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Camp Slaughter by Sergio Gomez

18 reviews

tysbooks's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

The title gives a perfect description of what this book is about. This follows a group of young adults at a secluded cabin with a crazed killer that slaughters hikers for fun and for food and it is the perfect Fall/Halloween vibe book. I thought this was very entertaining and right up my alley in terms of what I look for in horror. It's fast paced, very graphic and some moments left me with my mouth hanging in pure disgust, but I liked it. I did like the fact that we got the perspective from the killer and seen some of the action from their eyes. I was hoping that this would have done something more original, but it felt very typical with your everyday horror, cannibal, slasher type of movie out there. I don't think this will be for everyone, but if you like the more graphic side of horror I think you would enjoy this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Cannibalism

smilingsammie's review

tense medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Murder, Blood, Kidnapping, and Violence

taylor_turton's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This was a very fast-paced read! Around the beginning I did find some typos which threw me off the story a little - being an English teacher all the time apparently. 

I really like the action in this story but I was also saying “nah I wouldn’t do that - go the other way” and did frequently call some of these characters stupid. 

Not sure if I really enjoyed the ending though…

The plot was well thought out. I didn’t really like the back story for Ignacio and sympathising with his character at all! How come he hasn’t been caught? Wouldn’t the police have combed the woods or ‘camp slaughter’ with all these missing campers? Seems sus to me 🤷‍♀️

Pumped for Sergio Gomez’s next book set to come out this year! I want to know what happens next 🙃

Also - please check out the content warnings for this book before reading! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Blood, Confinement, Death, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, and Car accident

ellornaslibrary's review against another edition

dark funny sad medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, and Body horror

Moderate: Ableism

This book was not what it was advertised to be. If you're seeking straight up slasher horror? This isn't the book for you.

It introduces supernatural/paranormal elements that really drag it down.

Also, there are ways the killer is described that make me feel deeply uncomfortable as it seems to heavily suggest the mental illness super power aspect at one point amongst other things.

nadia_opalek's review

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Murder, Misogyny, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Stalking

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Drug use

cyanide_latte's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Death, Gore, Murder, Self harm, Torture, Violence, and Child death

Moderate: Confinement, Kidnapping, and Vomit

Minor: Cannibalism, Drug use, and Alcoholism

Not one I would easily recommend, mostly due to the fact that I get the feeling other people would be very unsatisfied with the amount of things left unresolved and what little explanation we get for a lot of the content within by the end of the book. All I can say for now is that I really hope the author releases another installment in the story of this particular slasher, and I think fans of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th franchises will enjoy this one.

lgriffin1's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I felt there was extraneous character-focused exposition. I could have felt the same about two of the characters if there had been a few pages total about them and what they were doing. In the end, it didn't matter very much, and their chapters are the ones that I felt dragged the most and slowed the book down. But otherwise, I felt the story had dynamic characters whose flaws helped drive the plot of the book. Overall, I really enjoyed it and look forward to the next one in the series once it's written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Violence, Gore, and Murder

molsreads's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Gore, Violence, and Blood