This a prose novel which is part of the “Goosebumps” original book series
COOL CLIMAX
The development of the novel is qThe mother of all twists!
This a prose novel which is part of the “Goosebumps” original book series
COOL CLIMAX
The development of the novel is quite entertained (but without any body count, I’m afraid) but still enough engaging to keep reading, while nothing extraordinary…
…BUT…
…the climax (don’’t worry I won’t spoil) is certainly one of the most unexpected twists in any R.L. Stine book that I’ve ever read. Of course, even so it isn’t something totally original since I could cite examples in books and tv series using that idea, but way before of this novel, but again I won’t mention them since if any of you knows about those examples, it could be easily discovered what is the big twist in this novel, that I can assure you that only for that surprise, it’s totally worthy the reading of the story.
In other comments, there are some stuff too convenient in the narrative like the precise useful technology to spot invisible stuff. The title is quite odd since the central character already has a best friend but it’s not the invisible boy of the story (while he mentions that he wants to be his best friend, still is kinda misleading or confusing), but one cool thing is that the funny cover used for the book is actually a correct representation of a scene in the novel.
The book’s central character is Sammy Jacobs and he’s a middle school student and his best friend is Roxanne Johnson, both classmates and they need to do a report about something for the school and Roxanne decided that could be cool to investigate the alleged haunted mansion, the Hedge House. Sammy’s parents are profesional scientists and they’re kinda disappointed about Sammy since he prefers science fiction than real science. Sammy’s father invented a special light that it can show if something is invisible (too convenient as I already mentioned before and you can bet that it will be key in the right moment).
ENTER: BRENT GREEN, INVISIBLE BOY
Sammy is beginning to suffer strange things at home and school and soon enough, Brent Green, an invisible boy interacts with Sammy and telling him that he wished to be his best friend. While Brent seems to be well intentioned, several things won’t happened in the best way provoking that Sammy decided that Brent isn’t as good for a best friend as he’d wish for.
And again, there is the totally unexpected twist of events in the climax that leaves you with an open mouth and trying to verify if you’re reading correctly. Maybe the development of the story is kinda mild in comparison with other novels in the Goosebumps book series, therefore I should gave it like only 3 stars in the rating, but again I can tell you that the ending is so unexpected that totally makes worthy the reading of the book, so I decided to give it a full 5 stars rating.
This a prose novel which is part of the “Fear Street” original book series. Actually, this is the very first entrAn iconic book series began here!
This a prose novel which is part of the “Fear Street” original book series. Actually, this is the very first entry in the book series.
GHOST OR NOT GHOST, THAT IS THE QUESTION
R.L. Stine was already worldwide famous due his book series titled Goosebumps oriented for kids (but anybody can read) and then was the time to catch older audiences, and he conceived Fear Street, another horror book series but oriented for teenager (once again, anybody can read it) and this is the very first novel in that said series, and it’s quite popular and mentioned in several list of the best ones, and certainly it deserves the good rates and comments.
This is a very well written novel, taking its time to construct the story (even it’s quite descriptive with locations and places of Shadyside town (place where every Fear Street story happens)), with cool characters and an engaging story with plenty of twists to satisfy anybody.
If I would mention something like negative, maybe it’s the body count (something that R.L. Stine is quite selective (I guess that while they’re horror stories, still are thought to be read by kids and teenagers)) since there is only one dead in the whole book, but honestly, it’s the only one that it needs it to work alright.
Cory Brook is a teenager, student of Shadyside High and member of the school’s gymnastic team. He meets Anna Corwin, the new girl in school, an enigmatic girl, hauntingly beautiful, eerily cold, quite pale, who wears old dresses, and when the story develops, several bits of information points to the conclusion that Anna is…
…DEAD!!!
Is it possible that Anna is a ghost? Her house seems to be in…
…FEAR STREET!!!
And anything is possible in Fear Street!
But a ghost girl walking around in Shadyside High?
Cory and her best friend (and next door neighbor), Lisa Blume (who has a secret crush for Cory), assistant editor of The Spectator, the Shadyside High school paper, join forces trying to solve the riddle of the strange-looking girl, Anna.
I won’t spoil you anything else, but I can assure that even when the trurh comes out, you are shocked with at least a triple twist, already leaving you uncertain of who is lying and who is telling the truth!
A spooky awesome first entry to inaugurate this iconic book series from the mind of the horror master, R.L. Stine!
There are several adaptations of this timeless classic novel, beginning with the A tragedy as only in a book you find!
THE BOOK VS THE MOVIE(S)
There are several adaptations of this timeless classic novel, beginning with the famous 1923 silent film starring the make-up legend Lon Chaney, but the movie that made a mark in my memory when I was still a kid was the 1939 adaptation now with sound and having Charles Laughton which make-up job provokes me nightmare back then, and obviously I have fond memories of the Disney’s animated adaptation that certainly isn’t faithful but it’s quite entertained and a great movie to watch.
While in each movie adaptation has its own share of tragedy, they still have the north of keeping a nice sentiment in the audience (not surprising, specialy the Disney’s one) but I can assure that the book is one of the most tragic books that I’ve ever read, astonishing writing work but certainly if you try to count the good moments in the books, you can use one hand and still have plenty of fingers to spare.
Oh boy! So much tragedy! Brilliantly written, but certainly this book isn’t for the faint of heart. The first thing that shocked me is that Esmeralda is a 16-years old girl! I believe that in each movie adaptation, Esmeralda is easily in her twenties, and since she is the lustful desire of almost any main male characters in the story, it’s no wonder why the movie productions opted to change that big detail, since in the book that it’s quite polemic that almost all any main male character (with the key exception of Quasimodo), they are adults having improper sexual attraction for a underage minor girl! Yikes!
Other major change (but I haven’t seen or rememring many adaptations) is the character of Pierre Gringoire, a poet, that honestly I don’t remember being included in the films (but I can be mistaken), but it’s no wonder if he had been excluded from film adaptations, since his role isn’t that relevant and if you take him out, the main story can work almost the same as good (or as tragic actually!).
THE SILENT MAIN CHARACTER
The Notre-Dame de Paris (actually the original French title is just that, the name of the cathedral, changed to The Hunchback of Notre-Dame in English versions) is without a doubt the silent main character of the story, very much like Casablanca or Titanic where the name of the setting/place where the events happened is the title for the narrative.
The story happened in 1482 (ten years before of America’s discovery) in Paris, France, under the reign of King Louis XI.
