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Clown in a Cornfield
by Adam Cesare
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This is my first entry of my “Halloween Reads” for this year.
I want to start of by saying, this book comes across as very “woke” (and this is coming from someone who identifies as left on the political spectrum), and while I don’t think it’s necessarily bad to have certain political ideologies in your stories, I find that as a motivator for the plot, it’s pretty flimsy.
The antagonists are evil for evil’s sake it seems. A bunch of southern small town folk so vehemently against progress that they have to “cull the field.” I don’t know if I can buy that almost every adult in town is a raging “psychopath,” especially Cole’s own dad.
I’m just not sure how likely it is that a group of adults would be swayed to murder a whole bunch of children. Especially when out of the whole group of those murdered, only five of those kids, (Cole, Ronnie, Janet, Matt and Tucker) six if you include Quinn, were deemed as “bad.” Seems like a huge loss of innocent life for only a small crowd bad apples.
The teen melodrama got to me a little bit I can’t lie. With the crushes and jealously, I found myself rolling my eyes a quite a bit. Although it wasn’t distracting enough for me to DNF.
The plot was fairly predictable after a certain point which I didn’t mind.
I WISH JANET HAD LIVED! Besides my grievances with the plot, this was probably the thing I’m saddened by the most. She grew on me as the story went on.
Despite its flaws, I really enjoyed this book and hope I’ll enjoy the latest editions.
I want to start of by saying, this book comes across as very “woke” (and this is coming from someone who identifies as left on the political spectrum), and while I don’t think it’s necessarily bad to have certain political ideologies in your stories, I find that as a motivator for the plot, it’s pretty flimsy.
I’m just not sure how likely it is that a group of adults would be swayed to murder a whole bunch of children. Especially when out of the whole group of those murdered, only five of those kids, (Cole, Ronnie, Janet, Matt and Tucker) six if you include Quinn, were deemed as “bad.” Seems like a huge loss of innocent life for only a small crowd bad apples.
The teen melodrama got to me a little bit I can’t lie. With the crushes and jealously, I found myself rolling my eyes a quite a bit. Although it wasn’t distracting enough for me to DNF.
The plot was fairly predictable after a certain point which I didn’t mind.
I WISH JANET HAD LIVED! Besides my grievances with the plot, this was probably the thing I’m saddened by the most. She grew on me as the story went on.
Despite its flaws, I really enjoyed this book and hope I’ll enjoy the latest editions.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Gun violence
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide
Minor: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Death of parent, Alcohol