Quinn is prepared to make it work at her new school. Her plan is to remain low key for her final year before college. Quinn’s father is the new doctor in town, and she doesn’t realise how much he needed the move away from Philadelphia.

Her first class proves interesting. A few students are heckling the teacher, who in turn gets more and more wound up, eventually blowing a fuse and ordering them to in-school suspension. Quinn gets caught up in this before she knows what happened.

She gets to know Janet, Cole, Matt and Ronnie who are super confident and always looking for an opportunity, or setting one up, for content on Cole’s YouTube channel.

Cole has only just returned to school. He was a key figure in a terrible tragedy in the town, then labelled an arsonist as well. He might not be popular with the adults but he is gazed upon by students as if he were a local rock star.

Quinn’s not sure about the invitation to a party in the cornfields one night. It’s apparently an annual event, organised by Janet and crew, and she shouldn’t miss it. She’s surprised to find she’s enjoying herself, dancing to music she hadn’t expected in a small rural town, in the middle of nowhere.

At least until the clown arrived.

Teenagers are running, screaming, …falling, and this is just the beginning of a night of pure terror.

If you’re a fan of slasher horror, this book is for you. The gory but gripping action is at least half the story, and it gradually reveals the killers and their motivation for the slaughter. Revenge.

The premise isn’t new – new girl in town, makes unlikely friends, cute guy next door – but the revenge plot is simmering already beneath the surface of this small town. Quinn walks right into the middle of it.

My heart was pumping just as Quinn’s is as she does all she can to survive. The action is full on, malevolent tension rising on every page. Just when you think she’s getting a breather …something else comes at her.

Entertaining Young Adult Horror.

Author – Adam Cesare

Age – 14+

(Strong Language, Violence)

(2023, Harper Collins, Horror, Family, Crime, Murder, Clowns, Cornfields, Small town, New girl, Final year, Popularity, YouTube, Content, Videos, Pranks, Revenge, Secret, School, Violence, Slasher, Guns, Weapons)