Take a ride in the Tunnel of Blood. Cover your eyes. Scream your brains out. Hope you make it out alive. It's the scariest ride in the whole amusement park.
Brave Nathan isn't afraid. He knows the ride is one big fake. He laughs at danger. But now he's about to find out how the Tunnel of Blood got its name. He's about to stop laughing and start screaming.
Too late, Nate. The worst ride of your life has just begun.
I have a short list of concepts and monsters that immediately interest me in a book. Two items on that list are: Vampires and Theme Parks. So when I picked up this book I was immediately excited. And the book delivered, it absolutely exceeded my already high expectations.
The book follows Nathan, who managed to get a job at Vampire Park, working in an ice cream truck. Vampire Park is a sort of temporary carnival revolving around monsters, particularly Vampires (hence the name) and Frankensteins monster. Nathan, with a group of his classmates from school decide to try the ride: The Tunnel of Blood. This is where they meet the operator of the ride: Fang. Fang suspiciously resembles a Vampire and is a relatively ominous character.
Positives:
I anticipated Vampire Park to basically be a cheap rip-off of Horrorland from Goosebumps. However despite the similarities, Vampire Park felt like a refreshing and interesting setting for the book. I also really enjoyed the development of Nathan and Jordie’s Friendship throughout the book. It felt like a sort of unlikely friends relationship. The Tunnel of Blood was honestly terrifying and I loved every single scene in it.
Negatives:
The biggest flaw I believe this book has is the ending. The ending wasn’t bad, and I enjoyed it, however it felt sort of watered down and I felt it had some lost potential. Another small flaw with this book is that there are some scenes that are mentioned but are not directly in the book. It is a bit of a small nitpick from me, but this book is only 98 pages long so there was definitely room for the scenes that weren’t included.
This book was such a fun and honestly relatively terrifying at times. This is a notably rare book, but if you can get your hands on it I highly recommend it.