This is a very fun, unique kind of choose your own adventure story, similar in style to the ones I remember reading as a kid. Except this one has greater stakes and some completely unhinged content.

As an overall story, I thought this was fun, it made sense in the way that it didn't have to make sense. Jerry and friends head to Dethfest and somewhat ignore signs that something's not right. But as the story progresses, you become more and more confident that you know what's going on. Even though there's really no closure/answers, I still feel like the story was pretty good from start to finish. The writing isn't the best, it feels very juvenile in a lot of ways, which does fit the characters pretty well. But just don't go in expecting quality literature. 

As far as "scary" goes, this is listed as horror, but I'd say only for the blood and gore involved in the death scenes. In general, there was nothing scary about the story. I would call this horror comedy because of the absolutely heinous ways you could die (my personal favorite was my first death by sword?? or maybe the back to back deaths by vampire bites?)

Some of the language could be taken as offensive at times with references to real tragedies and police, but was very brief and I don't know if this is typical for heavy metal since I do not actually listen to it.

Final Death Count: 11
Some of the deaths were just plain FUNNY I was laughing my head off at the randomness of them. Some deaths had NO connection to the choice you made, and no way of actually knowing what kind of madness you were walking into (I guess that's kind of realistic in life, right?)

But it was also hard to use any sort of street smarts, logic, or really any critical thinking to make it out alive, some of it was pure luck and guess work. And sometimes even the obvious answer was wrong. Soooo good luck surviving using any strategy, because there is none here.

Sometimes Jerry responded to things in a way that made absolutely no sense and had me assuming the author was just trying to find unique ways to lead to death that weren't always accidents. But those felt a little forced when Jerry goes from polite to asshole in 0.5 seconds.

Much thanks to the publisher and author for a free e-book copy. My review is completely my own and completely voluntary.