Camp death by Jim Ody

Release: August 30, 2021
Format: Ebook
Publisher: Question Mark Horror
Source: Zooloo’s Book Tours
Find it at: Goodreads, Amazon UK, Amazon US

The place had a gruesome past that nobody wanted to talk about…

Camp Deathe is now a great place to spend the summer. Ritchie soon finds a group of outsiders like himself. Teenagers who ignore the organised activities, and bunk off in the old abandoned cabins deep in the woods. The cabins that have a history.

The campfire monster stories were just imaginations to scare them. Nobody expected them to come true. Then one of the teenagers disappears in the middle of the night.

Something is watching them. It hides in the woods and hunts at night.

Ritchie will have to uncover the secrets of the camp, and understand his own problems in order to survive.

Camp Death is Book 1 in a new series by Question Mark Horror. For fans of Point Horror, Christopher Pike & Nicholas Pine.

About the Author:

Jim writes dark psychological/thrillers, Horror and YA books that have endings you won’t see coming, and favours stories packed with wit. Besides, he has written over a dozen novels and many more short-stories spanning many genres.

Jim has a very strange sense of humour and is often considered a little odd. When not writing he will be found playing the drums, watching football and eating chocolate. He lives with his long-suffering wife, three beautiful children and two indignant cats in Swindon, Wiltshire UK.

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Camp death Review:

Let me preface by saying that I used to love reading teen horror when I was growing up. Point Horror and Fear Street were my go-to books back in the 90s, and “Camp Death” made me nostalgic about my younger days.

The author did a great job in setting up the eerie atmosphere of the Camp. As soon as Ritchie enters the Camp, you get to meet the rest of the cast, and it was interesting to see how Ritchie interacted with them. The story got intense as soon as Ritchie enters the woods, referencing other famous horror movies like the Blair Witch Project. The author also creates a haunted setting where something supernatural lurks in the woods. You feel that there is always a tense moment throughout the tale where you wonder what will happen to Ritchie and his friends.

Moreover, I liked how the author mixed things up and didn’t focus only on the horror. We also see the characters participating in the rowing race or Jason’s conflicting relationship with his father. I liked Ritchie in the lead and thought the author wrote the characters nicely. He tried to get over his feelings for Kelly, and it was interesting to see how he reacts with Claire and forms a friendship with Jason. Moreover, the author ends the story in a shocking cliffhanger that I did not expect. The ending made the book even more memorable and made me look forward to reading the next book, “Ouija,” in the series.

Overall, “Camp Death” is a thrilling young adult horror novel that makes you feel like watching a classic camp horror movie, but with a twist.