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Tastes Like Candy

Tastes Like Candy, Book 1

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Tastes Like Candy

By: Jessica Lacy
Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo, Melody Muzljakovich
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"It does not go light on the gore!"—Stephen Graham Jones, NYT Bestselling Author of My Heart is a Chainsaw, I Was a Teenage Slasher, and Don't Fear the Reaper

A senior year goodbye morphs into carnival carnage …

Everyone at Pritchett High wants an invitation to the Senior Scavenge, and this year, Violet Warren and her friends are the lucky ones. Eight girls will break into the Poison Apple Carnival after hours for a scavenger hunt, a school tradition to welcome the best and brightest into their senior year.

But warm welcomes turn into gory goodbyes as those hunting become the hunted. One by one, Violet's friends are viciously murdered by a mysterious masked figure running loose through the carnival grounds.

Can Violet survive this roller coaster ride from hell and unmask the killer in time?

Or will her head end up on a cotton candy pike?

Heathers meets Fear Street in this sickly-sweet, hilariously over the top slasher novel with a killer unmasking you won't see coming.

For fans of:

  • Adam Cesare's Clown in a Cornfield
  • Unhinged masked killers
  • Old school horror movies
  • Fierce final girls
  • Gruesome rising body counts
  • Outrageous kills
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The characters are the most unlikable and uninteresting I’ve ever read/watched/listened to. I wanted them all to die. Maybe that was the point but putting in back stories whilst dragging out the plot with these kinds of characters is just a slog. The narrator gives all these girls distinct voices so I’ll give credit for that but they all sound so insufferable that there simply isn’t a person I’m routing for. I just want the killer to get all of them. Especially James and Blythe. Both are so irritating to listen to. I don’t know why authors who pen slasher stories insist on trying to “elevate” them with unnecessary backstory. Fans of slashers. And I mean actual fans, not pretentious booktockers, just want a good slasher which is fast paced and tight with decent characters and a good final girl, or dude. Not filled with bloat and a cast of all horrible protagonists. I have the same issue with My Heart is a chainsaw. Which is better than this I’ll admit but that is yet another booktock era novel that is vastly overhyped with no good characters and takes way too long to get going. If I want a massive build up and character development (which is actually well done) I’ll read Stephen king. If I want good slasher stories I’ll go to Kill River or anything by Alan Shivers.

Slow, unlikable characters, SLOW!!!

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