Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives by Adam Cesare
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Scare Factor: 💀💀💀| Plot: 📕📕📕📕| Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Length: 10:09:00 | Genre: YA Horror | POV: Third



🕊️ ➞ Tropes:

🕵🏻Whodunit🕵🏻
❓👤Red Herring👤❓
🚫Trust No One 🚫
🩸Gruesome 🩸
🔪🩸Slasher 🩸🔪


✴✴✴ TW: Murder ✴✴✴



🕊️ ➞ Plot Breakdown & Commentary:

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 doing his best to rebuild the town after the murders. While out, Glenn is attacked by someone in a Frendo costume and stabbed repeatedly. Simantlously, 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 the massacre occurred on 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 flight or fight 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 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 k!lling 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.



🕊️ ➞ Closing Thoughts:

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!


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