Tastes Like Candy 2: Sugarless

by Ivy Tholen

Five years ago, a group of teenage girls entered the Poison Apple Halloween Carnival for a scavenger hunt, and all but one died at the hand of a masked killer. Now, a copycat killer has emerged and is using a familiar cotton-candy-coated playbook to pick off a new group of girls one by one.Meanwhile, the Scavenge’s lone survivor—still haunted by ghosts from the past and unable to move on from her loss—begins receiving disturbing text messages, seemingly from beyond the grave. When someone from home contacts her for help, she realizes that she must return to the carnival to warn the new girls and stop the original killer’s protégé, or they may suffer the same fate as the victims in the last Senior Scavenge.There’s just one According to the people of Belldam, the Senior Scavenge never happened.

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Fiction, Young Adult, LGBT

380 pages, Paperback

Published April 22, 2024

Reviews

[Jen (noelle w. ihli's version) · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 rounded up

-it is my personal belief that all IVY THOLEN books should be turned into movies. they would amass a cult following IMMEDIATELY. i love that each book has things to reference to another
-the first part of this book is incredible. watching dusty's quick descent into madness was so good, and the way her part ended was very clever and tbh i haven't seen it done before ever
-part 2 with violet was sort of a miss. i mean, overall i enjoyed it but there were a few things that felt a little off for me; mainly how ridiculous all of violet's friends were acting when they finally found out the truth about her past....like you're seriously going to make it about YOU??
-enjoyed violet having "james" with her, i love a coping mechanism
-the kills were brutal and fun
-the tech aspect threw me a little bit but i'm not a tech-y person at all so that's probs a me problem
-the ENDING?! i audibly gasped so loud ask my bf lmao
-is it *her*?? is it ai?? is it a personal psychotic break?? we better get a 3rd book to find out!
-my only regret is that i read the first book two years ago, and some details were forgotten, so when they referenced or flashed back, i was lost

[Sarah Elaine · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was so extremely excited about this because I loved the first one, but I honestly was disappointed.

I loved part one of this story it was so well written, and I was eating up that plot. I was so pumped into it. It was violent like the first and had me hooked. I loved Dusty's psychotic break and brutal killing of her mom, but girl, you are not a good serial killer.

Then part two happened. My biggest complaint about the first book was the random off paced flashbacks. That was all of a sudden back in the second part. It felt like a different person wrote part one and two. The plot got so far-fetched and all over the place that it was hard to keep up. The ending felt so thrown together and confusing that I'm still not sure what was real. Are they saying Blythe survived? Because what? The random relationships of James, Violet, and Blyther literally felt so forced and made no sense at all. I hated the electronic aspects as well.

I'm so sad about this. But I do still love this author. I will continue to read this series if another one as they still are mostly wildly entertaining.

[Jon Von · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 For what it’s worth, it’s better written than the first book. It’s 380 pages?! I have GOT to pay better attention to this stuff. First half is enjoyable in which a high school girl plans on killing her friend group because they didn’t include her in a group chat. She starts receiving mysterious texts from the killer from the first book (who may or may not be alive?), and they have very middle-school-level chats about how murder can be fun and plan a slasher movie kill spree. The second half involves a survivor from the first book who is now in an absurdly popular rock band, (but who’s also insecure and dorky). She’s forced to come back to her small town a confront another… killer? It’s kind of a mess, but there were times when it kept me guessing. It’s all very forced and a cringe and twee, but isn’t that teens anyway? Chop a hundred pages off and maybe you have something.

[Travis · Rating 2 out of 5]

“Taste Like Candy 2: Sugarless,” by Ivy Tholen is probably my most confused and irritating reads of the year so far. So much so that I almost gave this a 1 star. I feel like this story was all over the place and had no real direction. It is split into 2 parts, with part 1 being superior. Part 2 was so slow and annoying that it felt like I’ve been reading this book for a week when it’s only been a few days. The new main character introduced, Dusty, was very interesting and I liked her storyline. I found everyone else, even brought back characters, to be annoying. I believe the author should have taken better notes while writing this because there were a few times a character would discuss something then later, somehow they are acting like the past conversation never happened. I also think that a lot of the stuff that happens in this book is just plain unbelievable, I was rolling my eyes a good bit. The biggest reason for almost giving this a 1 star was that ending, cause wtf… made it feel like I wasted my time reading this whole thing. Overall, I sadly did not enjoy this book other than some of the first part, without the first part, this would have been a 1 star or possibly a DNF.

