Kill River is the better version of a Fear Street book (trust me, I’m working my way through all the Summer themed ones as side-reading). But, they soon find out that their particular brand of summer invincibility has an expiration date as they get lost in the woods and stumble into someone’s twisted waterpark variety of summertime fun. The kids decide to give their camp counselors and parents a big “fuck you” and run away from camp in the hopes that their parents will be forced to take them home for the summer. Stacy shepherds Cyndi out of her shell and into their too-cool-for-summer-camp hijinks, and that’s where the trouble starts.
But, Stacy seems to get Cyndi-she sticks up for her when fellow peak-80’s-named cohorts Brad and Zack give Cyndi crap for being so quiet and just listening to music all of the time. She meets Stacy-a girl who on the outside seems like a clone of all the girls who have rejected Cyndi before and someone who would never waste her time on Cyndi except to maybe terrorize her. What she thinks will be an absolute summer nightmare starts out being better than she expected. So, when pleas for a little less Sony and a little more socialization fall unheard on Cyndi’s headphone-covered ears, they decide to send her to summer camp.
Cyndi sometimes wishes she could find friends that shared her interests or at least didn’t crap all over hers, and that way, maybe then she wouldn’t be the cafeteria outcast just hanging with her Walkman.Ĭyndi’s introverted ways have of course started to worry her parents. She’s perfectly content to stay at home on the weekends making mix-tapes…well, almost. Kill River by Cameron Roubique introduces us to Cyndi-a girl way more interested in the best songs on the radio and the newest videos in heavy MTV-rotation than trying to figure out her place in the high-school hierarchy.
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