This outstanding novel helped to make the cathedral, one of the most important (if not the most important one) cultural elements of the France, and a building that almost anybody in the world knows about of its existence (and that luckily it was recently (December 2024) finished its restauration after a terrible fire happened like 5 years ago). Denoting its impressive Gothic architecture which is really a world patrimony to keep.
FOR WHOM THE (LUSTFUL) BELLS TOLL
The story is moving around a 16-years old Gipsy girl, street dancer, named Esmeralda (I still can’t digest that Esmeralda is an underage minor in the original book!) which is the object for improper sexual desires by…
…Pierre Gringoire, a poet that unluckily ends in the middle of the “Court of Miracles” (a secret place where the Paris’ beggar community) and to avoid being killed, Esmeralda agrees to marry him (Dammit!) but at least, Pierre while attracted to her, Esmeralda made him to understand that it won’t be any physical between them.
…Quasimodo, a hunchback working as bell-ringers of the Notre-Dame. Due some revelations, it’s understood that he’s underage minor, he’s deformed and not quite mentally sane. He was left at the gates of Notre-Dame and since then, he was under the care of the cathedral’s archdeacon, therefore, Quasimodo obeys him in everything the archdeacon tells him to do. Usually, every year, on January 6th, he participates in a people’s festivity called “The Festival of Fools” where he is named “the Pope of Fools”.
…Archdeacon Claude Frollo, religious regent of the Notre-Dame cathedral, hated by the people of Paris due his embittered attitude and his insidious alchemy practices. He became obssessed for Esmeralda, so he orders Quasimodo to kidnapp her!
…Captain Phoebus de Chateaupers, captain of King’s archers, and while she saves Esmeralda from the kidnapping attempt, he’s only interested of having sex with Esmeralda (Damnit! Underage minor for Christ’s sakes!) and of course (since this is a tragedy), Esmeralda is infatuated by Phoebus (she even teaches to her pet goat, Djali, to “spell” the name Phoebus for public shows).
Since the kidnapping didn’t work out, Quasimodo is arrested and having a public torture, during that happening, Esmeralda comes close to him and offers him water that that very well save his life, and obviously Quasimodo falls in love for Esmeralda.
Frollo doesn’t tolerate that Esmeralda is having a crush for Captain Phoebus and he tries to kill him but while Phoebus gets badly hurt, he didn’t die, but Esmeralda is accused of the attempted murder…
…but Quasimodo saves her and takes her to the Notre-Dame cathedral and he invoques sanctuary to avoid that authorities would be able to enter and arrest Esmeralda, and since Frollo realizes that Quasimodo isn't that obedient anymore, he asked for the assistance in his insidious machinations to Sister Gudule, but that will provoke unforeseen implications!
Therefore, I can’t detail more since I’d enter into the major spoils and twists of the story, but so far it’s the part of the story that everybody has a general knowledge of the timeless tale…
…and I can assure that this is one of the most tragic stories that I’ve ever read but without a doubt it was masterfully crafted and everything is there for a reason and astonishing connections are made between events and characters. Highly recommended!
This a prose novel which is part of the “Goosebumps: Most Wanted” book series
HO-HO-HORROR!
I am truly pleased with this Chilling tale for xmas!
This a prose novel which is part of the “Goosebumps: Most Wanted” book series
HO-HO-HORROR!
I am truly pleased with this book since it was greatly entertained, quite spooky in some moments and good overall story.
There is a prologue set in 1882 detailing the accounts of the Marcus family and their tragedy when they moved to a new house, Aaron & Peg Marus had three children, the twins Abe & Ned and the little sister Flora, this last one fell into a well and she died not after screaming “Get me Out” twelve times! Geez! The book isn’t engaged into the main narrative and a small child already passed away, R.L. Stine isn’t fooling around with this one! Certainly sad and creepy.
Now, in “present time”, we meet Kate Welles, the main character of the novel, she is a kid in middle school and she wants to perform the lead character in a play titled…
…The 12 Screams of Christmas!!!
The theater play was written by Mr. Piccolo, the music teacher (I wonder if the physical education is taught by Mr. Goku (if you’re Dragon Ball fan, you’d understand the comment), which is a descendant of the very Marcus family mentioned in the prologue! And the play is an adaptation of the tragic events around the demise of Flora Marcus.
Kate has a psychic ability for seeing ghosts, and a “frenemy” of hers, Courtney Smith was mockering her with the nickname of “Ghost Girl”. Kate has a sppoky incident in the cemetery with some ghosts there, but her good friend Jack Hopper assisted her.
Kate and Courtney, both wanted to be the lead character and after a violent struggle, Mr. Piccolo decided to the give the part to other girl, Carol-Ann (with that name, she should be the lead character but in the book! A Christmas tale with someone named Carol-Ann, that could be priceless! In other stuff, oddly, she is described to have two totally different kind of hair type and color in two separate moments of the book).
Mr. Piccolo had the “brilliant” idea of doing the rehearsals for the play in…
…yes, you guessed right…
…in the old creepy Marcus abandoned house!
In there, the ghosts of Abe and Ned will begin to chase Kate trying to “make” her the new replacement for the missing Flora and in that way, becoming a full family again (that part reminded a bit some stuff of Coraline, not quite but kinda).
It’s odd the cover of the book, that while quite cool, there is the image of a single old man as a ghost, while much of the book, you have the twins messing around, and later you have the ghosts of the parents too, but still, the chosen image for the cover doesn’t seem to about Aaron Marcus neither, and in any case, he’s not that relevant to deserve to be in the cover. It’s like somebody would design the cover without grasping the proper narrative of the story.
I won’t detail further to avoid spoilers, but I can guarantee you that this is a cool book to read in Christmas season, fun and spooky, and with a eerie twist at the end as only R.L. Stine can bring about.
This a prose novel which is part of the “Goosebumps” original book series
CHILLING TALE
When the snows blow wild And thQuite entertained book!
This a prose novel which is part of the “Goosebumps” original book series
CHILLING TALE
When the snows blow wild And the day grows old, Beware the Snowman, my child. Beware the Snowman, He brings the cold.
I hadn’t much hopes for this book, but I was greatly surprised that this Goosebumps novel was way better than I’d expected with spooky ambiance, interesting characters, some twists and a cool ending, it didn’t have any body count and even the real action isn’t happened until the final climax, but the development of the story was so well narrated giving real spooky setting that I had such a good blast reading the book that I considere done of the best in the line of Goosebumps that I’ve read, not the best, but definitely one of the best in the bunch of Goosebumps.
