My Thoughts:
I loved this book. It was a wild ride.
As a fan of the slasher genre myself, it was really cool to see Jade as the main character. Usually, a slasher only has one main character - the killer - and a final girl who is more developed than the other characters (but not by much). Jade is very much similar (and Jones recognizes this) to "Crazy Ralph" and other characters like him that warn everyone about the area but get labelled as crazy and mentally ill. Although, Jade is a teenager, not an old man. She's a bit relatable to myself - loves slasher films (and also references them a lot), a bit of an outcast, wants to die, and wishes her life was more interesting.
Jade has had a lot of awful things in her life though. Her parents are divorced and she's living with her alcoholic father, and she hates it. Despite her initial insisting that her father never touched her, Jade admits that it happened toward the end of the book. She loves history, but she missed so much class that she is only partially graduating. There's a new girl named Letha who transferred into the school because her family moved there.
There is an eerie place on the other side of the lake that has resemblance to the history of the camp in Friday the 13th.
Jade is never taken seriously, and when bodies do start dropping, she is accused of doing it since she is obsessed with horror.
The ending is pure chaos. I can't even describe what actually happened. Sure, in certain parts it makes sense, but a lot does not. When everyone out by the lake is dying, the killer isn't even known. It confuses me because originally, it was suspected to be Letha's father, but then it was revealed to be a ghost haunting the area from a local legend? It's impossible to figure out if the killer is the dad, the ghost, or both of them.
Despite the ending, I did really enjoy this book.
My Rating: 4 stars
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