Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Putnam for access to an early release copy

One tweet later and Willow is officially cancelled. From friends and fiancés, she is abandoned and her popular tv show canceled. So she’s on her last hope- an adult summer camp that takes you away from your technology and promises you a new day. Where the horror part comes in, is spooky ghost stories around the campfire in the form of knock-knock Nancy

 

A commentary on cancel culture, our female protoganist feels flat and male written. I mean, was anyone really wanting the Courtney Cox haircut and bangs from Scream 3? I hope that line gets edited out because I don’t want to keep picturing the main character with the Courtney Cox bangs. Before picking up this book, I would recommend being someone who is on social media and follows the idea of cancel culture, that is 100% the target market. 

I like the idea of this, although I wasn’t all in on the social media and cancel culture execution. I think I would have liked it a little bit more to keep it simple. About the first 70% of the book almost did exactly the opposite of what I wanted it to do; I wanted a throwback to horror at a camp, nostalgic and ghost stories around the fire. Instead, the development felt more focused on the social media life and cancel culture. Including an unnecessary tutorial on what cancel culture is. If only the story and development had focused more on the jump scares and slow builds, I think it would have been more successful on the horror side. 

Once the horror takes over in the final act, it’s a lot of fun. The back third of this book really saved it for me and I couldn’t put the ending down.