Jaclyn DeForest had to move to live with her aunt, Greta in Chiicago, when she was 5 years old, due losing her parents, and now with 12 years old, she is moving again since her aunt Greta is returning to a town called “Sherpia” (is this real or a made-up town, I guess it’s made-up) which is a snowy village at some mountains near the Artic Circle (is really near of the Artic Circle?! Or is i tan exageration, I didn’t get that).
This town, Sherpia, is almost deserted, but “decorated” almost on each corner with snowmen, having a spooky appearance with a scar in the faces, no less!
Jaclyn meet two siblings, Rolonda and Eli Browing, and they tell her unsettling stories about the reasons of having so many snowmen everywhere around, that Jacklyn doesn’t know if believe them or not, but something is clear…
…at the peak of the snowy mountain, there is an ice cave where…
…a Snowman monster lives there!!!
All this stuff about snowmen makes remember to Jacklyn about an old nursery rhyme that her parent read to her when she was a kid…
…why suddenly is she remembering that?
Near the the peak of the mountain, there is a cabin where a mysterious man named Conrad lives there along with a white wolf named Wolfbane, and something is quite clear…
…they don’t like people snooping around the ice cave!
I won’t detail more to avoid spoilers, but definitely this Goosebumps book was a cool (pun intended) reading experience and I enjoyed it a lot.
When the snows melt And the warm sun is with thee, Beware, the Snowman Fort he Snowman shall go free.
This a prose novel which is part of the “Fear Street” original book series.
IT’S NOT EASY TO BE A QUEEN
This is a really gooThe prom is killing!
This a prose novel which is part of the “Fear Street” original book series.
IT’S NOT EASY TO BE A QUEEN
This is a really good Fear Street novel and while I have hopes to get fairly entertained; I didn’t expect to have such a wonderful blast in my reading experience with this particular book that indeed is one of the best by R.L. Stine that I’ve read, not the very best one, but easily between the best ten books so far.
Elizabeth “Lizzy” McVay is a student in her Senior Year at Shadyside High and she is voted along with other four girls to the contest for being the Prom Queen (including a $3,000 scholarship as prize), the other four candidates are: Dawn Rodgers (close friend of Lizzy and quite popular with boys), Rachel West (the other close friend of Lizzy and she’s quite poor and living in the middle of Fear Street), there is too Simone Perry (gorgeous and quite stylish in her wardrobe) and finally Elana Potter (she is quite willing to get boyfriends from other girls without worrying too much).
This book has an impressive body count (comparing with other R.L. Stine’s books) since even before the proper beginning of the events, you already is told of the deaths of two girls (one found in Fear Street woods, and another in Durham (a near town from Shadyside) and therefore, there is a general alert for a serial killer. Maybem you won’t impressed at the end, if you think of books by authors such Stephen King, Dean Koontz or Ramsey Campbell, but in comparison with Goosebumps (oriented for kids) by R.L. Stine where almost there aren’t any deaths, or even in some Fear Street novels where nobody died or there is only one death, I can assure you that you have a fair ammount of blood in this cool novel.
Some of the male characters are Justin Stiiles (current Simone’s boyfriend but he’s not shy to ask other girls to go out), Gideon Miller (current Rachel’s boyfriend but he’s considering to break up), Robbie Barron (in charge of a theater play (The Sound of Music) at Shadyside High and which all of the Prom Queen’s candidate have some role on it), and Lucas Brown (school’s weirdo that he doesn’t stop of doing bad taste pranks and comments).
I like this novel since while the real killer was one of my suspects (no, I won’t spoil it), honestly I had at least three other suspects and while the real one was my strongest suspicion, I wasn’t totally sure until it was revealed, so I liked a lot that, since it wasn’t that easy to foretell.
Definitely, if you’re fan of R.L. Stine, and you haven’t read yet this novel, this is a great option to engage into it.
This is a manga compendium, recollecting the original three volumes of the “Tomiei” manga series, known as “Tomie”, “ToYou’ll learn to fear Tomie!
This is a manga compendium, recollecting the original three volumes of the “Tomiei” manga series, known as “Tomie”, “Tomie Part 2” and “Tomie Again”, containing the first 20 chapters, published in the mentioned volumes. This compedium doesn’t include the three most recent published stories “Tomie: Takeover”, “Tomie: Control” and the Souichi/Tomie crossover “Souichi Possessed”.
CHAPTER ONE: TOMIE
Here, it’s the introduction of the main character Tomie Kawakami, where even here, there’s still a lot of mystery about how and why she became a paranormal being able to regenerate from any part of her body, even blood or hair, and each part can regenerate a full Tomie clone, making her virtually impossible to kill, specially since she is somehow cursed with something that compels almost any male human of wanting to cut her in pieces, and each piece will eventually regenerate full Tomie clones.
Tomie is a high school student having an illicit romantic relationship with her teacher Satoru Takagi, due the curse of Tomie, he cuts her in pieces and once he thinks she is dead and she won’t came back…
…SHE CAME BACK!!!
Takagi tries to make that another student, Yamamoto, like the culprit of Tomie’s original murder, but when she came back, acting as if nothing happened, everything goes out of control.
CHAPTERS TWO, THREE & FOUR: PHOTOGRAPH, KISS & MANSION
This is three-part arc where a Tomie appears in a different school pretending being a transfer student and soon enough got into the Public Morale Committee.
Here you meet Tsukiko Izumigawa, member of the Photohraphy Club and that she uses her position to take pictures of fellow students and to sell the pictures to other students having a crush on them. Tomie exposes Tsukiko’s activities and when Tsukiko tries to take photographs of Tomie, she discovers with horror that any picture taken of Tomie will appears with horrorful added elements.
Tsukiko has a boyfriend, Yamazaki, but Tomie will use her influence in other students to mess their relationship. Along with this, there is an insiduous plot involving a rich mansion, that I won’t spoil it.
CHAPTER FIVE: REVENGE
Doi, Hamaguchi and Tanimura are a mountaineering team that they are looking for Tanimura’s brother, in a snowy mountain, but they finds a Tomie freezing and almost dead there and she claims that she was attacked and left there to die. Soom enough Doi and Hamaguchi will fall under Tomie’s spell, but her sights are on Tanimura.
CHAPTER SIX: THE BASIN OF WATERFALL
This is story about a salesman selling “sedes” that he promises that if you plant them, you’ll get a full woman out of it.
CHAPTER SEVEN & EIGHT: MORITA HOSPITAL & BASEMENT
Yukiko is a patient in a hospital waiting for a kidney transplant but Tomie will mess the whole thing up.
