RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksBoth welcome and brutal. This is a slasher novel, after all, and the characters returning from the first novel gain new depth while we hold our breath to see if they will live through the story ... Readers familiar with the slasher form will find additional connections and genre subversions due to Jones’s metatextual references, ranging from riffs on serial-killer vision to one-off references to long-forgotten slasher films. You don’t need to have read Jones’s previous works to enjoy Don’t Fear the Reaper, but it helps ... Not just a tour de force; it’s a chainsaw-mounted snowcat crashing through a suffocating blizzard, all heavy metal and diesel and blood, with the final girl Jade Daniels at the helm—older, refined, and more defiant than ever.
