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.
This is a prose novel from the “Fear Street” original book series AND a sequel to the first book “The Wrong NumbeOperator! The line is dead AGAIN!
This is a prose novel from the “Fear Street” original book series AND a sequel to the first book “The Wrong Number”
FAIR SEQUEL ON FEAR STREET
Since I read The Wrong Number just a few weeks ago and I enjoyed it so much, I thought that it was appropiate to engage reading the sequel, and while it isn’t that good as the first novel, it’s still a fair good reading and it was cool to visit again the characters.
Deena Martinson is still in Shadyside High School, along with her best friend Jade Smith (even there is an extremely cool cameo of Corky Corcoran (heroine of the Fear Street Cheerleaders saga) during a basketball game, she is cheerleading the event), while Deena’s half-brother Chuck is on college…
…but soon that it will change since Chuck isn’t doing that great on college and he’s looking for making a trip to Los Angeles and trying to get into the movie business.
However, Deena and Jade will start to receive mysterious phone calls, threatening their lives, mysterious car chasing them, but…
…that’s not the real problem…
…but that the criminal from the first book is pulling some legal issue on the conviction to get release and be free again!!!
Deena, Jade and Chuck lives are in danger again…
…and they will visit again…
…FEAR STREET…
…for doing a treasure hunt about a large amount of money that it will mess even worse the scenario for our young heroes.
It was an entertaining reading, it was cool to visit again the character from the first book, but there were fewer prank calls, and no murders at all...
...but I have to admit that there is quite a bunch of twists...
...therefore, this isn’t as good as the first book (that I think it was truly great) but if you enjoyed the first novel, you will find engaging to read this sequel....more
Dean Koontz is one of my favorite authors and I’ve read quite a bunch of his novels, specially the firFun and entertained
BENNY, HARPER & SPIKE
Dean Koontz is one of my favorite authors and I’ve read quite a bunch of his novels, specially the first ones, but lately I haven’t engaged much, for no reason in special, I just didn’t, I read the premise of this novel and I felt compelled to read it, since the idea of some monster taking care of the character avoiding that he suffered any harm was cool.
Certainly I received that, but since it’s Dean Koontz, I was expecting a horror story, and I didn’t feel that it was the case (I clicked the tag “horror” for this book because I think it was marketed in that way, but honestly I didn’t feel to be reading a horror story).
Benny Catspaw is really, really, REALLLY, nice guy, but one bad day started to suffer very bad things, losing his job, losing his girlfriend, etc…
Benny received a really, really, REALLY odd heritance in the form a giant humanoid (not quite human but enough for passing as one in the street), named Spike the Craggle (craggle is the name of his species) and they are inmortal beings dedicated to guard a particular person for the entire lifetime of that person and later, he is passed to guard another person (usually a family member chosen by the late person that had the craggle).
Spike is the “bad weather friend” since he explains that anybody can be friend when you have good weather but a real friend is there for you when there is bad weather.
Maybe something key that avoided to feel this as a horror story, it’s that Spike doesn’t kill (he can intimidate, even break several bones, but no killing) and nothing that Spike met was any difficult to deal, so there aren’t real threats to worry about, since you realize that nobody can beat Spike, and Spike is reallly loyal to Benny (since I thought that at some point Spike would get out of control and Benny would need to escape from him, BUT it wasn’t the case either).
Therefore, the novel is about Benny, Spike (that he doesn’t appear until the novel is almost reaching the half of it) and Harper (a smart & gorgeous waitress (romantic interest for Benny), all three in a trip to get payback from all people that harmed Benny in some way.
I enjoyed A LOT MORE the novel, also by Koontz, Life Expectancy (actually it’s my second favorite novel by Koontz, right below of Phantoms) which it’s quite similar in the style of humor, but quite more compelling in the area of horror, since there is a homicidal psycho clown (you can’t compete with killer clowns) right behind the main couple in that book.
So, this novel at hand, it’s fun and entertained, but hardly what you’d consider a typical horror novel.
This is a prose novel from the “Fear Street” original book series
PRANKS & MURDERS
This is a really good book by R.L.Operator! The line is dead!
This is a prose novel from the “Fear Street” original book series
PRANKS & MURDERS
This is a really good book by R.L. Stine, and I have to say that it’s one of the best that I’ve read written by him, not only from the Fear Street series but from his work in general.