CHAPTER NINE: PAINTER
Mitsuo Mori is a painter and he’s already have a model named Nana, but Tomie will have different plans since she wants to be Mori’s model.
CHAPTER TEN: MURDER (AKA ASSASSIN)
Tetsuo helps Tomie from a street attack but soon enough he will between the sword and the wall in a battle between two Tomies, one only a head and other full body.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: HAIR
Chie discovers a box with a lot of human hair that her father kept hidden, soon enough she and her best friend Miki, will get into a war of who has the best hair, where Tomie will be the only victorious.
Tomie is adopted by Mr. & Mrs. Hinada, and everything is going well until Satoko, the ambitious maid of the family has other plans, but she doesn’t imagine what is Tomie capable of.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: LITTLE FINGER
From now on, almost each Tomie that you will meet, they are already young adults (showing that Tomie is able to grow up giving her the due time). Here, a Tomie is the second wife of an old man and stepmother of four young adult men, where the fourh son is horribly deformed and seems to be immune to Tomie’s spell, and he’ll be the unwilling center of battle between the other three sons for the attention of Tomie.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: BOY
A boy named Satoru (that I thought initially that he could be Satoru Takagi when he was a boy but the way that it’s implied how the story ends makes impossible that theory) finds a Tomie in a cave in the beach, but she is still weak and in the process of regenerating.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: MOROMI
Ishikuza is a man involved with a Tomie and once he kills her, he ask for the help of his friend, Nagaoka, to ger rid of the evidence. Nagaoka’s family has a sake factory and “moromi” is how the unrefined sake is called.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: BABYSITTER
Erita has the poor luck of becoming the babysitter of “Marina” that she’s in reality of a still regenerating Tomie with an insane obsession of seeing red things.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: GATHERING
Umehara is in mourn for the death of his girlfriend, Naoko, and while in that, his friend Miyagawa invites Umehara to a reunion that resulted in a gathering of Tomie’s admirers where there is a Tomie and she gets pissed off since Umehara isn’t affected for Tomie’s spell.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN, NINETEEN & TWENTY: PASSING DEMON, TOP MODEL & OLD AND UGLY
This a three-part arc where there is a town with three “Tomies”, known as Ayaka Nakamura, Miho Kaneshiro and Mai Oyama, but there is a mystery there since they were normal girls until some point for later step by step becoming kinda Tomie clones, and each of them are quite territorial and they won’t like each other.
This is a manga horror anthology, collecting four different short stories.
Writer and Illustrator: Junji Ito
WEEPING WOMAN HILLEerie collection!
This is a manga horror anthology, collecting four different short stories.
Writer and Illustrator: Junji Ito
WEEPING WOMAN HILL
Mako and Yuzuru are engaged soon to be married and in a train travel, they decided to get down in a town called Touhoku to do some tourism.
Walking around, they find a wake, a memorial service in a house, where there is a “weeping woman” seems to be a hired professional person in charge of crying for the deceased one. This meeting provoques some kind of “awakening” in Mako and when they return to Tokyo, she just can’t stop of crying.
Yuzuru decides to take back Mako to Touhoku to find that weeping woman, but they don’t imagine that that weeping woman is just the “first tear” in a very larger picture in a secret hill.
MADONNA
Mari Ameno is starting to attend Tensei School, a religious school where the preacher Yukiro Tenjo is the principal, managing the school along with his second wife, Misuzu Tenjo, which is supposed to be quite beautiful when she was younger to the point to be called “Saint Mary” but since she is now bitter and older, the students called her “The Witch”.
Yukiro Tenjo had a first wife called Tenjo Haruyo (that she was supposed to be as beautiful as St. Mary too) which he had a son called Kirito Tenjo, both dissapeared under mysterious circumstances.
Soon enough Mary Ameno got the attention of the principal Yukiro Tenjo and she is promoted to an “elite class” where Satomi Kiyokawa, a very beautiful teacher, is managing that elite class, and once there, very strange things are beginning to happen like salt pouring from the ears of students.
Mari Ameno will discover soon enough the dark secrets of the Tenjo family and their repercussions in the school.
SLUMBER
Takuya Terada is a law student trying to pass the bar exam to become a lawyer, in the middle of this, he is beginning to have disturbing dreams about murdering people, and even more disturbing when the following mornings, the news reported that those murders actually did happen!
Takuya considers to present himself to the justice, specially since he believes that some “witness” was watching him while doing the murders.
Takuya’s girlfriend, Kanami, doesn’t believes that Takuya is really guilty and some explanation must exist, specially considering that police and reporters are considering the murders the work of some copycat of a infamous serial killer already sentenced to death.
THE SPIRIT FLOW OF AOKIGAHARA
Norio is diagnosed with a terminal ill and he decides along with his girlfriend, Mika, to commit suicide travelling to the Aokigahara Forest, the infamous “Suicide Forest” (that actually exist in real life and real people go there all the time to commit suicide in Japan).
Once there, they find the “Dragon’s Mouth” some kind of cave where spirits flow away to Mt. Fuji, and Norio started to believe that the contact with those spirits are beginning to cure him.
This is a manga compendium, recollecting the original three volumes of the “Uzumaki” manga series, containing the whole 19 cShocking crafty manga!
This is a manga compendium, recollecting the original three volumes of the “Uzumaki” manga series, containing the whole 19 chapters plus an extra chapter.
MANGA VS ANIME MINISERIES VS LIVE-ACTION MOVIE
The Uzumaki manga series has two adaptations, a very recent (ended just last week) anime miniseries with four episodes and a live-action movie made in the year of 2000.
The live-action film departs from the original manga, specially in the way that ends, BUT it has an excuse since the movie was produced when the manga was still in publication.
However, the anime miniseries was made this year (2024) and while it ends just like the manga series, during the development of the story, it presents several stuff in different way, even some moments are quite less shocking or scary in comparison with the original material. I guess that the decision of doing only four anime episodes instead of some larger miniseries and the concept of mixing the sub-stories of each manga chapters, instead of presenting each manga chapter separately didn’t work out that good in the anime version, but I think that the odd decision of changing punchlines or moments to some “less shocking” results was not only illogical but a missing opportunity of having a really compelling anime adaptation, in several sub-stories but “Jack-in-the-box” is easily one of the most affected doing a milder adaptation.
Therefore, if you want to know the real complete story of Uzumaki, so far at this moment, I recommend to read the original manga series…
…BUT BEWARE! since this manga series isn’t for the faint of heart since Junji Ito is without a question the most respected horror manga writer/illustrator of Japan.
