Don't Fear the Reaper

by

eBook, 432 pages

English language

Published July 22, 2022 by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers.

ISBN:
9781982186616

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4 stars (2 reviews)

December 12th, 2019, Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer Dark Mill South escapes into town to complete his revenge killings, in this riveting sequel to My Heart Is a Chainsaw from New York Times bestselling author, Stephen Graham Jones.

Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted Serial Killer, Dark Mill South, seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes from his prison transfer due to a blizzard, just outside of Proofrock, Idaho.

Dark Mill South’s Reunion Tour began on December 12th, 2019, a Thursday.

Thirty-six hours and twenty bodies later, on Friday the 13th, it would be over.

3 editions

reviewed Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones

High intensity slasher, back in Proofrock with our friends

4 stars

The second book in the Indian Lake trilogy, and it definitely feels like a middle book. The first, My Heart is a Chainsaw, blew my mind and I really enjoyed this though not quite as much. It's probably unfair to compare it, to be honest. Don't Fear the Reaper gives us a terrifying new slasher, kind of a cross between Candyman and Jason Vorhees, and beloved characters Jade/Jennifer, Letha and others are back. Proofrock has a new class of seniors but hasn't really moved on from the Lake Witch Slayings aka the Independence Day Massacre. This book hurls Jade and the readers back into the path of danger and keeps things at a high intensity from there. It's bloody and brutal. I can't wait for the third book.

reviewed Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones

Don’t Fear the Reaper, by Stephen Graham Jones

4 stars

It’s been four years since the Witch Lake Slayings and Jennifer Daniels has returned to Proofrock, Idaho. Unfortunately for Jennifer and the rest of the town’s inhabitants, death isn’t done with them yet. In the opening pages of Don’t Fear the Reaper, by the masterful Stephen Graham Jones, we meet another killer who decides to make Proofrock his hunting ground. Jennifer and co-final girl, Letha Mondragon, are once again called on to slay the monster and save the town...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Horror
  • Slasher