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Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel
In Adam Cesare’s terrifying young adult debut, Quinn Maybrook finds herself caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress—that just may cost her life.
Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don’t know is that 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.
Kettle Springs is caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress. It’s a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Until Frendo, the Baypen mascot, a creepy clown in a pork-pie hat, goes homicidal and decides that the only way for Kettle Springs to grow back is to cull the rotten crop of kids who live there now.
YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults Nominee
1363 Reviews
ItsJagerBitch
Created 3 days ago
“This was… fun. The writing was at a far better level than I had expected, and I connected with the characters enough to care about what happened to them (which is, of course, of extreme importance when reading a book where they’re all being hunted by psychopath clowns). The first 30% was somewhat slow as it set the scene, but it wasn’t boring slow and it was important to get me invested. Once the killing started, the book went full bonkers and never took the foot off the peddle.
The motive was a bit… cartoonish, without giving anything away. And the identity of the killer or killers was pretty obvious from about 4 chapters in, so there wasn’t much in the way of surprises. It also didn’t manage to scare me - there was plenty of gore (and one particular scene involving a rat did manage to be a bit disturbing), but overall there just wasn’t a creepy atmosphere here.
Still, it was FUN. And that’s what I wanted out of it. And frankly, it was good enough that I’m picking up the sequel immediately so clearly it did a lot more right than it did wrong.”Milena Henríquez
Created 4 days ago
“Lo clasificaría más un libro de acción que de horror.
Jamás voy a un libro con altas expectativas y evito leer las sinopsis para sorprenderme pero para ser un libro clasificado como "horror" en inglés y tener a un payaso, definitivamente no era nada de lo que esperaba.
La lectura fue rápida y muy activa desde que comienza el climax hasta el final.
Me leería los siguientes solamente porque las portadas son muy bacanes.”Tiffany Jessie
Created 4 days ago
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About Adam Cesare
Adam Cesare is the author of the Bram Stoker Award–winning Clown in a Cornfield series, the graphic novel Dead Mall, and several other novels and novellas, including the cult hit Video Night and the YA psychothriller Influencer. An avid fan of horror cinema, you can watch him talk about movies on YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and the rest of his socials.
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