Fear Ground by Jennifer Killick

The Club Loser gang are back in Jennifer Killick’s funniest, scariest book yet. She truly is the master of the comedy-horror genre for readers in that crucial primary to secondary school transition.

I laughed – I shuddered – I couldn’t put it down. Then I passed it on to my 12-year-old son (who’d been hovering nearby the entire time I was reading) and he devoured the story in two days. I could hear laughs, gasps, and “Ugh, that’s disgusting!” coming from his room. Fear Ground is brilliant for children and adults. I loved the ’80s movie references and the awkwardness of Mr Canton while it’s also fantastically gross and creepy in a way only pre-teens can truly appreciate.

In this edge-of-your-seat adventure, Angelo, Naira, Gus, Hallie, Collette and the rest of their classmates are obsessed with Flinch, a new game for their phones. Whenever the “Pop Goes the Weasel” song sounds, players have to run around trying to make each other flinch by scaring them until the final line of the song plays and the game ends. An unpredictable chain of events causes the game to take a dark turn. Suddenly, there’s no way out and nothing is as it seems.

Fear Ground is the kind of book that draws in even the most hesitant reader. It is cool, funny and absolutely one-of-a-kind.

Thank you to Farshore and NetGalley for this fantastic book!

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