Frendo Lives

Clown in a Cornfield, Book 2

De: Adam Cesare

Narrado por: Jesse Vilinsky

It’s an all-new horror classic about what happens when the truth is the last thing we want to believe, from Bram Stoker Award–winner and master of thrills and chills, horror legend Adam Cesare.

After barely making it out of the Kettle Springs cornfields alive, Quinn’s first year away at college should be safe and easy. All she wants is to be normal again.

But instead, Quinn finds that her past won’t leave her alone when she becomes the focus of online conspiracy theories that claim the Kettle Springs Massacre never happened. It’s a deranged but relentless fantasy, and there’s nothing Quinn can do to get people to hear the truth—not even on her own campus or in her own dorm room.

So when a murderous clown attacks Quinn at a frat party while another goes after her father in Kettle Springs at the same time, Quinn realizes that the facts alone are never going to save her. Her only option is to go back into the cornfields, back where the nightmare began, to set the record straight the only way she knows how. Because when the truth gets lost in the lies, that’s when people start to die.

Clown in a Cornfield was 2020’s Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives is perfectly set to attract old and new fans to the series.

©2022 Adam Cesare (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers

Frendo Lives and it is GLORIOUS!!!

Adam Cesare suppressed the first one with this sequel!! 😩🙌🏿 An AMAZING author. Fantastic with storytelling and the pace of his novels are ON POINT! This sequel was TERRIFYING and the body count....I honestly couldn't keep track lol It had everything I wanted in a horror novel. Love the narrator of these novels. Jesse is PHENOMENAL! I love that he includes LGBTQIA+ characters in this book series. As a Black, gay man who loves the horror genre, I feel seen!! Thank you!! Thank you!!! Looking forward to his next novel. 😍👍🏿👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Cesare's done it again!

I didn't think you could put more clown in that cornfield but Adam found a way!

great follow up

great follow up. doesn't fall short the way a lot of slasher titles do. looking forward to the third

A superior sequel

Clown in a Cornfield 2 has the advantage of the reader knowing what it is. My biggest issue with the first book is that I went in expecting a cheesy 80's style slasher but instead got something more akin to The Purge, a mayhem infused bloodbath with heavy political themes. It sort of marred my opinion of the book a bit, Frendo Lives does not have that problem. I knew exactly what the book would be when I picked it up and it let me sit back and fully enjoy the story. I wasn't distracted thinking to myself "oh so this is THAT kind of book" and it was all the better for it. I plan on revisiting the first book eventually to see if my opinion of it changes now that I know what it is.
Overall I'd recommend Frendo Lives to anyone that enjoyed the first book.

Scary and Topical

I came of age in the '80s, at the dawn of the now ubiquitous horror franchise. I went to them all: Friday the 13th, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Nightmare on Elm Street, etc. My decades as a horror fan have given me franchise fatigue. That sense of fatigue with sequel after sequel of usually dubious quality had me very skeptical about this follow up to the first Clown in the Cornfield. I liked the first one enough to give the second one a shot, but I didn't have high expectations. This was a complete delight. I loved it--even more than the first one. I found the story scary and topical, and the reader was fantastic. I know the target audience for this is young adult, but I'd recommend this one to all horror fans, regardless of age. If you find addlebrained conspiracy theorist "activists" as terrifying as I do, this book is for you. (If, on the other hand, you are an addlebrained conspiracy theorist, I'd steer clear of this one, as it will only trigger you.)

The sequel was even better than the first! 

This title was even better than the first! Both audiobooks kept my attention throughout the entire story, and never a boring moment! 

Of Course Friendo Lives

Adam Cesare took everything that worked for the first “Clown in a Cornfield” and dialed it up to 11. I don’t usually get too scared with horror books but this was an anxiety-ridden thrill ride that took all the things that I find truly scary in this world and gave them the stage. There’s nothing scarier to me than crazy conspiracy theory people from the internet, and when you throw a clown mask onto that, it opens the door for some pretty scary shit. Quinn is STILL a baddie, and I would happily let her take the final girl reigns any day.

i don’t normally write reviews

loved it! didn’t see how a sequel was going to be that interesting so i wasn’t in much of a rush to listen, a nice surprise, loved the Jeri (spelling?) character, narration was great.

Hard to follow the original

This book had it moments, but not enough. I got where Adam Cesare was attempting to go with it. However, he left out the most important ingredient that made the first Clown in a Cornfield so successful. Terror and helplessness. This one just wasn't scary. It wasn't even creepy.

With that being said it did touch on some important real world topics, namely the ease with which "alternative facts" can spread due to the internet and how the gullible can be radicalized and in some cases galvanized into taking action without any rational basis. And given relatively current headlines I suppose you can say that THAT is truly terrifying in the most literal sense...

Excellent Sequel

This was a great sequel to Clown in A Cornfield. It was crazy & thoroughly enjoyable. I wasn't ready for it to end but the ending was awesome!