Review: Tastes Like Candy - Ivy Tholen

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Tastes Like Candy: A Slasher Novel

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 the night or will this be a case of "The Final Girl" standing drenched in the blood of her friends? Find out in this twisted ride of this year's Seniors' lives. This book is perfect for those wanting a cheesy, slasher horror feel and reminded me a lot of Survive the Night by Riley Sager or the Fear Street series by RL Stine.

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