This is giving Friday the 13th meets goosebumps vibes and I am here for it!! This is a perfect summer read and a quick one also. Perfect for younger readers looking to get into some scary ghost genres.

I love young adult mystery thrillers. This one had a lot of twists and turns I didn’t see coming, and I loved the mysterious aspect.

This short camp slasher doesn't bring anything new to the genre, but it is a fun read! Offering a different setting of the UK, Welcome to Camp Killer follows a group of camp counsellers as they prepare the camp for the incoming kids, only to find they start getting picked off one by one. Gory, entertaining, a quick read for fans of the camp slasher genre.

This book was slow for me to start but I thought that the mystery was compelling. I wanted to understand what was going on so that kept me reading. Murphy crafted an interesting mystery!

YESSSSS> GIve me all the cliche Camp Killer novels! I love them so much! Make them "campy" and cheesy and wonderful. This was awesome!

I found this a really good read. It was written in a way to keep me hooked throughout and I enjoyed it.

Summer camp is my favorite sub genre of horror, this one was great! i could see people being upset that there wasnt a ton of character development but sometimes i feel like that's being too picky with this genre and that its perfect for what it is.

Balancing summer camp fun with an eerie vibe is always a great combination. Nothing can go wrong summer camp, right? Wrong. A quaint little horror story for teens that is not too gory but more weird in its happenings. A fast paced read, and something fun to sink your teeth into!

Campy, funny, cute at parts, and keeps you on the edge of your seat! I will definitely be looking out for more like this. I couldn't put it down!

This book wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t great either. The pacing felt very sporadic and hard to follow at times and the storyline felt very predictable.

I did not realize this was a novella/short story before reading, and was so bummed that I finished so quick. I wanted more from this setting and these characters, but not because the author left anything out. I think it would make for a good full length novel.

I received an advance copy. All thoughts are my own.

This was a fun little mystery thriller and I look forward to reading more by this author in the future.

A perfectly camp ya ‘slasher’ it’s was funny and great for the younger audience! And I really enjoyed it as an adult!
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this book.

Thank you so much to NetGalley, Barrington Stoke and Cynthia Murphy for this copy of Camp Killer, a thrilling YA murder mystery! This was such a fun little story and I had it read in no time! It may have been short but it packed a punch. The action and mystery were there in perfect amounts and I really couldn't tell who was behind everything. If you're looking for a short and not so sweet mystery, this is one for you!

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Thank you, NetGalley and Barrington Stoke, for the chance to read and review Welcome to Camp Killer by Cynthia Murphey!

Welcome to Camp Killer is set at a summer camp in the UK. The estate that the camp is set on is rumored to have a ghost named Dorethea (no relation to Taylor Swift's Dorethea) who committed suicide after meeting her husband's mistress and love child (after killing the three of them).

Holly, one of the eight camp counselors, expects an outdoorsy summer looking after a bunch of kids. What she doesn't know is that something sinister is underfoot, although the bouquet of snakes thrown in Grayson's bed really helped manage her expectations for the summer!

Welcome to Camp Killer is a fun short story (128 pages) that takes its cues from slasher movies. However, keep in mind that it is written for people 13 and above, so any adult reading and reviewing it may not be the right judge. We did read a lot in the Goosebumps series by RL Stine that we came across as kids, so I'm pretty sure a 13-year-old can handle what happens in the book.

The book's length also limits what it can achieve, but that's also part and parcel of the genre. None of us expected significant character growth in Goosebumps, and you can't expect that here either. That being said, a major shortcoming was that the novel made it far too clear that the incidents were the result of human interference and not a ghost's doing; had that been unclear, this book would have been given a full five stars. The movie 'A Haunting in Venice' based on the Agatha Cristie novel 'Hallowe'en Party' is an excellent example; we know that because it is an Agatha Cristie detective story, the end will not involve a ghost, but the movie doesn't allow that to become clear.

Young adults in the woods ready for camp, ghost stories around the camp fire, a bit of dramatics thrown in mix it all together you’ve got this brilliant little read

This book surprised me with how fast paced it was. It was quite a short, and enjoyable read with plenty of twists and turns!

A total thrill-ride of a read! Welcome to Camp Killer is exactly what I'd hoped it would be: a pacey mystery with a healthy body count! If you've read a ton of teen horror or are a fan of similar films, you will enjoy discovering familiar tropes and trying to work out what is really going on. This is the best book from Barrington Stoke that I have read for a long time.

This is a nice little YA horror story. It's quite short, so it's easy to read, and I appreciate that it's dyslexia friendly. I enjoyed the spooky summer camp vibes with the typical ghost story. Towards the end there were a couple of twists that I appreciated, but other than that it's not a very unique story. Still, it was perfectly fine and I had a good time reading it.

I like Cynthia Murphy’s writing and have enjoyed her books before. Didn’t realise how short this one would be - it would have benefitting from a lot more development and plot!