Blog Tour: Theme Parks Turn Deadly

Crushed on by Christy Jane, on August 8, 2025, in Blog Tour, Book Recommendations, Feature, New Releases / 0 Comments

Blog Tour: Theme Parks Turn Deadly

Theme parks are built to delight…cotton candy, laughter, the thrill of a roller coaster rushing through the night. But what happens when the gates close, the lights go out, and the crowds go home? Those same rides, midway games, and funhouses turn into the perfect setting for terror. Roller coasters and haunted houses might be designed for thrills, but after-hours, the park belongs to the shadows.

From Ride or Die’s middle grade chills to the escalating danger of Murder Land and the nail-biting terror of Hide, these books all play on the same irresistible fear: what happens when joy and wonder twist into darkness.

Ride or Die

by Delilah S. Dawson
Published by: Delacorte Press
on August 5, 2025
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A sleepover at an amusement park turns into a night of terror in this scary middle school read from the New York Times bestselling author of Mine and Camp Scare.

Tonight is Brie’s chance to finally be accepted by the Ems—the most popular girls at school. If she can just keep one potentially reputation-ending secret under wraps, she’ll have the best night of her life, screaming on scary rides and running the Wildwoods amusement parkwith her new friends.

But when the Ems take a game of truth or dare too far, Brie ends up alone in a creepy abandoned section of the park. There, she meets a group of cool older teens that invite her to join them. They seem friendly enough.

Little does Brie know she’s about to come face to face with a reawakened evil that wants to take her on the ride of her life...make that her death.

Theme Parks Turn Deadly

Ride or Die by Delilah S. Dawson

A sleepover at an amusement park is every kid’s dream…until it becomes a nightmare.

Brie finally has her shot to join the Ems (the most popular girls at school) during an exclusive overnight adventure at Wildwoods Amusement Park. But a game of truth or dare takes a terrifying turn, and Brie finds herself alone in a forgotten part of the park. There, she meets a group of older teens who seem fun…until she realizes something evil has awakened, and it’s ready to take her on the ride of her life. Make that her death.

Ride or Die is a perfectly creepy, page-turning read for middle grade horror fans and anyone who’s ever wondered what might lurk in the shadows of their favorite theme park after dark.

Murder Land by Carlyn Greenwald

Theme parks aren’t all fun and games. Sometimes they’re murder.

Seventeen-year-old Billie thinks she has the perfect summer: best friend by her side, a new crush, and a coveted promotion to ride operator. But on her first night running the park’s hottest new attraction, a coworker dies on her ride….and the death looks suspicious.

With a killer on the loose, Billie and her friends sneak through the darkened park, racing to solve the mystery before the night is over. But Murder Land is full of secrets, and the biggest one might be deadly.

Hide by Kiersten White

Fourteen competitors. Seven days. One abandoned amusement park.

Mack knows how to survive. All she has to do is hide for a week to win a life-changing prize. But this deadly game of hide-and-seek isn’t what it seems. As her competitors start disappearing, Mack realizes the danger is real and the park’s shadows are hiding something far more sinister than she ever imagined.