A review by earth_to_haley
Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

This was a good installment in the Indian Lake Trilogy and I enjoyed it. The pacing was faster than the first, which I enjoyed, and I liked the 4-year time jump, since it allowed the characters to evolve from a few years prior without completely moving on from their younger selves. This book also left some loose ends that I assume we’ll see tied up in the final book and I enjoyed the horror elements. What I didn’t like, though, is the chapter lengths - I hate long chapters and this book had a chapter that’s 50 pages, one that’s over 60 pages, and one that’s a whopping 99 pages. I hated that, especially since we jumped between POVs in the long chapters that I feel would’ve been easy to break up.  Each chapter is named after a horror movie, so I get where the length was coming from because of the events in each chapter correlating to each movie, but I still didn’t like that part at all. Otherwise, this was fun!