You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

By: Kalynn Bayron

Narrated by: Hewot Tedla

Bloomsbury presents You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron, read by Hewot Tedla.

Instant New York Times bestseller!

At Camp Mirror Lake, terror is the name of the game . . . but can you survive the night?

This heart-pounding slasher by New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron is perfect for fans of Fear Street.

Charity 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, The 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. As they unravel the bloody history of the real Mirror Lake, Charity discovers that there may be more to the story than she ever suspected . . .©2023 Kalynn Bayron (P)2023 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Just wow!

This was my first book by this author and wow did it blow me away!!! So glad I clicked this book to read. Definitely reading another one of her books.

It was good, until it wasn’t.

I was enjoying where the story began and how it was progressing until about the last two hours and it feels like the author forgot what they were writing about and wanted to throw a bunch of “twists” and “shocking moments” that honestly made NO sense to the first half of the story. It got to the point I was struggling to even finish the rest of the book and had to increase the speed just to get to what I still was hoping was a ending that paid off.. spoiler.. it didn’t. Plus they forgot the most important rule, GAYS DON’T DIE!
I’ve loved some of the authors other books but this one.. Id suggest passing on.

I was not ready for this greatness

I'm not sure why I'm surprised that this was amazing!
Kalynn hits us with another amazing story...
I need to be fed with her books like mirror lake needs to be fed with bodies!

YASSS!!!

BABYYYY!!!

The author ATE. Not a piece of a piece of a crumb is left to be seen!

This was such an adventure! AHHH!!!

Now I'm mad that I listened so fast cause it's over😞

Great story, narration could be better!

I really liked this book. I’ve been a fan of scary movies, but they typically don’t have people like me as the protagonist. In this book, we have a queer girl of color as the MC, and I really liked that she had an established girlfriend. Their relationship wasn’t the focus of the plot, but it was sweet and appreciated. There’s always straight relationships in scary movies, and so it was nice to have a gay one for once.

I also enjoyed the tongue in cheek awareness of things they should or shouldn’t do if they were in a scary movie, recalling to the Scream films.

The mystery of it was set up well, some clues along the way helping me guess some of the reveals, but not all of it. I enjoy being surprised by a twist but also like to figure some of it out beforehand 😂

I wasn’t the biggest fan of the narration however. There were some audio quality issues when some lines were screamed, like when you’re too close to a mic and it gets that staticky noise. Some other lines were clearly recorded separately and you could tell it was copy/pasted (changes in tone & volume, and just didn’t sound like it naturally followed the paragraph before and after). The thing that really bugged me tho was when the narrator said the last line of a sentence as a question (“main office” Chapter 3, pg 45). Or like she forgot her line. It was such a weird and awkward delivery that I pulled out the ebook to check if it was written that way (it wasn’t lol). All these quirks seemed like it was an issue in the editing department rather than the voice actress’s fault though. I can imagine that it would be difficult to read everything perfectly! But could they not have her do a retake so it doesn’t sound like she lost her place in the book and then finally found it?😭