I received an audiobook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. It has not affected my opinions.
Genre: Horror
Age Range: MG
Star Rating: 5 stars
Series: fifth book
*SPOILER ALERT: contains SPOILERS for DREAD WOOD, FEAR GROUND, FLOCK HORROR, and DEADLY DEEP*
Blurb:
It’s Colette’s birthday and the friends are spending an evening at Neon Perch – an epic entertainment spot where they can eat pizza, play mini golf and – best of all – take part in Project Z – an epic new escape room experience. It’s going to be the best night ever!
Or is it . . . ?
Somehow, the escape room somehow seems to know each player’s greatest fears. And worst of all, there are creatures locked up with them. Creatures from their darkest nightmares . . . giant, poisonous RATS!
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Review:
FRIGHT BITE continues this brilliantly scary MG horror series with an escape room gone horribly wrong.
The book brilliantly flips the whole escape room premise into a terrifying experience. The time pressure counting down adds to the tension. Unlike a normal escape room, you know they’re really locked in and can’t simply press a button to get out. The various challenges that have to be solved are extra creepy (the glass tank one was the worst!)
I enjoyed the way the book was structured, starting with the hijacked escape room, slowly building tension with the sense that something was wrong but not. And then it all got reset into a larger escape room with the added modified creatures (and this series’ other trademark, the nursery rhyme!)
The Latchitts are back! I very much enjoyed getting to see them again as they are such good villains. They’re almost as creepy as their creations and there’s something very unsettling about two grandparents taking all out revenge on their granddaughter and her friends. Plus the reveal of their little helper!
This is the first entry I have listened to and I enjoyed Marlowe Chan-Reeves’ take on the characters. It’s funny and scary, and you get a real sense of familiarity from the way he does it (it is his fifth entry, so he knows them well.)
There is a World Book Day special short story and then one more book in the series coming out later this year. I am looking forward to them!
Read my reviews of other books by Jennifer Killick:
Dread Wood (this series):
- DREAD WOOD (#1)
- FEAR GROUND (#2)
- FLOCK HORROR (#3)
- DEADLY DEEP (#4)
- CREEPY CREATIONS (#5.5)
Crater Lake:
- CRATER LAKE (#1)
- CRATER LAKE EVOLUTION (#2)
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