I’m not usually into slasher horror and it took me a little while to get into this one, but once You’re Not Supposed To Die Tonight sunk its claws into me, I couldn’t put it down.

Charity works at a former summer camp, which is now the site of an immersive, full-contact horror game where guests pay to be scared in a reenactment of a classic horror film. But on the last weekend of the season, Charity’s coworkers start disappearing… and then one turns up dead. Suddenly, it’s not a game anymore. 

This book is a fun, contemporary, slightly paranormal take on the “teens versus murderer at summer camp” horror cliché, and defies other tropes of the genre by making the Black, queer, female lead the “final girl”... in more ways than one.

Yes, that's 11 year old me (on the left) at summer camp. Yes, the only person I took a photo with was a camp counselor (see: introverted, self-conscious preteen). No, I don't remember her name. But she was cool.