panKathryn Foxfield‘s debut YA novel is a horror/thriller mash-up that, for me, fails to deliver in either genre. The characters are paper thin, their secrets either too easy to guess or so inconsequential that it made me wonder why they were worried and the world building too ethereal. There‘s an interesting central idea about the power of guilt to overwhelm you, but ultimately I just didn‘t care enough about the teens or their plight.
so-soThis has one of my favourite tropes–people trying to survive in a derelict funfair. Unfortunately, none of the books or films I've read or watched yet has handled it very well. This one was okay. One of the better ones, but still not quite satisfying. Ten teenagers are lured on an abandoned island with an old carnival on it and then starting to die. So far, so good. But then- I guess I'll have to write my perfect derelict carnival novel myself. :)
Good girls die first | 
