I want to start with... supremely amazing cover. This is what attracted me to the book and the fact that I have been wanted to expand more into the scary and horror genre. This is a favorite genre for my students, but I tend to focus more on mystery, suspense, and thrillers. So as I began reading I kept this in mind.. What differences are there between a book being classified as horror/scary versus mystery/suspense/thriller? I found that most of my mystery ya novels tend to have a more developed back story and more movement involved- for example, centering on a town and the people in it instead of one scary night or incident. This book focused on Fright Night, a scary corn maze type attraction. It was told from several different point of views. I wasn't sure any of them were fully developed until the end. I found this book hard to focus on to finish. It felt a bit predictable - like I knew someone would die from the first introduction, and it would most likely happen during Fright Night hence the title. But everything that led up to those actual events were expected. I don't know if my trouble was that I am used to the mystery genre more which tends to have more twists and turns or if I didn't get invested enough in the characters. I think that I might buy this book for my library as horror is a top genre- but I am not sure it would make it to the top of my list of recommendations. Let me know what you think of Fright Night by Maren Stoffels when it comes out in the US in Sept. 2020. It was previously published in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 2018.
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