[Megan Jarvis · Rating 3 out of 5]

This had so many ups and downs! It definitely wasn’t consistent. There were times throughout the book where I was like I love where this is going, this is great and other times that I had no interest in what was going on but it would flip from enjoyment to boredom so quickly. It definitely wasn’t what I was expecting for a sequel and I didn’t enjoy it as much as the first but it was still (mostly) an entertaining read!

[Trista Ashley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Part 1 was actually really good, and Part 2 just confused the hell out of me.

[Maddie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don’t give one star reviews often, even if I dislike the book, but this was so poorly written.

[Hot Mess Sommelière ~ Caro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very important sequel to the very cool girl slasher Tastes Like Candy, which I LOVED

[G&P · Rating 4 out of 5]

Scare Factor: 💀💀💀| Plot: 📕📕📕📕| Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Length: 📱374 pages | Genre: YA Horror | POV: First
Dates Read: 04.27.24 - 04.30.24



✴✴✴ TW: M*rder, Verbal Ab*se by a Parent, Neglect by a Parent, Mention of Extramarital Affairs, Depiction of Gore ✴✴✴


🕊️ ➞ Tropes:

🕵🏻 Teen/Amateur Sleuth 🕵🏻
🎢🎡 Carnival/Amusement Park 🎡🎢
🔪👤 Serial Killer 👤🔪
🔪🩸Slasher 🩸🔪
🕵🏻Whodunit🕵🏻
🚫Trust No One 🚫
🩸Gruesome 🩸
👩🏻 Final Girl Vibes 👩🏻
👻No One’s Safe 👻
👤👺Hooded / Masked Killer 👺👤
👹😵‍💫Crazed Motive😵‍💫👹


🕊️ ➞ Synopsis:

Five years ago, a group of teenage girls entered the Poison Apple Halloween Carnival for a scavenger hunt, and all but one died at the hand of a masked killer. Now, a copycat killer has emerged and is using a familiar cotton-candy-coated playbook to pick off a new group of girls one by one.

Meanwhile, the Scavenge’s lone survivor—still haunted by ghosts from the past and unable to move on from her loss—begins receiving disturbing text messages, seemingly from beyond the grave. When someone from home contacts her for help, she realizes that she must return to the carnival to warn the new girls and stop the original killer’s protégé, or they may suffer the same fate as the victims in the last Senior Scavenge.

There’s just one According to the people of Belldam, the Senior Scavenge never happened.



🕊️ ➞ Progress Notes & Initial Thoughts:

**As posted to my Threads**

4% // Dusty's mother is such a raging n@rcissist it hurts. She makes feel every single one of David Rose's stages of astonishment and disgust all at once. Consecutively. In a row.

8% // Okay so my three guesses right off the bat...
1. Dusty's awful mother. She's giving Blythe vibes
2. Opal - she seems very observant and gives little digs which could lead to resentment.
3. Dusty - the MC herself! She does have a good motive... bad home life, verbally abusive and controlling mother, but so far no talk of her future. Plus it'd be a good twist, albeit rare.

16% // WHAT??? SHES ALIVE???


24% // So this is an apprentice situation?? Who's on the other side of the screen? Is this a known killer or will there be a reveal? The anticipation is killing me and I'm fighting sleep.



45% // Okay okay loving the way this is going... I think it's Riley who's the mastermind behind the texts.

72% // "for funsies"?? Oh it's def Nico

75% // Nico's gaslighting and self-absorption is disgusting. Violet tells her about the killings and this b!tch makes it about her?? "WhY dIdNt YoU tElL mE" stfu

83% // Okay.. my review is gonna have hella rants because the people of this town are so awfulllll 😫😫

84% // All these people just STOOD AROUND. I'm also concerned at the level of murderous rage the people of Belldam have…

96% // WHAT???



100% // The cliffhanger!!! I'm spiraling!!!!



