Cirque Berserk | 
pickLoved the 80s nostalgia. I honestly wish there was more. I was also expecting it to be more gorey. I was expecting it to be more of a splatterpunk book but for what it was, it was actually really good.
pickI liked how tension between characters were created! And I found relatable characters and I hoped so badly them to survive. And that what makes a good horror story: you have someone to root for.
And circuses, oh circuses. I just can't find another setting I would love more in horror! Well maybe abandoded circuses and look what we got here!
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pickA very fun, fast slasher from a talented author. I hope to read more from her!
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Book 4 in the Rewind or Die series takes place in an amusement park, which is one of my favorite settings for a story. A group of friends decide to perform a ritual to make them immortal, but it comes with a twist that on one night each year they are mortal and they must sacrifice other humans.
Another great read in this series.
pickA bunch of teenagers look for something especially memorable for senior night, so they visit Cirque Berserk: an abandoned amusement park that was the scene of a mass murder back in the 1980s and has had a haunted reputation since. It's a horror novella, so ya know that can't end well.
It's an hommage to dead-teenager films of the 1980s, which are a guilty pleasure for me, and well-executed (heh). Not a fan of slasher movies? Stay away. OTOH....
pickThis ranks up there as one of my favorite horror novella ever. This novella is part of the Rewind or Die series of nostalgic horror novellas. For someone to take all the tropes of 80‘s horror and have them feel fresh instead of eye-roly was such a joy. 9 students don‘t want their senior night to end so where do they go? The abandoned amusement park where those people were murdered by those teens all those years ago. I ate this all up. Pick!!
pickWhen people talk about slasher movies being about the villains they mostly mean they like the kills - this novella is about the villains and it works great. I think this series of novellas is supposed to evoke the horror tapes of the 80s and 90s, but no cheap rental ever cared this much about the people holding the knives.
Didn't realize this took place in Florida! And it's shouted out The Mummy's Revenge, one of my favorite rides. It's all very promising on a theme park front!
