Don't Fear the Reaper

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.

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...

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