🕊️ ➞ My Thoughts:

Tastes Like Candy 2: Sugarless was an amusing and intriguing read… I found the split parts incredibly interesting. I especially enjoyed the way Tholen showed Dusty’s, our MC of part 1, descent into a full-blown psychopath as well as the way an outside influence can play a role in that fall. I felt for Dusty, truly! Her mother was A W F U L !! Being a mommy influencer, her mother would post embarrassing videos to humiliate Dusty under the guise of a loving mom. Dusty hated how her mother forced her to wear matching outfits so she could post them together smiling and pretending to be the model mother-daughter duo.

I felt Dusty’s rage when she finally snapped… She banished her mom’s brains in with the woman’s tripod stand.



Honestly, I knew from the get that Dusty didn’t truly have the discipline or the strength to pull off what Blythe did in book one. She wasn’t given enough time and she wasn’t committed enough. I think it had to do with the fact that she wasn’t in a position like Blythe where she was going to lose everything, she was just angry and frustrated with the circumstances of her life. And her poor choice of friends, I mean I wasn’t even mad about them dying. They were all God-awful.



The mystery element of this book came with the question of who was texting Dusty from Blythe’s number. Violet swore she saw Blythe’s mangled body at the bottom of the Ferris wheel five years ago… So who the h3ll was it?? Yeah, I’d like to know too! Tholen kind of alluded to it in the ending when Blythe called Violet, but I hold Violet’s opinion that it’s an AI voice and not truly Blythe. I GUESS we’ll have to wait and see if Tholen graces us with a third book! Fingers crossed!

If you’ve read Tastes Like Candy 2:Sugarless, leave a comment with your thoughts!

xo,

L.B.

[Alex Boker · Rating 2 out of 5]

eh

Enjoyed the first book but I’m not so sure where it went wrong this time around. Around 40-50% I found myself just trying to push through and finish it so I could be done.

[Lara ☆☽ · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really enjoyed Tastes Like Candy when I read it last summer, so obviously I was looking forward to this book. Too bad it really did not meet my expectations.

The first part was fine and still enjoyable - all characters insufferable but well written.
But the second part?!
What in the Final Destination was that?

And please, there’s a girl getting gruesomely murdered in the middle of a mall with dozens of people watching and no one bats an eye? Not even her „friend“ who was there with her? She didn’t even scream or cry after watching her get split in half by a broken window glass?

The whole second part of it was just terrible and I can’t even explain why I bothered finishing the book.

[Libbie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was so excited to pick this up shortly after reading the first book. Unfortunately, this sequel was a bit of a disappointment.

Part one was great, took everything I loved about book 1 and threw it in with a different set of characters. Same setting, a couple gory kills, same fast paced plot but with a twist. Dusty was not a good serial killer 😂.... Then part 2 happened.

It felt like a different person wrote part 2. The plot became convoluted, the constant flashbacks unnecessary. The ending felt rushed and a little confusing.

The ending leaves it open for another sequel. Haven't decided if it's one I'd want to pick up just yet if one is released.

[Michelle Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

The ending confused me…so like is a third coming?

[Morgan Rose · Rating 3 out of 5]

This sequel is just a mess.

I came into this book thinking the first one was good. The beginning was pretty good and I liked Dusty’s POV. I like seeing someone who is slowly falling through the cracks and goes mad.

Now the bad parts…the good of this book ended as soon as Dusty and her friends arrive at the Carnival. To me, I thought it was poorly planned out and from then on, the book was too confusing it had me skimming and I didn’t want to DNF cause at this point, I was 60% through it..might as well finish it. Violet’s character was terrible in this book and it made me not care when we got her backstory after the events from the 2nd book. I especially did not care about her friends in the band cause why does this matter???? And not only that, the ending doesn’t make sense to me and it leaves me feeling more confused and have more questions than I did with the first book. I feel bad for leaving a not so good review for this Author but I think I’d like to give honest criticism for books cause i’m passionate. If there’s another book, I don’t think I’ll give it another chance. And to be quite honest, it did make me feel uneasy at some points in this book especially revisiting the dunk tank and the cotton candy scenes. It didn’t bother me so much then but having to read descriptions again, made me uncomfortable. But hey, that’s horror. I’m gonna take a break from horror books and read some fantasy 😂

[Sharron Joy Reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is five years after the events of the first book and the massacre at the Poison Apple carnival during a nighttime scavenger hunt, the town has chosen to deny any of it ever happened. Now a copycat killer is in town stalking a new group of girls using the same method.

