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Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones
5.0
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense

Yowza, the bodies hit the floor, the blood sprays on the walls and the cupcakes strike. This sequel fractures the narrative into multiple POVs, not all of them entirely reliable, as a snowstorm and an escaped serial killer and Jade Daniels all close in on Proofrock for a night of murder and mayhem, and everyone complaining that this can't possibly be happening again it's not fair! Well, it isn't fair and Jones leans into and milks that unfairness for all he's worth, expertly putting beloved characters, older and wiser though they tend to be, through hideous wringers, such that even the survivors don't get away clean. Multiple narrators do the story justice. Seriously, as an audio book, it's a keeper. This is only the second in a trilogy, and the heart quails even as it yearns to see what tortures await.