Campfire by Shawn Sarles

She was a promising character that was unfortunately written by a man who obviously has no idea how teen girls behave or speak or feel. It also came across as if the author has no idea how drugs and alcohol affect a person, and instead wrote scenes based off a Just Say No pamphlet from the Reagan years.Īnd poor, sweet Maddie!! I feel for the young girl. There is a serious lack of scene building throughout, making everything feel silly, cookie-cutter and one-dimensional. It’s not scary, the teen drama is ridiculous, the writing is mediocre, the dialogue was full-on cringe and every last character was so annoying I couldn’t roll my eyes hard enough. It sounds like it should be a bloody, stabby, scary good time, unfortunately, it’s a bit of a dud.

By the next evening, weird things have been happening around the campsite and Maddie realizes that the scary stories they told the night before are coming to true.