SPIRALS EVERYWHERE!
Welcome to Koruzo, and if you arrived to this town, bad news since it’s a certainity that you won’t be able to leave it anymore! A town cursed with an ancient evil where the Firefly Lake, the center of the town will be pivotal to the development of vastly different curses and shocking transformations.
Meet Kirie Goshiwa, a gorgeous blonde teenage girl, which is the central character of this spiraling story, where you will see spirals literally everywhere! Water, skies, breath, skin, etc… and those spirals will takes unexpected shapes changing to the worst the destinies of the inhabitants of Koruzo, just in front of the terrified eyes of Kirie without being able to help anyone, just being an unwilling witness of this shocking horror, but even she won’t be safe of the weird spiral curses along this dreadful journey.
Shuichi Saito is the best friend of Kirie, and he is the one who first notices that spirals are invading the town in all kind of aproaches impacting nature and people alike, and in this latter case, not only shocking physical transformation but also breaking of their minds.
I could ge tinto details of the sub-stories but I feel that it could quite spoiling, therefore, if you’re interested and you have the stomach to endure it, maybe you can give it a chance to Uzumaki that it’s the most known work of the prolific horror manga writer/illustrator Junji Ito.
This a prose novel which is part of the “Fear Street” original book series.
TRUTHFULLY DARING
April Leeds is invited along with oThrilling tale!
This a prose novel which is part of the “Fear Street” original book series.
TRUTHFULLY DARING
April Leeds is invited along with other of teenage friends to a weekend at the snowy mountains of Shadyside, in a cabin which is of Dara Harker’s family (in reality is a time sharing deal but still).
Dara Harker is a rich girl and she invited some of her acquaintances, April Leeds (protagonist), Ken Knight and Jenny Byrd (a romantic couple), and Josh Berman (he doesn’t assist Shadyside High but he is kinda friend of Dara), however, once there they arrived to the cabin, they find another couple Tony Macedo (his family is time sharing the cabin) and Carly Rae.
A cool detail is that Corky Corcoran (protagonist of the Cheerleading saga) is mentioned in a dialogue of them. Corky is quite popular in the Fear Street book series, therefore while she doesn’t appear in other books of the series, she is quite mentioned here and there.
The group was planning to ski in the snowy mountains, however there is a blizzard and they have to remain in the cabin, so to be entertained, it’s proposed to play a Truth or Dare game, but they didn’t imagine that that game would lead to…
…MURDER!!!
That night a member of the group is murdered in a very violent way, having a hatchet in the back, and another member of the group is missing, and the only car dissappeared, and obviously the only phone isn’t working (this is before of the cell phones)…
…so they are alone in the middle of a snow storm and with a murderer among them!
I really liked this story, the narrative was way entertained and the ambiance is well crafted to the thriller, and I couldn’t guess who and why was the real murderer, so that was good too.
This a prose novel which is part of the “Point Horror” book series
NEW HOUSE, OLD MURDER
In reality, it’s not an old muReally interesting novel!
This a prose novel which is part of the “Point Horror” book series
NEW HOUSE, OLD MURDER
In reality, it’s not an old murder but just one year ago, Martha Stevenson, soon enough finds out that her new house is infamous due a murder happened there…
…exactly in her new bedroom!
That’s not helping to the fact that she isn’t only moving to a new town, leaving behind all her Friends, but dealing with a new stepmother, Sally, and a new stepbrother, Conor.
Her dad is a traveling writer and once they arrived to the new house, he’s called to Hawaii and takes Sally with him to have a honeymoon, but Martha and Conor have to stay in the town of Bedford alone. In fact, the “murder house” is Bedford House, since it was the home of the founding family of the town.
Martha meets the welcome committee, the Chambers’ Clan; Blake, a sports star; Wynn, his cousin; and Greg, the school advisor in Bedford High; all cousins. Blake is clearly interested in Martha, while Wynn was the best friend of the murdered victim and she’s having a crush on Conor, Martha’s stepbrother, which isn’t that rare since it seems that all towngirls are interested in Conor.
Martha without being aware of the murdering history of the house (that by the way the property included a private cemetery!), she was already uneasy with the weird vibes of the house, but things got worse when she is starting to suffer all the stuff that Jennifer Bedford suffered previously to her death, like awful phone calls and provoked fires, and the worse is that, Dennis, the person wanted by the police for the crime, wasn’t found yet.
I had my suspicions since early in the reading which proved right (no, I won’y spoil it) but still the novel is quite well written with an engaging narrative and interesting characters. I really enjoyed the reading experience.
I was contacted by the author and I received a copy of this book in exchange of a honest review.
DISCOVERING THE BOA strange reading experience.
I was contacted by the author and I received a copy of this book in exchange of a honest review.
DISCOVERING THE BOOK
This is interesting reading which combines several genres in a fairly way. It's like Treasure's Island meets The Mysterious Island with far less pirates substituted by archaeologists.
The cover of the book is very well done guaranteeing a professional writing work.
The novel indeed is very well written with an entertaining rhythm. Creating colorful characters with ambivalent personalities which makes unpredictable their reactions on each scene.
Also, the author developed an alternate world where things are not the same as in our world's history, but with taste and not trying to overwhelming with too much differences. Just the right amount of details to establish that you are in a parallel dimension.
Maybe one of the criticisms is that while it's clearly that the storyline is expected that the main characters will engage in a journey by boat to some unknown island, well, the story took too much time to reach that point, overdetailing how they are able to acomplish that even narrating dead ends in those efforts. I think that a quicker starting point to the journey to the island could increase the possitive impact of the reading.
There are some elements that remain unexplained on the island after the ending of the book and certainly that it's kinda dissapointing since the whole point of the novel is the expedition to the island to discover the mysteries there.
But in general, is an entertaining novel written with style and good taste.
Merged review:
A strange reading experience.
I was contacted by the author and I received a copy of this book in exchange of a honest review.
DISCOVERING THE BOOK
This is interesting reading which combines several genres in a fairly way. It's like Treasure's Island meets The Mysterious Island with far less pirates substituted by archaeologists.
The cover of the book is very well done guaranteeing a professional writing work.
The novel indeed is very well written with an entertaining rhythm. Creating colorful characters with ambivalent personalities which makes unpredictable their reactions on each scene.
Also, the author developed an alternate world where things are not the same as in our world's history, but with taste and not trying to overwhelming with too much differences. Just the right amount of details to establish that you are in a parallel dimension.
