Funhouse
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A high schooler suspects that a tragic roller coaster crash wasn’t an accident If it weren’t for the Boardwalk, the small town of Santa Luisa might disappear altogether. The amusement park employs half the town’s workers, pulls in tourists, and gives teenagers like Tess Landers someplace to hang out on the weekends. Tess is eating a hot dog when the Boardwalk’s roller coaster—the Devil’s Elbow—jumps the track, hangs for a moment in the air, and then plummets to the ground. One of Tess’s classmates is dead on impact, two are forever maimed, and over twenty others are taken to the hospital. It’s the worst tragedy Santa Luisa has ever seen, but it’s only the beginning. As people rush to help, Tess spies a black-suited figure running away from the crowd. The crash was no accident. Five more teens will suffer before the killer is through, and Tess may be about to put herself on the list of victims. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Diane Hoh including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
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More like 4 and a half stars. Funhouse is sort of what I remember about Point Horror- off the wall, teen angst, and scary “accidents”. Tess is the only one in tune with the idea that someone is trying to pick off her friends, one by one, and that she is probably next. Of course, no one believes her because she is a “hysterical female” but mad props need to be given to Tess as she, multiple times in this book, stands up for herself against gaslighting and patronizing (mostly from her ex-boyfriend, who shows up stalker-style at the exact moment after she is done facing an attack alone). I mean, this is a kid who is smart enough to choose to live with her step-mother and get the hell out of her domineering father's house.
The cat part got me. Eh.
My money was on a different character as the killer, and I usually prefer some sort of supernatural element to my horror, but I plowed through Funhouse in a couple of hours and never got bored with it or felt like it stalled out.
I actually own this one and love the creepy cover and the hot pink, thriller font.
I also loved that she was jamming out to George Michael on her Walkman while searching the house for her old yearbooks.
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