Title: You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight
Author: Kalynn Bayron
Genre: YA, horror, mystery
Publication date: June 2023
Published by: Bloomsbury YA
Source: Borrowed from library
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Synopsis: At Camp Mirror Lake, terror is the name of the game... but can you survive the night?
Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the “final girl” at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. The more realistic the fear, the better for business.
But the last weekend of the season, Charity's co-workers begin disappearing. And when one ends up dead, Charity's role as the final girl suddenly becomes all too real. If Charity and her girlfriend Bezi hope to survive the night, they'll need figure out what this killer is after. Is there is more to the story of Mirror Lake and its dangerous past than Charity ever suspected?
I've been playing the part of a girl who escapes a serial killer every night for months. It's not a game this time. The consequences are real, but we still have to play.
I really liked the idea of this book! They had filmed a slasher at the camp where this is set, Camp Mirror Lake, but now it’s this full experience thing where they sort of recreate the events of the movie and the main character plays the final girl. It honestly sounds hardcore.