Bria Lou Reviews

  After facing Frendo for the second time, Quinn has had enough of being hunted. So she decides to take matters into her own hands to finally take down the Frendo followers once and for all. I was looking forward to this book so much! Not only were the first two 5 stars, but the second book in particular was so great! So I was really looking forward to seeing how the series continued. While I liked this book, unfortunately it wasn't as good as the first two. But it started really well. Cesare tends to write really great prologues, and this one is no exception. It set up the story really well, built the right amount of tension and gave us a taste of things to come. The tension is another thing that Cesare excels at. It really takes the story from thriller to horror and keeps you completely engaged. This one removed a lot of the characters we loved from the first two books, and I'm always wary about character changes. For the most part the new characters were great, but there wer...

After moving to the small town of Kettle Springs, Quinn (Katie Douglas) and her father Glenn (Aaron Abrams) find themselves in a community fractured by age and long-held grudges. But when the town's mascot, an insidious clown, begins to wreak havoc through the cornfields, the town's inhabitants have to work together to survive the night. This was probably my most highly anticipated film of the year. The book was the best thing I read last year, the second book is one of the best things I've read this year and I'm so so invested in these characters and this world. So when I found out after reading the first book that there would be a movie adaptation, I couldn't even put into words how excited I was. And I think it's partly because of that excitement that I ended up being really disappointed. But only partly, because I also have genuine criticisms of the film that don't come from my love of the book. But if we start from my love of the book, I'm completel...

A year after the Kettle Springs massacre, Quinn has left the small town to go to college, somewhere where nightmares of clowns don't plague her. But when she is attacked by a familiar clown, while her dad is attacked by another clown in Kettle Springs, she realises that her nightmare isn't over yet. The first Clown in a Cornfield book was my favourite book of last year. I reviewed it HERE , and even though I gave it 4/5 stars, I reflected on it throughout the year and it was probably a 5 star. Either way I absolutely loved it, so much that I bought the two sequels this year. And as I expected, I absolutely loved the second book! For a start, I loved being back with these characters. After a couple of chapters of being in their heads it's like we never left them. I sometimes say that I don't love multiple points of view in books, but these books are the exception - I loved it in the first one and I loved it in this one. Though hearing from some of the new characters real...

  Kettle Springs is a town that is divided, adults on one side, kids on the other. When Quinn moves there, and the town's clown mascot Frendo goes on a homicidal rampage, she and her friends have to find a way to save themselves before it's too late. After reading a great book with horror elements last year, I really wanted to get more into horror books as it's a genre that I haven't really explored in this medium. So I bought three horror books to read this year and this was the first. I absolutely loved this book! The prologue, while a bit too long for my liking, was enjoyable and set the scene well. Though having said that, I don't think it was particularly relevant to the main story, and probably could have been cut out. I loved the narrative voice, it made the story really enjoyable and easy to read. Although, it did feel like the characters were being kept at arm's length from the reader. I would have liked to get to know them better and more quickly. The ...