the sensation of being murdered as a "flash" of "white hot heat").