There were actually a ton of plot twists as well that I didn’t expect whatsoever and that made it even more of a fun read. I mean the violence and the gore were so perfectly written, I could feel my adrenaline kick in and I was terrified for the characters! And holy shit is there a kill count! Cornfield? Terrifying. Once we get to the cornfield party the action starts and the pacing really picks up, I could not put it down after that! It was just a lot of campy horror fun and I was kind of pleasantly surprised by how gory and brutal it was (it’s still YA), I haven’t read anything even remotely like this and I loved every page of it. We are mostly reading about Quinn meeting the local teens that become a central part of the story later and see that the adults loath them for their pranks and wanting to modernize the town.
The first part of the story (maybe around 30%?) is actually pretty slow and I found it to be a little tedious. Quinn is then invited to a big party out in the middle of a cornfield and that’s when their town’s mascot, Frendo the clown, goes on a homicidal rampage. As she starts school and starts meeting some of the local kids she notices that all is not right in Kettle Springs especially the tension between the teenagers and adults of the town. Horror comes to small-town America in Adam Cesare’s terrifying YA debut that’s already been optioned for a feature film by Temple Hill Productions.The story centers around Quinn, who has just moved with her father to the small Midwestern town of Kettle Springs, Missouri. 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. It’s a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Kettle Springs is caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress. 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. But ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. Quinn and her father moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs to find a fresh start.
Quinn Maybrook just wants to make it until graduation. Get Out meets Fear Street in Adam Cesare’s debut YA novel: when a small town torn between tradition and progress reaches a breaking point, a group of teenagers find themselves fighting for their lives against a homicidal clown determined to save the town from its greatest threat-them.
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