Review: Tastes Like Candy: 2 - Sugarless by Ivy Tholen - April 2024 I had been eager to read this book as I loved the first one and it gave me 90s/ early 2000s slasher horror vibes and reminded me of the teen movies I watched. The first one was great, but unfortunately Tastes Like Candy 2: Sugarless didn't quite have the same feel. It's like when you watch the first movie and it's Oh so Awesome and then you see a sequel being released and you are so excited as the first one was like the greatest ever and then when you watch the second one, you were like that was a waste of time or it could have been better. That is how I felt about Book #2. This book starts in Part #1 with Dusty who seems like she wants revenge on her so-called friends and starts looking on the internet and comes across the real story of what happened five years ago and discovers the town covered it up.  With the help of her "internet friend" Dusty starts to plan revenge and where better to than t...

Review: Tastes Like Candy - Ivy Tholen - October 2020 This book grabbed me from the cover, I am so obsessed with this candy floss skull and it does end up representing one of the deaths in the book. Tastes Like Candy is definitely what I would classify as a 90's slasher film novel - like Scream, Valentine, or even I know What You Did Last Summer. All those 90s / early 2000s scare fest films we loved as tweens/teens. The book starts with a group of friends who are about to participate in their last event as Seniors. The annual senior year scavenger hunt is made of the best students in the school. Each year students are chosen to represent the previous year's entrants. Violet and her friends are in for an amazing adventure as this year the hunt is set in a carnival. Each of the girls has been given their first clues, but as the hunt starts - the girls who are high on gummies realize they aren't alone and are now locked in a park with a slasher killer. Can the girls survive...