Review: You're Not Supposed To Die Tonight - Kalynn Bayron - June 2023
With October being the month
of Spooktober and reading mysteries and horrors, I decided my first October
read would be Kalynn Bayron's "Your'e Not Supposed to Die Tonight".
This book starts as a fun summer experience where a group of teens work at a
local Summer Camp pretending to be in a Serial Killer slasher film. It reminded
me a bit of a local attraction we have here in New Zealand called Spookers, but
that is set in an old mental institution. Charity is often the 2IC and also has
the role everyone covets which is the "final girl". I did love the
irony in this as often black people are the ones that die first in horror
movies and I loved that this one took a different perspective. It was great to
see the race reversal. The book though takes a weird twist about halfway as the
characters learn that there is an old secret society called The Owl Society and
that the Summer Camp years ago was a real camp that had six of the campers
murdered and this place especially the lake is covering multiple dead bodies.
Bodies that have been used as a supernatural sacrifice that if done right, then
your darkest and deepest desire will come true. As Charity's friends start
being killed one by one, can she survive the night and be a "final
girl" in real life? Find out in this fun YA horror read by Kaylynn Bayron
"You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight".
Amazon: https://amzn.to/48EVBtP