Deena Martinson has a special phone (not, it’s a smart phone since this was written in the good ol’ days of 1990) with memory buttons and stuff, a gift from his dad that works in the Phone Company of Shadyside. First, she is teased by her good friend Jade Smith to make innocent pranks making anonymous sexy calls to cute boys, but when her half-brother, Chuck finds out about the prank calls, the level of pranks escalates to a risky one, making a dumb call doing a fake bomb threat…
…still it wasn’t anything to put them in real hazzard…
…until Chuck (that he was living in another city until some days ago) didn’t respect the danger of messing with…
…FEAR STREET!!!…
…Chuck makes a random call to a number of a house in the infamous Fear Street with such bad luck that he, her sister, Deena and her friend Jade, get involved in a murder!
They didn’t do it, but nobody believes them, and soon enough Chuck will be arrested and it’s up to Deena and Jade to find clues of what really happened…
…but…
…the real murderer is after them!
There are several things that I did see them coming quite sooner than the character were able to deduce, but still it was a gripping reading, entertained, intense and fast paced, that I enjoyed a lot.
This softcover TPB recollects “Stray Dogs” Free Comic Book Day Prologue plus “Stray Dogs: Dog Days” #1-2.
Creative TeaA worthy companion anthology.
This softcover TPB recollects “Stray Dogs” Free Comic Book Day Prologue plus “Stray Dogs: Dog Days” #1-2.
Creative Team:
Creator & Writer: Toni Fleecs
Creator & Illustrator: Trish Forstner
Colorist: Brad Simpson
UNTOLD TALES
Due the huge success of Stray Dogs, it was only logical trying to capitalize in some way a little more of that success, and definitely it was wise and worthy to publish this two-parter comic book (along with the prologue promoted during the Free Comic Book Day), and in that way, telling short tales (each can be of a couple of pages, maybe four at best) but quit enough to tell how the most of th dogs in the original story came in possession of the terrible man.
It’s interesting that at least sometimes, the man wasn’t successful in his insidious attacks, or having to choose a different victim since the originally planned was able to repel the attack.
It’s not that solid as the first TPB, since it’s a recollection of very short separated stories, but still it’s a fair and relevant companion book to any reader that reads the first TPB and wanting to know how was the lives of the dogs before meeting the awful man…
…even there is a story telling events after the ending to the original story, so it’s quite important to read too.
Creator & Illustrator: TrisShocking modern masterpiece!
This softcover TPB recollects “Stray Dogs” #1-5.
Creative Team:
Creator & Writer: Toni Fleecs
Creator & Illustrator: Trish Forstner
Colorist: Brad Simpson
NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART
This can be easily, one of the darkest stories that I ever read, specially in a comic book, while I’ve read several graphic novels oriented for adults, definitely this is one that it’s not for everybody since it can be totally understandable that it can shock the sensibility of many people, even I was shocked in several moments.
The story is cleverly showing most of the most popular breeds of dogs, obviously choosing several iconic breeds used in dogs from popular media like movies and TV, therefore even if you haven’t dogs of your own, it’s impossible that you won’t click with at least one of two of the canine characters in the story, totally fitting described like…
…Silence of the Lambs meets All Dogs go to Heaven.
Warning has been made.
MEMENTO FUGIT
I don’t know how scientific supported is the element developed here that dogs have problems with the short-term memory, therefore, they depend of routine to keep in mind what is happening around, but if something dramatically changed, they can soon enough to forget who was their previous owner and accepted the new owner as the only owner that they ever had.
However, it’s something that you have to accept in this story since it’s the key of how the narrative works.
MAN ISN’T DOG’S BEST FRIEND
This very dark story, drawn with a very cute style (giving even more shocking impact to the darkness of events here), a man has a lot of dogs, and they thought that they been rescued from streets and therefore they are grateful with their owner, since he always is giving them food and shelter.
Sophie, a new dog is trying to get used to the new environment, and she doesn’t have recollection of her previous life before being in the man’s house. Rusty, one of the many dogs in the house is self-appointed to tell her how things works in the house. Eveything is working until…
…Sophie finds a red scarf that she at once remembers as property of her true female owner…
…therefore, since that moment, you know that something really bad happened…
…and the worst of all is that Sophie’s past isn’t unique…
…but an insidous serial pattern to be feared…
…and brace yourself since not everybody will survive this story!
