This is a Fear Street book that breaks the mold by not starting with a first person narration by a murderer and also doesn’t ever feature any menacing phone calls. There is a prologue featuring our main character sleepwalking, in case you weren’t sure why the book was called that. It’s also got cover art by an artist who may have read the book, or at least part of it. (I’m going to pause to say I adore the covers on this series. The last […]
Why Prank Calls Are Dangerous: A Very Special Episode
Do you know what happens when a car that has crashed catches on fire? RL Stine apparently doesn’t. In the real world, a car that has caught on fire burns. In Hollywood and in Shadyside, however, every car is a Pinto. We’re back in familiar territory when the book opens with a first person narrative from a murderer. In this case, a murderer-to-be, as he’s planning rather than gloating. We then go to Deena Martinson and her friend Jade Smith. The two of them have […]
Didn’t I See That Twist in a Goosebumps Book Once?
I’m not completely clear on the timeline between these books. I’m not sure it’s worth trying to track, but I can’t help myself. This book doesn’t open with a narration from a murderer, either, so maybe I was wrong to expect it to be a standard for these books. This one is told in first person, but it hops back and forth between Mark and Cara. It’s shortly after the school year started, and Mark and Cara Burroughs are new students. As near as I […]
Bad Decisions: the Novel
Can I just say: anyone who goes camping at a place called ‘Fear Island’ deserves anything and everything that happens to them? This includes nothing, because I know if there were a Fear Island close enough while I was in high school, I probably would have tried to get someone to go camping there with me, and I probably would have been really disappointed when nothing at all happened. This being a novel, however, something did have to happen. The third Fear Street book departs […]