Go Hunt Me

Kelly DeVos

YA Thriller Horror

For Dracula lovers and fans of Diana Urban’s All Your Twisted Secrets, this spine-tingling thriller follows seven horror buffs as their dream trip to a remote Romanian castle turns into a nightmare when they begin to be killed one by one.

Alex Rush is ready for the trip of a lifetime.

She and her friends have made some creepily awesome films together throughout high school, so with only a few months left before they go their separate ways for college, they’re determined to make the best one yet: an epic short film that reimagines the story of Dracula, filmed on location at a remote castle in Romania.

But when they get there, it’s not quite the majestic setting they planned for. Menacing weapons line the walls, the twisted halls are easy to get lost in, and with no connection to the outside world, the group is unexpectedly off the grid. After just a few hours spent under its roof, Alex and her friends have no trouble imagining how this dark, terrifying castle inspired one of the most enduring horror novels of all time.

Only soon they no longer have to use their imaginations to understand the location’s terrifying history—just as they get the film’s first shot rolling, one of Alex’s friends disappears, and she’s nearly certain she saw a cloaked stranger lurking in the shadows. As more members of the group begin to meet an untimely demise, Alex is desperate to stop the bloodshed, even if it means facing a monster she never thought would be let loose.

-Excerpt taken from Goodreads.

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My Opinion

(3.5 / 5) Seven teenagers get the chance of a lifetime to film a movie at an old castle in Romania. The castle is rumored to be where Dracula was imagined and written.

I have to say, this book kept me entertained. I needed to find out what had happened and more importantly, how! The majority was fast paced and the premise was fabulous. 

There were a few things I didn’t like; first off the characters. Oof they were lacking. I could keep track of 3 but that left 4 that all blended together. They were not developed enough for me to remember them or care about them. Convenient for a horror novel but still, it made deaths feel hollow and unimportant. 

Secondly, I needed more umph. Ya, I’m going with that word! When a huge plot twist was happening, it didn’t feel any different than the previous pages. There wasn’t build up, then a fall then building up again. It was very even keel the entire time. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoyed this but I expected to and wanted to have my emotions wrecked. To yell at the pages when somebody died or yell at them not to go in that room. It just didn’t grab me enough. 

There were very questionable actions by some characters that I’m still trying to work through but the ending helped with that a bit. However, that ending made me more confused. I don’t see how it was possible? I’m still putting pieces together. So while I enjoyed the ride, I would’ve liked to be more entrenched with the story and the characters.  

General content summary: F words: 23, a young woman wonders why she is not intimate with her boyfriend, a father previously had cancer, blood, unexplained occurrences, creepy feeling throughout, description of a dead body (suspicious death), drowning and description of body, a head without a body, a body without a head (descriptive, blood), thoughts of intimacy, aggression with a hammer and blood, descriptions of a beating, someone falls from a large height and is impaled and dies, drowning, choking a person, many deaths. The deaths and how they died could be pretty gruesomely detailed for YA.

Thank you to Penguin Teen for the gifted copy!

The book releases June 14, 2022.

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