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Clown in a Cornfield

By: Adam Cesare
Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
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Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

In Adam Cesare’s terrifying young adult debut, Quinn Maybrook finds herself caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress—that just may cost her life.

Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don’t know is that 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.

YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults Nominee

  • Perfect for Halloween Reading
  • For teens who love dark and scary stories

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I had serious FOMO with this, so I needed to finish it asap!

I have it in paperback but chose to download it from audible instead…I kinda wish I’d of stuck to reading rather than listening. The narrator made the females sound whiney & spoilt through out the full book which was a bit off putting 🫣 however…

It was a good book! I did enjoy the plot of it, the twists, the fact of who’s behind the clowns ect and considering it’s meant to be for YA readers there was quite a lot of gore, but I didn’t rate it as highly as I thought I would! A lot of the characters are so unlikeable, I think I only actually liked one character until the end 😬

This is MY opinion only, what I don’t like others do. I am looking forward to the movie coming out though! I can imagine it will be amazing!! Overall I’d give it 3⭐️

Terrible narration

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Don’t go into it expecting a mystery or whodunit, it’s very obvious what’s happening but mercifully reveals it to the characters promptly at least.

Passable cliche time

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Adam Cesare continues grow as a writer and with this book he produces his best yet! In Clown in a Cornfield Cesare takes the time to create a world that feels real and peoples it with characters you actually care about. As a life long fan of the genre I have read a LOT of stuff by many many writers and so often the people are just there for things to happen to, not here, here you feel they have lives that are happening when they are not on the page and so when things start to go wrong you feel for these characters you have gotten to know and in some cases, care about. I read this just after reading the master's latest "If It Bleeds" and I'm sure Adam Cesare will be slightly chuffed that I enjoyed his latest outing much more! I look forward to see where he takes us next!

Great story well told

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I am not the target audience but if I had listened to this as a kid I would have loved it so am basing my review on that :)

the story and dramatisation would have had me head over heals with this in my teens - reminded me of how I remember point horror but I think this is a more grown up story than that (they were what I read as a teen back in the 90s!)

great ya thriller

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Such a fun campy horror book! But the narrator was not my favorite. Would read again tho

such a fun campy horror book!

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