Don’t be confused due the cuteness of the artwork, this is without a doubt a horror story, and definitely something not easily to digest.
But definitely a daring and bold masterpiece of modern graphic novels.
This review is bilingual. You will find first the review in English and after that, you will find the rInteresting sequel! – ¡Interesante secuela!
This review is bilingual. You will find first the review in English and after that, you will find the review in Spanish.
Esta crítica es bilingüe. Usted encontrará primero la crítica en Inglés y luego de esta, usted encontrará la crítica en Español.
REVIEW IN ENGLISH
This book is a sequel to a book that I didn't know existed, since what I watched was the film adaptation made by Netflix that I really liked and I'm not surprised that they will soon film the sequel as well.
The first installment is called The Criminal Readers' Club, which I saw in streaming movie format for Netflix and which I loved, since it is a film from Spain, which pays an excellent tribute to the genre of Horror Slasher, especially iconic films like Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer.
In this sequel, Angela Kuntz (obvious tribute to the genius Dean Koontz) and her boyfriend Nando return, where Angela is now a famous author thanks to the fact that she wrote a novel narrating the events that occurred in the first installment. And the plot takes place in a workshop located on an island where a group of young writing students will receive tutoring from Angela, but will also receive a visit from the Killer Clown who is once again hungry for blood!
CRITICA EN ESPAÑOL
Este libro es una secuela a un libro que no sabía que existía, ya que lo que ví fue la adaptación a película hecha por Netflix que me gustó mucho y que no me extraña que pronto filmen la secuela también.
La primera entrega se llama El Club de los Lectores Criminales, la cual ví en formato de película streaming para Netflix y que me encantó, ya que es una película de España, la cual hace un excelente homenaje al género de Terror Slasher, sobre todo a filmes icónicos como Scream y I Know What You Did Last Summer.
En esta secuela, regresan Angela Kuntz (obvio tributo al genio Dean Koontz) y su novio Nando, donde ahora Angela es una afamada autora gracias a que escribió una novela narrando los eventos ocurrido en la primera entrega. Y la trama se desarrolla en un taller ubicado en una isla donde un grupo de jóvenes estudiantes de escritura recibirán la tutoría de Angela, pero además recibirán la visita del Payaso Asesino que nuevamente tiene hambre de sangre!
This is a prose novel from the “Fear Street” original book series
BITTER HONEY
I decided to read this one, basically beWith friends like these…!
This is a prose novel from the “Fear Street” original book series
BITTER HONEY
I decided to read this one, basically because it was set on Xmas time and it was the right moment to read it…
…but I didn’t anticípate that the book was actually quite good!
A cool detail is that Reva Dalby (main character in Silent Night trilogy (from Fear Street Super Chillers)) is mentioned in a dialogue in the middle of the novel, since you can’t have Christmas in Shadyside without having Reva Dalby!
Now, the story is…
Becka Norwood has two best friends: Lilah and Trish and everything was fine until…
…Honey Perkins returned to Shadyside and she decided that she was Becka’s all-time best friend…
…not matter that Becka didn’t remember her!
Actually, Becka, Lilah and Trish had to check out their old school yearbooks to get foggy memories that they actually shared some classes with her many years ago.
Honey got in Becka’s life by force and soon enough Honey started to become a “clone” of Becka copying her hairdo, stealing pieces of jewelry, buying the same clothes, etc…
And the worst is that Honey isn’t the one to share a friend, therefore Lilah and Trish are in serious danger due being Becka’s real friends.
But, not only them, but Eric, former Becka’s boyfriend, but also Bill, actual Becka’s boyfriend. Nobody around Becka’s life is safe…
…not even Becka’s sanity!
The book doesn’t have a nice ending but actually quite disturbing, however since it’s a horror story, I think that it works out and therefore it hasn’t anything to envy to your regular Stephen King’s or Ramsey Campbell’s horror novels.
I never expected that it would be that entertaining with a real scary ending, so I definitely recommended it.
This is a prose novel, from the “Ghosts of Fear Street” book series
CHRISTMAS AT SHADYSIDE
The first cool thiChristmas Carol…R.L. Stine’s style!
