Clown In A Cornfield #2

Frendo Lives

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What The Vibes Are

What It’s About

It’s an all-new horror classic about what happens when the truth is the last thing we want to believe, from Bram Stoker Award–winner and master of thrills and chills, horror legend Adam Cesare.

After barely making it out of the Kettle Springs cornfields alive, Quinn’s first year away at college should be safe and easy. All she wants is to be normal again.

But instead, Quinn finds that her past won’t leave her alone when she becomes the focus of online conspiracy theories that claim the Kettle Springs Massacre never happened. It’s a deranged but relentless fantasy, and there’s nothing Quinn can do to get people to hear the truth—not even on her own campus or in her own dorm room.

So when a murderous clown attacks Quinn at a frat party while another goes after her father in Kettle Springs at the same time, Quinn realizes that the facts alone are never going to save her. Her only option is to go back into the cornfields, back where the nightmare began, to set the record straight, the only way she knows how. Because when the truth gets lost in the lies, that’s when people start to die.

Clown in a Cornfield was 2020’s Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives is perfectly set to attract old and new fans to the series.

What I thought about it

***Possible Spoilers below

One year after the first book’s events, Quinn is now in college, trying desperately to put the past events behind her and move on. But we’re here, so her plan failed miserably.

Since the murders, the media had twisted the story and made the kids the villains behind it all. In Kettle Springs, Quinn’s father, Glenn, is now the mayor and is doing his best to rebuild the town after the murders. While out, Glenn is attacked by someone in a Frendo costume and stabbed repeatedly. Simultaneously, Quinn is also attacked on campus but makes it out. She receives a call about the attack on her dad and rushes home. Where chaos ensues.

In Kettle Springs, Duval Entertainment has bought the land where the massacre occurred and plans to exhort its history to create a haunted maze. Although the company is owned by Eli Duval, the maze is his son, Hunter’s, brainchild. As if that idea itself doesn’t write a horror film. Part of me just wishes that ONCE a character would have a fight-or-flight response, or the bare minimum… common sense.

Most of the plot is Quinn running around, dodging a plethora of Frendos as the killers just slice anyone in their way and attempt to frame Quinn. Sheriff Lee, the new Sheriff, is murdered in her squad car while Quinn is in the backseat. The killers toss Quinn the knife and then record her exiting the vehicle with the knife in hand, just to upload it online and change the narrative.

Meanwhile, Eli Duval is strangled from behind with a metal wire in his car as he is heading to the maze grounds.

We learn that Cole’s dad is behind everything again. All of this is because he is still pissed at his son. Incites an online riot and “army” to attack the survivors of the massacre in hopes of his son becoming a victim. At least, he’s dedicated to something… Even if that something is killing his child…

If you haven’t guessed, he gets away… again…

The story ends with Quinn hunting down all the townspeople involved in the original massacre and punishing them accordingly.

Conclusion

All in all, I enjoyed these books. It’s something you read as a palette cleanser. The plot isn’t all that dense, and the characters aren’t horribly in-depth; enough to give some background, but not enough to get attached. Was the perfect slasher, I needed! Excited to read the third one when it releases this year!

♡ G&P