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Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don’t know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half.

On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can.

Kettle Springs is caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress. It’s a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Until Frendo, the Baypen mascot, a creepy clown in a pork-pie hat, goes homicidal and decides that the only way for Kettle Springs to grow back is to cull the rotten crop of kids who live there now.

Short and Sweet Review

Quinn and her dad just moved to Kettle Springs. But they learn fast that the town is split between the older folks who want to make Kettle Springs great again and the younger kids who just want to have fun and pull pranks. Ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory closed its doors there’s been a divide, and now the mascot of the factory a clown named Frendo seems to be out for revenge and he’s killing all the kids he can get his hands on.

Quinn is new in town and immediately she ends up hanging out with a group of kids who are known for their prank videos, which aren’t very popular with the adults in town. So bring in the killer clown on the loose who is obviously siding with the adults, he’s done with the kids and is ready to take them all out on a murder spree.

Quinn is a good character she’s from the city so being in this small town is different for her. She was smart but also a little judgmental of her new “friends.” We see a lot of Cole mainly because he’s the one who started a fire in the factory so the clown really has a bone to pick with him. I wish there was more of Rust in the book we meet him in the beginning and we don’t see much of him until the end. The other characters were okay but we don’t really get to learn about them.

There’s a lot of gruesome scenes in this book (just a warning.) I liked this book it kept me on the edge of my seat just wondering what was going to happen and who the homicidal clown was. Most of the clown in a cornfield scenario takes place in a cornfield obviously but just when you thought that the kids were safe there was just more hurled at them. I wasn’t expecting some of the twists that took place.

I enjoyed this book, it was a good thriller and there was a lot of suspense. It reminded me a lot of #MurderTrending by Gretchen McNeil. I would recommend it I think it’d be a great read especially around Halloween!