As the survivor of the first book struggles to come to terms with her trauma she receives messages, emails and texts, and realises she has to go back to Belldam and stop history from repeating itself, she has to save the new intended victims. But the town refuses to acknowledge the past massacre or the threat of the new maniac.

Well, this is even better than the first one. A new group of girls, a town sworn to secrecy and a higher body count. The story has more twists than a corkscrew, it wild and such a riot to read. The dialogue is incredible and so real, the deaths just as bizarre and the characters caught in the madness just as brave and crazy!

Both of the books are on KU and such entertaining reads!

[Brie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Revenge is SWEET!

I could not WAIT for this book to come out. I am a sucker for books that take place on the same timeline, and Ivy Tholen’s Maul Rats, Tastes like Candy, and Tastes like Candy 2 do just that. The little tie-ins were incorporated into the story so well. Excellent visuals & aesthetic, well-thought out characters, and just the right amount of humorous gore. Just when I thought I had the whole story figured out, I was proven wrong with another plot twist. I blew through the entire book in 6 hours and loved every minute!

[Monica · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay so this one is 3.5 stars, I actually liked this one a LOT more than the first one (at first) but it started to lose me in the second half… the opposite of how I felt in book 1.

- starting off with the Dusty storyline had me HYPED like it was high energy and I was loving the violence so early on
- I do think that having all the character and setting backstory from book 1 helped book 2 to jump right into things faster
- part 2 felt like a completely different book - honestly it kind of felt like the writing was so different that it could have been two authors between part 1 and part 2
- I still don’t like Violet’s random flashbacks, they just seem poorly timed
- by about the 75% mark I was over it and read to be done. The second half of the book tried WAY too hard to be over the top
- the tech stuff was cool for a little, but then was just way too much and it felt like it lost the charm of the vibe from the first book.
- I am still SO confused by the ending??? Was this a supernatural horror now? Or is this setup for a third book? Idk but I’m not a fan
- But I loved the horror elements in their basic form, the violence and gore was excellent. The action was more consistent and I was really interested in knowing what would come next

[Sam (samantha_sahm_reads) · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75⭐️

Fun slasher.

This book just like book 1 is a very fun slasher set in a carnival. You have to read book 1 to read this book, but you can read book 1 and stop there…which is what I would recommend.

This first half of this book was great and such a page turner but the second half felt a bit underdeveloped.

[Dove Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars, but rounded up.

I liked the first half of this, but things got slow and weird in Part 2. I didn't hate it, but I was really enjoying where Part 1 was going, and I wanted more of that. So when Part 2 changed tracks, I wasn't particularly engaged. And the ending made me *headtilt* a fair bit.

[Trish · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.75 stars

Okay. A sequel to Tastes Like Candy started off okay but steadily lost my interest. A copycat killer and the final girl got pulled back in. We discover what happened after the events of the first book and get introduced to a plethora of new characters.

This instalment didn't have the same allure as the first. A lot of stuff seemed quite farfetched, and the ending left me flummoxed. If there is a third, I'll pass.

[Marissa Hood · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5⭐️

[Amanda Szinte · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am overall very confused

[Kat Ninteau · Rating 3 out of 5]

Didn’t love it like I loved her other books

2.5 rounded up for Goodreads. This was fun and gross but a little rushed and there were a few things that didn’t make sense to me.

[Shana C · Rating 4 out of 5]

The sequel to Taste Like Candy- I loved the mean girl vibes mixed into a classic slasher feel. I loved that we got a horrible serial killer, Dusty don’t quit your day job. I think it was kinda weird how the survivors got picked off…but not all of them. I’m still confused on if Blythe is Alive or haunting WiFi or what? How nolan pointed a finger at Violet and everyone just ignored him when she very well could have been the puppet master of the whole thing, if anyone was gonna snap probably would be the one who saw her bestie dissolve. The ending felt just so incomplete but I don’t know if she did that to leave room for a third book?

[Kaycee Racer · Rating 5 out of 5]

The first Tastes Like Candy is a haunting teen slasher with carnival-themed deaths, high terror, and a lone final girl emerging not quite victoriously, but broken. Enter Sugarless, a sequel that picks up five years later with an entirely new group of girls pulled into a copycat killer’s plan for revenge.