Maybe one of the criticisms is that while it's clearly that the storyline is expected that the main characters will engage in a journey by boat to some unknown island, well, the story took too much time to reach that point, overdetailing how they are able to acomplish that even narrating dead ends in those efforts. I think that a quicker starting point to the journey to the island could increase the possitive impact of the reading.
There are some elements that remain unexplained on the island after the ending of the book and certainly that it's kinda dissapointing since the whole point of the novel is the expedition to the island to discover the mysteries there.
But in general, is an entertaining novel written with style and good taste....more
This a prose novel of “The X-Files” set after the eleventh season.
THE X-FILES ARE OPEN AGAIN!
I was real excited wheMulder and Scully are back!
This a prose novel of “The X-Files” set after the eleventh season.
THE X-FILES ARE OPEN AGAIN!
I was real excited when I found out about this prose novel following the series after its final (so far) season, the eleventh one, in fact this prose novel is setting the bases about who is who and what’s going on, in this “eXpanded” prose universe, that I don’t how canonical is, since there are talkings for developing a new The X-Files series that depending how they’d doing it, both projects could co-exist without bothering each other.
We find Fox Mulder and Dana Scully after the events of the eleventh season, they’re mourning the death of “their son”, William aka Jackson Van De Kamp, but also living a little less preocupied since The Cigarette Smoking Man is no more and also The Syndicate is past history, and even the insidious Deputy Director Kersh took a sabbatical absence from the FBI…
…but the paranormal cases are erupting in an incredible speed, therefore the higher bosses in the FBI decide…
…TO RE-OPEN THE X-FILES ONCE AGAIN!
Meanwhile Mulder and Scully are trying to live a “normal” life together including the fact that Scully is expecting a child from Mulder (and now they are sure that indeed is a child of theirs!), Mulder is appearing in some paranormal TV shows and Scully is working in a genetical clinic for pregnant women that it helps her too to control her unusual pregnancy due her age.
The new Acting Assistant Director Ruth Morrison contacts Mulder and Scully to offer them to re-activate their special agents status and taking charge once again of the X-Files department, that after some talking, they accepted.
ENTER: AVATAR
Obviously, you can’t have the X-Files without a mysterious informant that this time is a young geek woman nicknamed “Avatar” (the cool one not the one with blue people (in her own words)) by Mulder due a t-shirt wore by her in their first shadowy meeting. Avatar told Mulder that while The Syndicate is indeed dissassembled, now there is a new insidious group known as The Inheritors but with different goals since while The Syndicate was looking for global control, the Inheritors are more interested about getting monetary profit from any available paranormal individual, and that it won’t be much difficult to find since The Syndicate infected a lot of humans, animals and event plants with Alien DNA and that’s the reason of so much paranormal cases appearing now.
I don’t know if I am thrilled about this concept that the new x-files would be due The Syndicate’s Alien DNA, since I think that’s a too easy path to explain why people is doing weird stuff, it’s like first two seasons of Smallville where every single villain was due Kryptonite contamination (I am fan of Smallville but I certainly appreciate when they started to introducing other reasons to have metahumans in the TV series).
Mulder & Scully first new case is too close for confort since it’s about a serial killer murdering pregnant women (and since Scully is pregnant herself, Mulder isn’t too thrilled about the risk) and the x-files factor in the cases is due some weird electrical surges occuring during the incidents, and the things aren’t as they think initially and Scully won’t the same after that!
AD Morrison assigned them a second case to deal along with the first one, in this second case, there is a mysterious assassin killing remnants people from The Syndicate and the x-file factor in the case is due the ability of dissapearing in a smoke cloud, and this mysterious assassing will prove to be a recurring opponent even more dangerous than the good ol’ Alien Bounty Hunter!
Along the way, they’ll meet Cherish Craddock, a gorgeous blond woman able to channel the dead, and Mulder and Scully will have shocking revelations, some from unexpected sources.
I never read anything by Claudia Gray but I was aware that she had been doing good stuff specially in Star Wars and after my eXcelent eXperience reading this The X-Files novel, certainly I’ll do my best to read in the near future some other novels by her.
This a prose novel which is part of the “Goosebumps: Most Wanted” book series, and it works like a loose sequel to “Dr.A better reading experience
This a prose novel which is part of the “Goosebumps: Most Wanted” book series, and it works like a loose sequel to “Dr. Maniac vs Robby Schwartz”.
NOT SO HARD TO RATE THIS TIME
While the first book Dr Maniac vs Robby Schwartz wasn’t that good, this loose sequel (since there isn’t any of the main characters of the previous but the villains) resulted a better reading experience since it was more interesting and ambitious, even it has an unexpected twist kinda dark, or at least quite awful to the protagonist of this second book.
DR. MANIAC RETURNS!
In this loose sequel, you have now Richard Dreezer, a different kid, but as you may expected, he is a big fan of comic books (but only that, he isn’t self-published author like Robby Schwartz), he has little brother named Ernie, a female classmate Bree Birnbaun (that she doesn’t like him but she needs to work with him for an assignment) (Richard has a kinda crush for Bree), there is another classmate Marcus Maloney (a kinda antagonist but he isn’t that important).
Richard has some allergies (or at least his mom is convinced about it) and he needs to go a doctor’s office of a physician named Dr. Root, his office is just in front of the Comic Book Museum, where the curator is a character known as Big Kahuna, and soon enough, Richard will pay a visit to the Comic Book Museum (that he knows every inch of it) but he will meet the new inhabitant of the museum…
…DR. MANIAC!!!
Along with the infamous Dr. Maniac, there is old acquaintances from the previous book, The Purple Rage and the Scarlet Starlet, but also new superpowered characters like Captain Croaker and Terry Tadpole, and…
…even Dr. Maniac will have a new mysterious ally!
There are funny details in the story like a “Ditko Avenue” (like in Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man) and the school is named “Hugh Jackman Middle School”.
As I commented before, while my experience with the previous book with the villlain Dr. Maniac wasn’t the best (not terrible but definitely the book could be better), I found this loose sequel quite imaginative and with a really funny but also kinda dark final twist....more
This a prose novel which is part of the “Goosebumps: Horrorland” book series.
HARD TO RATE
It was hard for me to rate thNot so maniac after all!
This a prose novel which is part of the “Goosebumps: Horrorland” book series.
