
The final girl needs to become friends with her prankster fellow campers in order for her to have a valid reason to abandon camp and follow a bunch of kids she just met out onto a dark lake at night. While the story does take a little time to pick up, I can appreciate the amount of setup. Kill River delivers everything you expect from 80s slasher horror.

When I saw the cover for Kill River, and then learned it was written rather recently, I immediately expected an homage to those comfortably formulaic and over the top books of my childhood. There were definitely rules and a formula for the genre, and out of all those films and rack after rack of gaudy paperbacks, an entire generation of horror tropes was born. OK, so I'm older than dirt, which means I grew up in the 80s, which also means that I was raised on a healthy diet of slasher movies and horror novels. A night of skating and fun turns into a night of violence and bloody mayhem.This book was sent to me by the author in exchange for an honest review.

Opening day is just around the corner, and Cyndi is starting to wonder if her water park nightmare is really over, or if it's just beginning.ĭisco Deathtrap- Disco Deathtrap is an 80's slasher novel about a masked killer crashing an All Night New Year's Eve Lock-In party at a roller disco during a huge blizzard. Worst of all, there's a new water park opening up in town, and it looks eerily similar to the one from last year. Wherever she goes, she keeps thinking she sees the killer from last summer watching her from the shadows. Her nightmares about the water park and her dead friends are getting worse. She has every reason to be happy and forget about the past. Cyndi has a boyfriend, a new group of friends, and a part-time summer job.

Now it's 1984, and summertime has come around again. One full year since she learned how to be strong, how to be a survivor. Kill River 2 - It's been a year since Cyndi went into the empty water park with her friends and almost got killed by a masked maniac. It's a wild water park ride filled with blood, gore, and 80's nostalgia.

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