This is a prose novel, from the “Ghosts of Fear Street” book series
CHRISTMAS AT SHADYSIDE
The first cool thing here is that many of the story is located at “Dalby’s Department Store” that it possess a strong connection with xmas since it was introduced in the Silent Night book trilogy from “Fear Street Super Chillers” (also it appears in the novel Gimme a KILL but kinda an alternate version).
One thing that I didn’t expect is that the main character would be a pre-teen boy in middle school, specifically Shadyside Middle School, since usually Fear Street novels use teenagers and Goosebumps employ kids, therefore, it seems that Ghosts of Fear Street covers in the middle of those.
Kenny Frobisher is a naughty boy and not only at xmas but basically the whole year and the worst of all is that he isn’t realized how mean he is and how he can hurt other people with his untasty pranks. His younger sister Kristy and his classmate Timmy Smathers are too frequent targets of his cruel pranks and lies.
Therefore, by the power of Dickens, the three ghosts of Christmas, they will make their act showing the past, present and future of Kenny.
I like it a lot the reimagining of the Ghost of Christmas Past (I won’t ge tinto details to avoid spoilers) and I guess that you don’t mess much with the expectations of the Ghost of Christmas Future, but I think that while it wasn’t that bad, I wasn’t much impressed with the redesign of the Ghost of Christmas Present, it was adequate but hardly as cool as the Past Ghost.
In any case, this is a novel quick to read with a cool reimagination of the classic tale of A Christmas Carol with the unique touch of R.L. Stine, even with a totally unexpected twist at the end of the book.
This a prose novel which is part of the original “Goosebumps” book series
IT WAS ABOUT TIME…
Since I’ve been Slappy’s story begins here (kinda)!
This a prose novel which is part of the original “Goosebumps” book series
IT WAS ABOUT TIME…
Since I’ve been reading several Goosebumps and Fear Street books by R.L. Stine, it was about time to engage to read the novels focused on Slappy, easily the most famous character created by R.L. Stine, where not even the Witch Sarah Fear comes any close to the notority of Slappy.
Slappy has been present in at least one book (if not more) in all Goosebumps book spin-off series since his debut on the original one and he even has a spin-off series named after him, Slappyworld where he is the main character in several books there.
I won’t read them one after the other, but it’s my plan to read all the books focused on Slappy between other novels in my TBR list, between the few days remaining this year (2023) and the next one (2024).
NOT THE MAIN VILLAIN STILL
In this first book of the Slappy saga, he still isn’t the villain, just having one line of dialogue at the end of the book, since the evil living dummy here is Mr. Wood.
The twins Kris and Lindy Powell are a couple of teenager sisters and once Lindy found a ventriloquist dummy in the garbage, Mr. Wood, Kris wanted her own dummy too and after a while his dad bought her Slappy, that it’s really important to mention that Kris Powell is the one naming Slappy as such (at least in this first origin story (it seems that in the latest book (so far) Slappy, Beware!, his origin is changed) not to mention his new origin in the Disney+ TV series).
Lindy found a paper with some strange words and after saying them aloud, Mr. Wood got animated but it’s only Kris who knows about this (not to mention some initial Lindy’s pranks).
The book is entertained, but Mr. Wood didn’t do anything really evil and well, he’s not Slappy, therefore, this is a book relevant to read but hardly it’s the real beginning of Slappy’s evil run.
This a prose novel which is part of the original “Goosebumps” book series
NOT IN MY PLANS BUT…
Honestly, I didn’t plan to Charming decent story!
This a prose novel which is part of the original “Goosebumps” book series
NOT IN MY PLANS BUT…
Honestly, I didn’t plan to read this novel, since the title wasn’t that appealing or promising (even it was kinda disgusting) but since it was one of the chosen ones to be adapted into the new Disney+ TV series, well, I decided to give it a chance, and it was a nice surprise since it isn’t that scary but it’s quite charming and definitely the R.L. Stine’s narrative style was totally entertaining.
NOT BOOKWORMS BUT WORMS IN A BOOK!
Todd Barstow has an odd hobbie and that one is to collect worms and currently his life runs around that topic and since the school science fair is coming, obviously his project will be about worms, but he didn’t expect that somebody else would be choosing a too similar project involving worms too!
Patrick Mackay isn’t any worm freeky like Todd but for some reason he chooses worms too for the science fair project.
