Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare

17 reviews

wganas4's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Body horror, Murder, and Police brutality

Moderate: Grief, Kidnapping, Cursing, Medical trauma, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Addiction, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Cancer, Suicide, Bullying, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, and Car accident

dblue236's review

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

 The title and cover tell you pretty much everything you need to know about this book. It's part teen slasher, part satire, all gore, and I honestly kind of loved it despite itself. It reminded me of the movies I loved as a teen, and the "reveal" toward the end that made it feel more like satire added to the fun, rather than detracting from it. This definitely didn't move any mountains, but that wasn't the intent and sometimes that's okay. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Blood, Death, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Suicide, and Drug abuse

Minor: Confinement, Cursing, Alcohol, and Vomit

corporealmystic's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Listen, if you are afraid of clowns, this definitely isn't for you.

Frendo is Kettle Springs mascot. His face is on the dilapidated factory outside Quinn's new bedroom. It's not creepy at all, right?

Quinn and her father moved to Kettle Springs for a new start after a very publicized death of her mother. Glenn believed that him and his daughter needed the change, but he didn't realize that the townspeople also wanted a change as well.

The characters are amazingly written and will keep you entertained throughout the book. There are a few twists and turns that you won't see coming in the dynamics of the group that we follow throughout the story.

The atmosphere is small town creepy, and it totally works. The writing style sucks you in and makes you think about being in these situations yourself and how you would react.

Overall, it is a great read! I suggest it for anyone who is a fan of horror and wants some entertainment. I will be picking up the second in the series as soon as possible.

"Make Kettle Springs Great Again!"

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Gore, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Blood, Bullying, Death, Medical content, Body horror, Child death, Medical trauma, and Violence

ilaxaria's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Blood, Police brutality, Violence, Body horror, and Child death

Moderate: Drug abuse and Addiction

Minor: Bullying, Suicide, Medical content, and Racism

jackieyvette's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I've been on a little horror binge all month and came across this title on a TikTok video comparing it to slasher movies and I got to say this one is sitting pretty up there with the best of them. It was fast and fun and everything you need a high school slasher. The characters are believable and relatable and are people you knew in high school, too. I don't know too much about small town life, but I gotta say this one sounds a lot like what I know it to be like; battle of the generations. 
Cole and Quinn are great leads and the way their stories moved was great to read, even back ground characters were very compelling and it was sad to see some of them die

especially Tucker and Janet

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I heard it's getting made into a show/movie and I can't wait.


Crying score: nah.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, Vomit, Stalking, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Murder, Blood, Child death, Death, Suicide, and Torture

Moderate: Drug abuse

baileyraebooks's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

the twists kept coming and i loved every one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, and Body horror

Moderate: Bullying, Addiction, and Suicide

bookishgoob's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Torture, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Abandonment, Bullying, Car accident, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, and Mental illness

mangocorpses's review

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Drug use, Gun violence, Police brutality, Addiction, Alcohol, Drug abuse, and Medical content

Minor: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

mblanke's review

dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Drug use, Death of parent, Child death, Blood, Suicide, Police brutality, Medical content, Drug abuse, Death, and Alcohol

mapscitiesandsongs's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I am bit conflicted. On one hand it was extremely entertaining and I couldn't put the book down. On the other hand there were a lot of things I disliked. First of all, I didn't know it was a slasher book and had completely different expectations. But that's on me. The characters were a bit flat for my taste but I don't think you can expect to have characters with a lot of depth in this kind of book. But still, a lot of plot points didn't really work for me because the characters were so flat and there was zero explanation to their actions. During the whole book I had literally no idea who Cole was as a person and how his life has been up to that point.

Like yeah, his mother died and then his sister too. But what else? And his father was no different. The reasoning behind his need to kill his son is just so freaking stupid. He mentioned that he lost his son even before the death of his daughter, but what exactly happened? Was it because of the Youtube stuff or was is the generational thing?

Can't really say anything about Quinn. She felt like a side character and I didn't care what happened to her to be honest. The romance was just weird.

I wasn't on board with these romantic feelings or whatever between Quinn and Cole and then the author pulled a 180 and introduces a romance between Cole and Rust out of nowhere. I didn't see it coming at all and it just felt so forced.

My biggest problem were the villains and the whole reasoning behind the whole thing. It was just ridiculous and too forced/political. It felt like an agenda being pushed down my throat. I actually had to snort when I found out why the killings happened. It's laughable and flimsy at best. The villains were predictable, dumb and felt cartoonish. The ending made everything even worse though.

Saying 'Even if they killed everyone, they would have been caught regardless' just undid the entire thing. It was all pointless.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Blood, Death, Gore, Child death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Death of parent, Police brutality, and Suicide

Minor: Cursing, Misogyny, and Vomit