The Teenager's Guide to Surviving a Horror Film

by Coral Isabella Aurora

Hello. I am your guide. Your spirit guide.

Every year, the haunted Mathswell mansion lures eight teenagers into its depths on Halloween night. As a previous victim cursed to wander the estate, Jacqueline uses her expertise on horror films to guide the newest teens. But there is a problem. No one can hear her sarcastic voice.

Keeping eight teens alive shouldn’t be hard. But Fannie is addicted to dead languages, Hannah is infatuated with vampires, Jessica is more air than brain, Hal is shallow and greedy, Mandy makes bad life decisions, Aven is in permanent denial, and Lewis likes to feed the wildlife.

Finally, there’s Jack. He’s geeky, handsome, protective, and everything she wants in a boyfriend. She never experienced first love when she was alive. Why does her heart keep longing, when science deems, she doesn’t have one? More than anything she wants to save him, she’s even willing to fight for him.

Following the thirty rules to surviving a horror film, would you survive?

287 pages, Paperback

Published August 17, 2019

About the author

Coral Isabella Aurora is a young adult author who loves a good love story and a laugh. She enjoys writing novels that have a pinch of romance, humor, and thrills with a brilliant story.

Coral loved writing books as a child. The stories she created feature dazzling worlds, fantastic landscapes, vivid narratives, and heartfelt love stories. They are filled with hope, magic, and the impossible. Coral’s protector, who she remembers from past lifetimes, is her eternal love and muse for all her male protagonists.

Currently, Coral is working on The Teenager's Guide series, but other exciting projects will be released in the future.

Author of The Teenager's Guide to Surviving a Horror Film. In this horror comedy, eight teenagers stay the night in a cursed, murderous mansion longing to kill each teen in horrible - sometimes hilarious - ways. Told from the perception of a sarcastic, witty teenage ghost, this tale is full of twists, turns, a dash of paranormal romance, and zombie filled graveyards trekked by high heel clad girls.

Reviews

[Stacey · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book has so much potential-the premise is clever and I think it could really appeal to teens. However, it needs some serious editing. The amount of description for every inanimate object in this book is over the top. Here's an example "The cream hued tiles of the bathroom reminded me of a sea shell, like when I had walked the beach when I was part of the living. The light was dim and golden. A bathtub sat to the right, half covered by a curtain speckled with a cute gold bat pattern. The sink was set in honeyed wood with a speckled caramel-colored marble countertop." None of this comes into play further into the book...it's just description for no reason other than to add a paragraph to the page! I found myself constantly skimming to get to any plot.

[Melina Lobo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rule 2:
Don’t Listen to the Stupid Person
Who Thinks It Would Be Fun to Stay
in the Old Abandoned House for the Night.
Never go into a stranger’s house
just ’cause you were invited.
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Jacqueline is a ghost trapped in Mathswell Mansion because of a curse on the mansion.
Her aim is to stop others from getting trapped just like her but because no one can see or hear her she fails.
She lives in the mansion with other monsters, ghosts and unnatural beings that are not really friendly.
On Halloween night, a group of teenagers wander into the house and it's upto Jacqueline to save them before they all die.
Can she save them and free herself in the process?
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The Teenager's Guide to Surviving a Horror Film is a YA paranormal comedy novel by Coral Aurora
This book is Coraline's, Monster House's and Caspar the Friendly Ghost's love child.
It's both scary and funny at the same time.
I love Jacqueline witty humour, Jack and his presence of mind.
Some of the other characters are annoying spoilt teenagers with a couple of teens with some brains in them.
Drake was the scene stealer of the book because his daddy issues mad me laugh so hard.
There are certain parts that logically don't make sense but I was LIVING for it.
That's what this book is, it's a fun book that anyone can enjoy because of the way it's written and I loved it.
The twist somewhere at the end was one I did not see coming.
But I loved it, loved it, loved it.
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Rated 100/100
Melina L.

[M. J. Pereira · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wouldn't call this a horror book. I'm big into horror, and based on what I read, this isn't it. If anything, this is more of... a kid horror, kind of thing. Not a young adult.
Moving away from that... I won't sugarcoat this. It needs a lot more detail in certain spots. For example, when Jack kissed Jacqueline, it pretty much just said: "He kissed me."
The detail that is there is very little.
And if there was more detail on how scary the monsters were, that would fix the problem with the book not being scary.
Overall, I did feel like things moved a little too fast throughout the book, almost as if I blinked and they escaped. Like, the teenagers that were there before them must've been dumb as hell to have died faster than they did.
So overall, problems were: The monsters weren't scary, things moved too fast, and there wasn't enough detail.
However, I did enjoy this book overall.
I liked the humor and sarcasm that came with each rule, and I loved the ending. (How they went to heaven together, and of course, Fannie was there looking for more books.)
The ending was just brilliant.

[Max Bowen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Coral Isabella Aurora's "The Teenager's Guide to Surviving a Horror Film" is a great ride through the horror movie world, including all the aspects that we've come to expect when we put on a haunted house film. In this book, Coral collects these qualities with some cool tongue-in-cheek humor, detailed settings that come to life (or undeath, depending on the character), and a cast that checks off every box in Horror Bingo, but written in a creative manner that helps them stand on their own. The story is always shifting around, and I was genuinely surprised by what I read. A great choice for horror fans, but also good for those looking for a unique, well-plotted tale.

[Apua · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an AMAZING book!!! I love how realistic the characters and how much detail each of the settings are. I'm not normally a fan comical horror, but this book was hard to look away from. The spirit guide leads you through one adventure after another all of them almost seamlessly connected. I'm almost 18 and this book was perfect for me but I know that it would work for both younger and older audiences too. If you are an animal or just a magic lover and want to let your imagination run free then I would recommend reading this book! Coral Isabella Aurora I can't wait till your next book!!!

[Zoe Estrin-Grele · Rating 3 out of 5]

The prose is a little clunky and the characters feel more like 90’s stereotypes than ones from 2019, but this book makes up for it with a lot of heart and passion