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Camp Slaughter by Sergio Gomez

8 reviews

archaicrobin's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Every summer I like to read a slasher for Summerween season and this year o finally read Camp slaughter.  As the title suggests, this one is gorey, gruesome, and has a low survival rate for its characters.

I love summer slashers so this was a fun one that actually had characters with some background development, still minimal, but a lot for a slasher. 

I think the only thing that bothered me with this one was how fast some of the characters died. We spent the majority of the book with these characters and for them all to die with most only getting a paragraph was rough for me.  Also, a lot of the characters made very poor, very stupid decisions, or had no reactions at all making them super easy to kill. I get this is a slasher with dumb teens but at times it felt the decisions were just a little too stupid. 

Despite my one issue I still greatly enjoyed this one, and loved the supernatural aspect that was interwoven with the slasher. I’m excited to see what happens in the next book in this series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Car accident, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

brandis_busy_reading's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This one frustrated me.. I don’t think I’ll be continuing the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, and Murder

paige_reads89's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Murder

madlyhaunted's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This was good. Fast paced and an easy read. Not quite a 4 star just because I felt there was something missing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

luisaveras's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

A easy to read, fun slasher! 

Paced just like a horror movie. We start with a scare and move on to a new group about to have a bad time. The killer is built with trauma, some un-natural traits and it's mysteries. The "victims" are not developed much and make "dumb" decisions that will frustrate you, but some are kind folk I would have liked to spend more time with. I do think a bit of the supernatural talk was not needed, but did not bother. The setting is great as we are in the fresh and green woods that is suddenly very scary to move around. And of course, you got gory kills!

Ready for the sequel!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping and Cannibalism

Minor: Vomit and Car accident

booksofautumn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

taylor_turton's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This was a very fast-paced read! Around the beginning I did find some typos which threw me off the story a little - being an English teacher all the time apparently. 

I really like the action in this story but I was also saying “nah I wouldn’t do that - go the other way” and did frequently call some of these characters stupid. 

Not sure if I really enjoyed the ending though…

The plot was well thought out. I didn’t really like the back story for Ignacio and sympathising with his character at all! How come he hasn’t been caught? Wouldn’t the police have combed the woods or ‘camp slaughter’ with all these missing campers? Seems sus to me 🤷‍♀️

Pumped for Sergio Gomez’s next book set to come out this year! I want to know what happens next 🙃

Also - please check out the content warnings for this book before reading! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Car accident, and Murder

cyanide_latte's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Car accident, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Vomit, and Kidnapping

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug use, and Cannibalism

Not one I would easily recommend, mostly due to the fact that I get the feeling other people would be very unsatisfied with the amount of things left unresolved and what little explanation we get for a lot of the content within by the end of the book. All I can say for now is that I really hope the author releases another installment in the story of this particular slasher, and I think fans of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th franchises will enjoy this one.