# April Fool's Day

**Author(s):** Danilo Bach, Jeff Rovin
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/april-fools-day/verdict.json
**Genres:** slasher, horror
**Pages:** 222
**Publisher:** Corgi
**Published:** Wed Jan 01 1986 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-10:** 0552131482
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/april-fools-day

## Description

Eight rich college kids gather on a remote island during spring, but the April Fool's Day pranks begin to take a lethal turn as their bodies pile up.

Based on the screenplay by Danilo Bach, the book follows the film fairly closely and includes the infamous final act (with one of the three endings that were shot) which was lopped off of the movie.

## SageChimp reader verdict

April Fool's Day has no unpaid published reviews on SageChimp yet. That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/april-fools-day/verdict.json

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