Clown in a Cornfield

Today's fiction post is on Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare. It is 346 pages long and is published by Harper Teen. The cover is red with a clown face design in a cornfield and building in the distance behind. The intended reader is someone who likes teen slasher horror novels. There is mild foul language, no sex, and lots of violence in this novel. The story is told from third person close moving from character to character. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the dust jacket- Quinn Maybrook just wants to make it until graduation. She might not make it to morning.
Quinn and her father moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs to find a fresh start. But 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.

Review- This is a very fun, quick read for spooky season. From the prologue all the way to the end, this novel is a very fun ride. Quinn and her father are new in town and they are still grieving the loss of their mother/wife.  They get thrown into the deep end of town craziness right away and it never stops. Quinn is a good main character, she is smart but knows when she is over her head. The side characters are interesting and the motives behind the killing is very teen horror movie but it's in a good, fun way. Cesare knows what he is writing and has fun with it. I would like to read more from him. If you like teen slasher movies or books, then you should give this novel a try. 

I give this novel a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this novel from my local library.