A huge thank you to the author, NetGalley, and Harper Perennial for providing this e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

A fun homage to 90s slasher movies where you think you know the ending - until it happens.

This book was a fun and quick read, and the entire time reading it felt like I was relaxing with a Goosebumps paperback while a classic babysitter slasher movie is playing in the background. In my opinion, a large portion of this book is to be enjoyed with Vibes, and Vibes only.

Told with multiple POVs and a mixed timeline, we slowly see how all the pieces on this chessboard come together for this one fateful night. This book starts off with the crescendo of the night, which occurs at midnight, and we then skip around throughout the day of all the events that happened before this. We also get glimpses of our babysitter when she was still a child, and had her own babysitter, and we can see how our main character grew up into the teenager she is today.

If you want to curl up and relax for a bit with something that feels like watching a classic slasher movie, or playing Puppet Combo’s “Babysitter Bloodbath,” then this is the book for you.