Killer House Party by Lily Anderson (2024)
Now here's a blood dripping heap of haunted house YA fun for the spooky season......(or any other random cold, dark night.).
A worthy, clever set-up premise for a night of non-stop screaming scares.......High school senior Arden's seen her college dreams dissolved by her own parents. Not only are the two real estate agents divorcing, they've used their daughter's college fund to buy Deinhart Manor, the town's infamous, forbidding haunted house
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While her parents dream of turning the place into condos, Arden plots a way to recover her college money - swipe the keys to Deinhart Manor and charge her senior class members admission into a giant all-night haunted house party. There's only one problem facing Arden and her friends Maddie May, Remi, Hannah, and Arden's on-and-off boy-frenemy, Nathanial. The house is seriously haunted.......showers of blood, walls that come alive with grasping hands and the power to turn the hearty partygoers into zombie-fied, murdering fiends.. Oh my, what a fun night lies ahead......well at least for those who survive it, if any.
The festering, hungry evil that permeates the house then renders the doors and windows impervious to breakage, locking everyone in with the intention of adding to its growing list of dead residents. So it's up to Arden and her ragtag Scooby gang to rescue themselves and their classmates as they try to get to the heart of the house's attitude problem. This place makes 'The Shining' hotel look like the Brady Bunch house and these kids surely don't want to die hard in the Deinhart.
To what I'm sure will be the readers' delight, Arden and company manage to navigate Deinhart Manor's endless array of pop-up horrors with a non-stop barrage of snarky repartee right out of 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer'. Even when they're waist deep in ghosts, gore and other assorted grisly stuff, they're never at a loss for an lol commentary. (Probably a little too much of it and some of the gags don't land,, but with this amount of overkill on display, let's not quibble....)
Anyone tired of watching 'Halloween' for the umpeenth time might want a grab a plastic pumpkin filled with candy corn and cuddle up with this one. After all, 'tis the season to say, "Boo!",
A worthy, clever set-up premise for a night of non-stop screaming scares.......High school senior Arden's seen her college dreams dissolved by her own parents. Not only are the two real estate agents divorcing, they've used their daughter's college fund to buy Deinhart Manor, the town's infamous, forbidding haunted house
.
While her parents dream of turning the place into condos, Arden plots a way to recover her college money - swipe the keys to Deinhart Manor and charge her senior class members admission into a giant all-night haunted house party. There's only one problem facing Arden and her friends Maddie May, Remi, Hannah, and Arden's on-and-off boy-frenemy, Nathanial. The house is seriously haunted.......showers of blood, walls that come alive with grasping hands and the power to turn the hearty partygoers into zombie-fied, murdering fiends.. Oh my, what a fun night lies ahead......well at least for those who survive it, if any.
The festering, hungry evil that permeates the house then renders the doors and windows impervious to breakage, locking everyone in with the intention of adding to its growing list of dead residents. So it's up to Arden and her ragtag Scooby gang to rescue themselves and their classmates as they try to get to the heart of the house's attitude problem. This place makes 'The Shining' hotel look like the Brady Bunch house and these kids surely don't want to die hard in the Deinhart.
To what I'm sure will be the readers' delight, Arden and company manage to navigate Deinhart Manor's endless array of pop-up horrors with a non-stop barrage of snarky repartee right out of 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer'. Even when they're waist deep in ghosts, gore and other assorted grisly stuff, they're never at a loss for an lol commentary. (Probably a little too much of it and some of the gags don't land,, but with this amount of overkill on display, let's not quibble....)
Anyone tired of watching 'Halloween' for the umpeenth time might want a grab a plastic pumpkin filled with candy corn and cuddle up with this one. After all, 'tis the season to say, "Boo!",
4 stars (****) Chill out with some chills 'n laughs......
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