“Clown in a Cornfield” By Adam Cesare Review

Quinn and her father moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs to find a fresh start. But ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can.

To be fully honest here and say that I have very mixed feelings about this book because I didn’t like it nor had I hated it.

This book has all the parts which people love in horror movies, games and books. Which of course are death, murder, mental illness, physical violence and gore, but in a way all of those things didn’t work for me in this book.

The plot here was interesting at the beginning because a family of a daughter and her dad, moved into a small town a recent family tragedy in Philadelphia. But very soon it became uninteresting and boring, because the plot was stretched for far too long, before any horror have started. 

The horror here, was all over the place here, because when things started to go down hill in the beginning you didn’t know what the f**k was happening or if it was one person or multiple people.

The characters in this book were very flat in this book to be honest here. The main character and her dad were okay as characters, but the rest of the character, I really had a hard time to telling them apart because they seem like the same character to me. Because all of the character even the main character and her father didn’t have a lot personality going on. 

But the main character and her father had some kind of personality going on, but the rest of the characters just didn’t have it.

The writing style here, was probably the best thing about this book. It was very easy and simple, which made this book a quick read 

But you could tell solely from the writing style that this book was meant for young adults, because the author didn’t use any big or complicated words. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5

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