PUBLISHER: Scholastic, 10/1992GENRE: Young Adult Fiction/Contemporary Horror
SETTING: USA
SERIES: Point Horror
PURCHASE: link
MY GRADE: C+
FROM PUBLISHER: It started out as a game. A game of hiding and seeking. A game of hunting and weeping. And before anyone knew what was happening, someone was killed. The game was over. And the only suspects they had were each other—unless there was else out there . . . someone who was still playing the game.
MY THOUGHTS: This story is only 162 pages and there are eleven main characters- Cyndi, Lara, Dade, Wills, Georgina, Foy, Jane, Rick, Jones, Charity, Dorian, all part of the same group of friends. Needless to say, no backstory on any of them. I think they're all in high school except one guy, Dorian, older brother of Cyndi. Those two don't like each other at all that brought some realism to this story. Cyndi and Georgina have nasty personalities which is something I like in fiction. Rick has a sick sense of humor, which I like too.
The story started out average, with a group of friends dressed up for Halloween hanging out in a cemetery, then it took an unbelievable paranormal turn near the end and I got real confused. Three of them are murdered. Good thing I wasn't trying real hard to figure out who the killer was because I'd have been wrong. There was big disappointment regarding the identity of the killer. I think the whole timespan is just one day. I don't know why the author had to ruin the whole story with that nonsense. Why couldn't this have been a straight up slasher novella where we're contemplating if one of them is killing the others off or if it's an outsider?
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