I can’t say that I have any negatives for this one.
Interestingly, the author has listed the songs mentioned in the book in a neat little list so you can create your own playlist - or mixtape, if you will - to listen to while reading the book or after. I don’t really recall a lot of slasher films (or books) set in a water park, aside from 2001’s The Pool.įinally, as the book is set in the ’80s and our main girl Cyndi loved music, we do get some needle drop moments when certain delicious ’80s songs are mentioned. Roubique does not mince words and let’s us know how these characters are dispatched.ĭespite the references and the slasher genre being commonly considered formulaic, this book surprisingly keeps everything fresh, thanks to the aforementioned character development and the unique setting.
This makes it all the more painful when the kills do come as Mr. Unlike a lot of slasher films, though, the author knows how to flesh out his characters to the point that you don’t want to see anything bad happen to them. That said, they’re not intrusive or disrupt the story in any way, rather these references seamlessly mesh well with the material. There’s a ton of references in this first book that will please slasher fans like me.
Once inside, a mysterious masked maniac picks them off one by one.Ĭameron Roubique definitely knows and loves his slasher flicks. Written by Cameron Roubique and first published in 2015, Kill River is about a young teen named Cyndi and her friends who run away from their boring summer camp only to find themselves trapped in a hidden water park in the woods. Imagine my surprise upon discovering Cameron Roubique’s Kill River books! Right now, I’d like to discuss the first book in the series. I love slasher films and I love horror books, yet before the recent years, I seem to be hard pressed to find any slasher novels.
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