We could have used a lot more foreshadowing and one or two more tales. But the campfire stories weren’t anything special, and by the time they start showing up in real life, people were already dying. Or did he get his throat slashed? It all kind of ran together. I got slasher movie overload: wait, I thought he was already dead. Other than that, it was a bunch of bickering family members off in the woods.Īnd then the gore fest starts. Even the ghost stories had kind of a ‘golden arm’/’bloody fingers’ vibe. All the creepy stuff turned out to have perfectly logical explanations. This was a short book, and for the first half, absolutely nothing scary happened. The rest of the characters were rather stock: The enemy-turned-friend, the obnoxious uncle, the handsome, mysterious guide, the conniving businesswoman, the quiet, Korean-American aunt…they all felt like extras. When Caleb is accused of being a murderer and is being tortured by another camper, Maddie really disapproves. Even when the survivors are running for their lives, she seems more interested in asking her brother if he’d really lost his baseball scholarship. Just vague complaining and trying to flirt with Caleb. But for the POV character, I didn’t get much out of her. Maddie wonders if any of them are going to get off this mountain alive. Just a coincidence, right? But soon, things take a turn for the grim and these stories no longer seem fictitious. Little events from the stories start occurring in real life. It’s the usual fare: a bloodthirsty bear, the ubiquitous escaped mental patient, and a tribe of deranged mountain men. As with most camping trips, everyone is miserable and on edge, so hunky trail guide Caleb suggests a round of campfire stories. Five years later, Maddie is camping on an isolated mountain with her best friend Chelsea, her brother, her father, and various other family members and friends. When she was eleven, Maddie Davenport witnessed her mother die in a mysterious explosion. Though I am uncomfortably reminded of the movie poster for the 1976 horror classic God Told Me To (Kill): This is what covers of horror books should look like.
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