HARD TO RATE
It was hard for me to rate this book, since the development wasn’t that entertaining, since technically isn’t a horror story but more superhero (or supervillain, actually) action but it’s not that inspired, that honestly, after reading Attack of the Mutant (from original Goosebumps book series) I was expecting an improvement, a revision of the theme, and therefore a better story, that sadly wasn’t the case…
…BUT…
…I found quite interesting that the story uses a narrative style quite similar to Gone Girl, but FOUR years before of the publication of Gone Girl!!! I am not saying that R.L. Stine invented the narrative style with this book, since it may be like The Blair Witch Project which it didn’t invent the “found footage” format, there had been several movies before, but certainly The Blair Witch Project made world popular the format impulsing a lot of new movies like it later. So, Gone Girl made world popular a style that later several authors wrote their own versions, and I found quite interesting that this humble book by R.L. Stine uses a narrative style that basically makes the same kind of impact to the reader, but four years before (without discarding that it could be other examples before).
So, if R.L. Stine was pioneer with a Gone Girl narrative style, why I couldn’t rate better this book? Easy. I hated the Gone Girl narrative style (you can look for my review about it), since I felt ripped off or deceived, like I wasted three weeks of reading. I have to mention that when I watched later the movie adaptation with Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, I liked a lot the film, not because the story was any improved, it’s basically a faithfull adaptation giving the same surprises, but for me, it’s different to be deceived or surprised only investing a couple of hours, than three weeks or more.
I won’t get into detail since I don’t want to spoil any of the two books.
COMIC STRIPS OR COMIC BOOKS?
Robby Schwartz has a hobbie of making comic strips (but it’s not clear if they’re really comic strips or actually comic books, which is a different format of the general genre of comics and/or graphic novels) but instead of superheroes, Robby prefers supervillains and all his comics (strips or books?) are about supervillains (I found this quite odd, since Robby complains at some point why he didn’t invent any superhero, since I don’t quite catch what kind of struggle can have those supervillains if there aren’t any superheroes to make a real challenge for them, anyway), and his main supervillain is…
…DR. MANIAC!!!
But there is at least a couple of other villains, The Purple Rage (like some kind of antagonist) and the Scarlet Starlet (some kind of companion), and soon enough it seems that they get into the real world.
Robby has two sibblings, Sam (brother) and Taylor (sister) and a good friend, Brooke, but soon enough they will be targets of his own creations.
The book has a fairly good pacing, but I found the action scenes not much inspired, but I have to give the the names of the superpowered characters are better thought that those used in Attack of the Mutant (but story in the first book was a lot better).
HORRORLAND CROSSOVER
The only thing kinda odd, is that the book is part of a marketing strategy where, after you read the main story, you’ll find a second story where the main characters of each previous book in the Horrorland series are appearing together, trapped in the Horrorland theme park, and while the text tells you what happened so far, if you haven’t read the entire series of Horrorland in order, you won’t get much reading this, if you read the books of this series in random order, like me....more
This a prose novel which is part of the original “Goosebumps” book series
COMIC BOOK WORLD AND REAL LIFE COLLIDING!
SincSurprisingly good story!
This a prose novel which is part of the original “Goosebumps” book series
COMIC BOOK WORLD AND REAL LIFE COLLIDING!
Since I am a comic book collector myself, I found this Goosebumps story quite appealing and even I was surprised that I liked it even more than I’d expected at first.
Bradley “Skipper” Matthews is a comic book collector and even he keeps several of his comic books totally sealed without reading them to avoid losing value (I keep them in protective bas alright but definitely I read them at least once), however the comic book of “The Masked Mutant” is a title that Skipper just can’t not reading it, therefore, each time that the comic book goes out, he read it entirely.
But “The Masked Mutant” is a different comic book since while he is the protagonist of the story, The Masked Mutant (which can manipulate his own molecular structure) isn’t a superhero but actually a supervillain, facing a entire team of superheroes known as “The League of Good Guys” (I have to admit that R.L. Stine could think a little further to come out with cooler names for them) where its leader is The Galloping Gazelle (a Flash-like wannabe).
Skipper has a little sister, Mitzi (that as usual in many R.L. Stine’s stories, she is always pesting his big brother), a friend, Wilson Clark (whom has the unusual hobbie of collecting rubber stamps) and soon enough he meets Libby Zacks (who collects comic books but a different kind of the ones that Skipper usually likes).
Everything is normal in the small town of Riverview Falls, until…
…Skipper finds the secret headquarters of The Masked Mutant, right in the middle of town!
Comic books elements are starting to become part of reality, and while it could a dream come true for any comic book collector, Skipper will discover soon enough that it will become a real nightmare!
I liked a lot the book, having several surprises and twists, where even when you think that the story already ended, that crafty R.L. Stine shocks you one more final time. Maybe my only complain is that there isn't any reason explaining why it's happening this merging between comic books and real life but definitely one of the best Goosebumps books that I’ve read so far (not the best, but definitely between the top list of those that I’ve been able to read so far).
I bought this in its printed version but I didn’t find that edition here on GR, so I had to use this Kindle edition that I found
This Doom endures!
I bought this in its printed version but I didn’t find that edition here on GR, so I had to use this Kindle edition that I found
This is a Giant-sized (64 pages) one-shot comic book.
Creative Team:
Plot, Script & Art: Sanford Greene & Jonathan Hickman
Colors: Rachelle Rosenberg with Sanford Greene
Lettering: VC’s Joe Caramagna
Cover Art: Sanford Greene & Matthew Wilson
DOOM VS GALACTUS…’NUFF SAID!
I didn’t choose to buy this comic book but actually the guy in charge of comic books in the geek local store where I buy comics, he was the one who chose it for me, he told me that I need that comic and well…
...he was right!...
…in fact the comic book became in demand getting more value, which I don’t complain at all.
The first thing that got me off guard, it was that it’s not the Earth-616 Doctor Doom, since some Doctor Doom in the multiverse, where in his Earth, all heroes and villains faced Galactus…
…and they lost!...
…even space characters like the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Nova Corps, the Shiar Imperial Guard, everybody lost too!...
…only surviving Doctor Doom and Valeria Richards (that’s why it’s impossible to think about this Doom as the one from Earth-616.
Aaah! But Doctor Doom doesn’t survive…
…Doctor Doom endures! (his words, not mine!)
Galactus is on a frenzy hunger and everything in the universe is in peril…
…and obviously the only hope to stop Galactus is Doctor Doom, whom lost the first round but he is still alive (barely thanks to his magic knowledge), but Valeria Richards looks foor him and everything is set for second round!