Some of the best things about this book are what drew me into the first one. The carnival setting comes alive through vivid descriptions, this time even scarier than before because of being abandoned after the previous book’s events. The suspense is terrifying and the deaths are everything you want in a teen slasher. As with the first book, I read this one in one sitting because I absolutely couldn’t put it down.

What elevates this sequel for me is Tholen’s ability to write truly vapid, mean characters that still feel whole. Everyone in part 1 (and I could argue some of our girlies in part 2) is unlikable, but I truly loved them because of how fun they were to read about. They’re no Sidney Prescott, but they’re also not the hot, topless, personality-less girls killed off with cheap deaths. They’re somewhere in between, wrapped in more nuance and layers than their predecessors. Self-absorbed and awful, but truly honest in a way that shows me Ivy Tholen knows the conventions of the genre — and knows how to flip them on their head.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t understand everything. Some details and storytelling left me utterly confused, and without answers. But, to me, those weird details were very much in line with horror sequels in general. How do Freddy and Jason keep coming back time and time again? Why does the teenage girl go outside to explore a strange knocking when there’s a killer on the loose? At the end of the day, it’s because we’re in a teen horror, and those are the rules.

[Brian · Rating 1 out of 5]

This had potential, but what an abysmal second half. Don’t get me started on how technology is used in this book (lookin’ at you, refrigerator).

[austin tyler brown · Rating 1 out of 5]

There is a specific part of this book where the author addresses the massive plot hole she made and essentially says, “just don’t think about it.” LOL.

I was honestly entertained for Part I, but Part II was so extreme, random, and poorly orchestrated that I’m not convinced this author proofread this book prior to release. And that mall scene??? What was that???

[Olivia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Somehow the writing was better in this book but overall it was worse than the first book. Literally nothing is happening, the plot makes no sense and is kinda pointless. I was excited from the synopsis but it fell really really flat

[Patrick Lynden · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just like the first entry in this slasher series; Tastes Like Candy 2: Sugarless was a real popcorn book that feels like a good palette cleanser right before I take a deep dive into reading books that are more consuming on my energy and emotions.

Picking up five years after the events of the first book, Tastes Like Candy 2 introduces us to a new batch of girls who are about to finish up their final year at high school and soon find themselves at the mercy of a copycat killer who has personal issues with them. This book reintroduces the survivor from the first book and also drags them back into the fold in a somewhat "bigger sister/mentor" role towards the younger girls.


... Possible Spoilers Below...

I'll start with the positives. The first half of this book started somewhat similarly to the first where it took a while to set up the events and characters before throwing us into the chaos. This one took a different approach in some ways though. Where Violet was a quiet, studious type of main character in the original, Dusty was much more complicated and morally grey which led to some more interesting plot strands. Her family dynamics were awful, in the correct kind of way, to read and her relationships with her friends were hanging on by various threads. Reading through Dusty's portion of this book felt like it was quick paced and had several twists and turns that I was surprised to see happen and I appreciated a risk that Ivy Tholen took with her development; it wasn't expected.

It was fun to go back to the Poison Apple Carnival as it was a campy, shlocky horror setting in the best possible way. I read the first book last year and so it's been enough time that it was fun for me to see the characters, and me as a reader, get to rediscover where some horrific events took place that I had somewhat forgotten about. Being reminded of kills from the first book was a fun little basket of Easter Eggs.

Where I think I struggled with this book was in two areas. 1) Support characters and 2) The 2nd act. The support characters were paper thin, which I GUESS is standard for the slasher genre (of which I am NO stranger to) but I felt like a few of the girls blended into each other even more so than the first book. The first batch of girls had clear stereotypes that allowed us to at least differentiate them (Claire being the sporty one, Blythe being the influencer, James being the sarcastic one etc.) whereas some of these girls blended in as they were depicted as all being gossipy and very two faced with each other. I think the only ones who felt different were probably Margo and Sage. The rest had very similar personalities.

I also felt like the second act slowed the plot down considerably. I appreciated getting to spend time in Violet's post slasher life and learning about her development was really interesting but it felt like it took a long time for anything to happen in regards to her getting back into the fold with the killer. Yes, there were texts from the killer but it felt very segregated until she was back in Beldam and mixing it up with the people who were being targeted. Her relationship with Nicole was very toxic but did lead to some nice moments of character development.

