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Cicada
Tanya Pell
published: 2024, read: 10/26/24
166 pages, genre: Horror
rating: 6.5/10, normalized: 6.111/10
-0.685σ worse than average
-0.697σ or -0.564/10 worse than average in Horror genre
A fun, campy horror story about a town that traps tourists for their cult film where they loose an (unexplained) giant cicada. Points deducted because things that are inconvenient are just ignored, but, as a result, it's a various fast read.
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| 10/26/24 | Tanya Pell | Cicada | 166 | 2024 | Horror | 6.500 | 6.111 | ||
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