Something that I found kinda unfair, it's that I noticed that this comic book got so many attention due the involment of Jonathan Hickman (which obviously is one of the best comic book writers in the industry, in special about Fantastic Four and Doctor Doom) and certainly I'm sure that he indeed collaborated in the project, but I think that the real "father" of this comic book was Sanford Greene, since you can notice that he was involved in all departments to make this comic book.
This comic book is highly recommended to any fan of Fantastic Four, in special of Doctor Doom, Valeria Richards and/or Galactus. Also, I have no doubt that this one-shot was published to start to make current boost to the characters of Doctor Doom and Galactus that both are expected to be relevant in the incoming phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
This a self-contained prose novel which is part of the “Nightmare Room” book series
ANOTHER BOOK LINE
I already read quitA fair entertained book
This a self-contained prose novel which is part of the “Nightmare Room” book series
ANOTHER BOOK LINE
I already read quite a bit of books written by R.L. Stine, but usually they had been from Goosebumps or Fear Street, but this is my first book from Nightmare Room, where it seems that it’s a line oriented for kids but even it looks more family friendly (with zero body count) than your regular Goosebumps novel, and something curious is that when you finish the book, you find a section telling in a general way about the supernatural phenomena that it was developed in the story, and you got a feeling that this Nightmare Room is like an attempt of doing a Twilight Zone for kids.
I BET YOU DON’T HAVE A DIARY LIKE THIS ONE!
Alex Smith is young boy with a terrible vice of betting, therefore he tries to do bets against his schoolmates about anything around them with the goal of winning some money and his current objective is buying a guitar to use with his music band formed by his close friends, Chip and Shawn.
Alex has a noisy classmate named Tessa Wayne, that while they are usually antagonist with each other, it’s clear that both have some mutual romantic interest.
Miss Gold, one of his teachers, gave them to Alex (along with the rest of the class but only Tessa shown real interest about it) of making a personal diary to get some extra points in their grades.
Fate gives the “perfect diary” to Alex coming inside of an old desk that his mom gave him, but this diary is not your regular one, since each night after dinner, written with even his own handwriting, Alex finds a page telling him details about what will happen the next day.
First, he thought that it was perfect to place bets and make money, but…
…with each diary entry, more and more dangerous things are predicted and Alex can’t avoid to happen even knowing ahead about it.
While there isn’t any body count in the story, and there is quite mild the tone of horror developed here, the book is quite entertained to read, maybe my major issue with it could be the quite abrupt and odd way to end the story at its climax (nope, I won’t spoil it) but certainly it wasn’t up to the expectations and therefore I couldn’t give it a better rating.
But, certainly I don’t complain about reading the book, since it was entertained and engaging to read.
This a self-contained prose novel which is part of the “Fear Street Relaunch” book series
AWESOME COVER
It’sAnother great success by R.L. Stine!
This a self-contained prose novel which is part of the “Fear Street Relaunch” book series
AWESOME COVER
It’s said that you can’t judge a book for its cover but certainly this novel has an awesome cover that matches with its awesome story.
Usually the books by R.L. Stine have cool covers appealing to read them, but I think that this one can be one of the coolest covers that I’ve seen in the library of R.L. Stine.
In fact, this is my second book in the line of Fear Street Relaunch where the first one, Gimme a K-I-L-L is one of my favorite books by R.L. Stine, and since I had such a blast with this other book of that book series, it seems that Fear Street Relaunch while it took some elements of previous books of the original Fear Street, certainly R.L. Stine make very good improvements, making them a good choice to read.
TRUST NO ONE!
Lisa Brooks is new on Shadyside, her family moved from Shaker Heights, but soon the tragedy hits her when her dad dies in a car accident where her entire family including herself were onboard, she was left with mental trauma and now she is suffering nightmares and scary hallucinations.
As a form of therapy, Dr. Shein, her psychiatrist recommends her as babysitter for Mrs. Brenda Hart, to take care of her sweet kid named Harry, everything seems good, but…
…the Hart Family lives on FEAR STREET!!!
So, obviously something wrong will be happening, especially when Mrs. Hart gives a pivotal instruction to Lisa that Harry can be still awake after 8pm…
…he can’t STAY UP LATE.
Her boyfriend Nate Goodman, and her best friends Saralynn O’Brien and Isaac Brenner are there for her, but…
…can she trust them? Especially when Summer Lawson (former girlfriend of Nate) is appearing eveywhere giving some warnings about Nate.
Does she can trust in anybody in Shadyside?
Since soon enough gruesome murders will start to happen in the front door where Lisa is babysitting, and the worse of all is that the Shadyside Police thinks that Lisa is totally wacko since she is watching horrible monsters walking around but nobody else is watching them.
This is a prose novel from the “Point Horror” book series
I KNOW WHAT YOU WROTE SEVEN YEARS BEFORE, BUT WAIT!
OK, theJust an innocent prank…not!
This is a prose novel from the “Point Horror” book series
I KNOW WHAT YOU WROTE SEVEN YEARS BEFORE, BUT WAIT!
OK, they’re not the same stories in their developments, but it’s impossible when you read this, and not remembering the film I Know What You Did Last Summer, and while this book was written seven years before…
…the film was based on a novel from 1973!
So, I won’t bother to think who copy who, since as I told you, both are different stories in their developments, while both share the premise of a group of teenager causing a car accident and keeping quite about it.
I Know What You Did Last Summer is quite a lot better, since you have slashing and several deaths, and here you only get some creepy pranks, a car chase, but only one death, and not exactly who you’d like to die.
A cool thing is that the author, Richie Tankersley Cusick, is an “old acquaintance”, since I had read some stuff by her several years ago, her work on Buffy, the Vampire Slayer prose novels line. Therefore, that was a cool thing since I didn’t realize until I was already reading this book.
NOT SO INNOCENT PRANKS
Belinda, Hildy and Franks are teenager coming back from a party, and they’re drunk and driving a car, terrible combination, ending in a car accident and they didn’t check out what really happened.
A couple of weeks later, Belinda, one of the only two nice characters, is really stressed out about the accident, and she is hired to be tutor of a creepy kid named Adam, there she meets the Butler (the other nice character), along with the awful Mrs. Thorne (Adam’s stepmother) and Noel (Adam’s brother).
Hildy and Frank are really awful and they are just joking and not a little bit preocupied about who may injured in the car accident, and you’d wish that they could meet some justice about it, but you’re not so lucky.
And while the story lacks of some more blood, still is an engaging reading since the things aren’t what you may think, there are a lot more than meets the eye, and it’s not so easy to pick culprits.