Clown in a Cornfield

“Never leave a Frendo behind”. (pg 9)
Clown is something else. It lives up to the online hype, it will literally scare the hell out of readers who swear they are no longer scared by anything anymore, AND it goes to a deeper level with a message that is on point for this moment in history. Long review short: wow.
Reading Clown is very much like watching a well-produced horror movie in your head. It's filled with visuals. The character depth is strong where it needs to be- we know each character enough to be able to tell them apart and care about them just enough to be worried for them when they are put in danger. Oh, and man are they in danger.
I'm determined to stay spoiler-free in this review, but what's going on here is so much bigger than homicidal clowns in cornfields. It's a real glimpse into generational mindsets and considered threats to a way of life.
My one bummer was that I thought, for 65 percent of the book, that Quinn and Glenn Maybrook were Black. I was all excited that this novel was diverse, but then the scene in the barn when the Black kids are identified as sitting somewhere....I continued to picture Quinn the way she had appeared in my mind.