Danny Fletcher is Todd’s best friend and he isn’t interested in worms either but due their friendship, he helps Todd to collect worms from a site in the middle of school’s baseball field, nor Danny or Toddd imagine that that it’s kinda the worst place that they could select to do that!
Regina Barstow is Todd’s sister and she loves to make pranks to her brother, but she won’t be the main problem of Todd in this story, but something big, deep hidden in the school’s baseball field.
The story isn’t scary but disgusting due the topic of worms since I can’t imagine much people who may like worms, but definitely it’s smartly written since in many times you’ll be fooled with some twists here and there, and the narrative is entertaining and charming, even the final scene, you won't be sure if it's a dream (or nightmare) but something really happening...
...so if you are looking for an unusual book in the Gooosebumps series, this one may satisfy you.
This a prose novel which is part of the original “Goosebumps” book series
ONE OF THE BEST IN THE SERIES
I hadn’t plan to read thiTimely awesome!
This a prose novel which is part of the original “Goosebumps” book series
ONE OF THE BEST IN THE SERIES
I hadn’t plan to read this book anytime soon since it didn’t figure in any top list that I researched about top R.L. Stine’s book, BUT…
…since it was one of the chosen ones to be adapted in the new Disney+ Goosebumps TV series, well, I thought that it was good idea to give it a chance…
…and I am totally glad that I decided to read it, since it’s one of the best Goosebumps novels that I ever read so far.
The story has a great premise with a compelling development and a shocking ending.
TIME TO READ THIS!
Michael Webster is a 12-year old kid with a younger sister, Tara, and I can tell you that Tara is one of most annoying characters that I ever read (so far) in a R.L. Stine book.
Michael’s dad got a Cuckoo clock that he always admired in an Antique shop but he wasn’t able to get it since it was quite expensive, but finaly his time comes and he got in a incredible price. Michael’s mom isn’t too thrilled about the clock but it remains in the house.
Since it’s a priceable antique, Michael’s dad told Michael and Tara not to touch the clock.
In the meantime, Tara made Michael’s life miserable messing with his stuff, making him mean pranks, and even ruining his birthday party,…
…and the worst of it, Michael’s parents aren’t aware of Tara’s behaviour and they think that Tara is the perfect sweet good girl.
Therefore, Michael decides to make something to the clock with the goal of Tara could take the blame…
…but Michael doesn’t know that this cuckoo clock isn’t normal and his actions will put him in a desperate situation turning worse and worse with each passing day…
…and running to a shocking ending! One of the darkest ending that I ever read in a Goosebump book!
This a prose novel which is part of the original “Goosebumps” book series
KINDA WEIRD ENDING BUT IT WORKS
Don’t worry I won’t sSpooky good tale!
This a prose novel which is part of the original “Goosebumps” book series
KINDA WEIRD ENDING BUT IT WORKS
Don’t worry I won’t spoil the ending, I just want to mention that it’s kinda weird (for not saying quite weird!) but in a Twilight Zone kind of weird, therefore, I think that if you give it a chance to the book, it’s very likely that you’ll enjoy it as much as I do.
Since I have to say that it’s totally unexpected (but once you know, you can notice some clever clues) and even there is a final twist left in the air that it adds even more spooky factor to the already entertained story.
At some moment, I thought that the cover was misleading about the quantity of Jack-o-lanterns monsters but don’t worry, since at the right time, you’ll have plenty of monsters, even more to the quantity displayed on the cover.
THE JACK-O-LANTERNS ARE COMING!
Drew Brockman has three friends, Walker Parkes and the twins Shane & Shana Martin, all of them love Halloween festivities but there are two characters that I have to say that they are two of the most unbearable characters that I have read in a Goosebumps story (so far), Tabitha Weiss and Lee Winston, and for two Halloweens in a row, they managed to ruin the fun of celebrating the season of carved pumpkins and free candies, making jokes of bad taste.
Drew and his friends have tried to take revenge but it has been impossible to have success.
Therefore the third is the charm, and Drew thinks that he figured it out the perfect joke but the thing is that you won’t know if the joke is oriented to the right people or even if it’s a joke at all.
I won’t say more, but if you’re looking for charming Halloween tale to read, this one is quite entertained, quick to cover and with unexpected ending.
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