Fright Bite

FRIGHT BITE continues this brilliantly scary MG horror series with an escape room gone horribly wrong.

The book brilliantly flips the whole escape room premise into a terrifying experience. The time pressure counting down adds to the tension. Unlike a normal escape room, you know they're really locked in and can't simply press a button to get out. The various challenges that have to be solved are extra creepy (the glass tank one was the worst!)

I enjoyed the way the book was structured, starting with the hijacked escape room, slowly building tension with the sense that something was wrong but not. And then it all got reset into a larger escape room with the added modified creatures (and this series' other trademark, the nursery rhyme!)

The Latchitts are back! I very much enjoyed getting to see them again as they are such good villains. They're almost as creepy as their creations and there's something very unsettling about two grandparents taking all out revenge on their granddaughter and her friends. Plus the reveal of their little helper!

This is the first entry I have listened to and I enjoyed  Marlowe Chan-Reeves' take on the characters. It's funny and scary, and you get a real sense of familiarity from the way he does it (it is his fifth entry, so he knows them well.)

There is a World Book Day special short story and then one more book in the series coming out later this year. I am looking forward to them!