I wasn't as big a fan of the kills in this one. Some of them felt a little silly (and not in a campy way) but one in particular was VERY difficult to read and I don't mean in a good kind of way. I personally think that this one kill should have elicited a trigger warning in the front of the book as I can imagine it may be traumatic for people who have survived acts of violence in the past; I have not been a victim myself but I still found it uncomfortable to read though it was probably one of the most visceral and goriest moments in the book.

I was a little confused by the ending though I believe that Tholen's intention was to leave it up to the reader to decide what was taking place, which is fine, as I have come to my own conclusions based off of the information fed to me throughout the story. Despite having some negative aspects of the book, I did enjoy it and read it in only a handful of days. It feels like a much tighter, much more confident story than the first book and I would definately read it again in the future.

I like Tholen's books and think she has a knack for horror. I can see Tastes Like Candy being made into a slasher one day.

[hidefan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Como todo buen slasher que se precie, el asesino vuelve a las andadas en una secuela en la que más víctimas están a punto de ser cazadas tal y como les sucedió a las desdichadas protagonistas de la primera parte. Pero ¿es posible ese regreso?

Ivy Tholen nos trae una continuación de su Tastes like candy, un slasher muy entretenido en el que un asesino enmascarado perseguía a adolescentes en un parque de atracciones durante una búsqueda del tesoro y las mataba de formas creativas. En esta secuela la acción se sitúa cinco años después, y comienza con una chica llamada Dusty que está harta de su madre, una influencer de pacotilla que está obsesionada con sacarla en su Insta, y que acaba de descubrir que sus amigas tienen un chat privado que utilizan para ponerla verde. Y entonces empieza a recibir unos extraños mensajes de alguien que afirma estar de su parte...

La novela está dividida en dos partes, la primera de Dusty y la segunda de Violet, la protagonista de la primera parte. La primera parte está muy chula, ya que vemos cómo Dusty se va dejando influenciar poco a poco por la persona que le manda los mensajes. Los incidentes de cinco años atrás fueron completamente borrados de Internet y la versión oficial que se dio en su momento fue que las chicas murieron en un accidente de coche de camino a la búsqueda del tesoro, y unos de los puntos más interesantes que trata la novela es lo efímeras que son las polémicas en Internet, cómo parece que en un momento dado solo se habla de una cosa y luego a los pocos días cuando ya ha dejado de ser novedad se pasa a lo siguiente. Pero también, claro está, toca el tema de que lo que llega a Internet es imposible que desaparezca para siempre, así que estos sucesos, que por intereses económicos se borraron de la conciencia pública, terminarán por volver a hacer acto de presencia.

Seguir el punto de vista de Dusty es muy entretenido y lo encontré una manera muy buena de seguir con la trama pero dándole un giro para que no sea idéntica. Pero lamentablemente a mitad de novela la acción pasa a estar narrada por Violet y el ritmo cae en picado.

La verdad es que la segunda parte podría haber dado mucho más de sí, porque da cancha ver qué ha sido de ella estos cinco años y cómo todo se precipita para hacerla volver a ese sitio de pesadilla del que una vez escapó por los pelos. Pero la trama no está bien llevada, no genera apenas intriga, no para de morir gente y las reacciones de los personajes son básicamente apatía, como ya pasaba en la primera parte no se transmite el terror de lo que está pasando, hay una muerte en concreto que me sacó muchísimo de la lectura por la falta de reacción general, hay cosas que se quedan en el aire, la relación de Violet y Nico es muy cansina... Hay varias muertes chulas pero Tholen tira mucho por el uso de la tecnología y el ciberterrorismo y al final termina por hacerse también repetitivo. Y el final, bueno, no es algo atípico de sagas slasher, no me entusiasma cómo se cierra la novela pero es un final medianamente interesante y supongo que está hecho así para dejar la puerta abierta a más secuelas.

Es una lástima porque la primera novela, sin ser nada del otro mundo, estaba muy entretenida, pero esta llega un momento que no hay por dónde cogerla y los puntos débiles que ya se apreciaban en la primera se exacerban todavía más. Eso sí, sigo pensando que funcionaría muy bien como película.