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A young actress draws a sinister spotlight in this spooky installment in R.L. Stine's bestselling Fear Street series--now with a fresh new look! Selena has it all. She just scored the lead in her high school play, and everyone adores her. So when she starts receiving dead flowers from a secret "admirer" named The Sun, she just assumes it's a harmless fan. But Selena soon realizes that The Sun is serious...dead serious. First, her understudy is injured in a suspicious accident. Then, a show more speeding car almost kills her! Selena doesn't know what this psycho wants. All she knows is that her number-one fan has become her number-one nightmare. show lessTags
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I can't help it, the Fear Street books are some of my favorite reads. Maybe because I will forever be amused that people live anywhere near Fear Street or Fear Woods. And that the FBI has not just come in and taken over since the Shadyside Police don't seem to have the ability to solve crimes without a teen coming to the solution first.
"Secret Admirer" follows Selena, a high school senior at Shadyside High School. Selena we find out is the best drama student at the school and has successfully finished a role and is now ready to audition for Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. However, someone called "The Sun" wants to make sure that Selena does not try out for the play. He keeps warning her that someone will pay if she doesn't back out of the show more play. But Selena just thinks it's someone messing with her, until the accidents start and someone is murdered.
As one of my friends on Twitter says this series is so bonkers but you got to love it. The reasons behind some of these murders are sometimes the most petty things ever. And this one I thought was no different, but with a slight twist to it. I liked following Selena and of course her fear that her ex (Danny) her close friend (Jake) and her new love interest (Eddy) may be The Sun.
The other characters are given bare bones back development (come on, at this point you know how Stine writes so it's not a shocker). I will say though that Stine writing Eddy as way way too obsessed with Selena did not endear the character to me. He was creepy.
These books are always a fast read, and I do enjoy reading them at this time of the year when the days are getting shorter and the evenings longer. This was a great spin again with Fear Street.
I read this for Halloween Bingo 2021, "Trick or Treat" square. show less
"Secret Admirer" follows Selena, a high school senior at Shadyside High School. Selena we find out is the best drama student at the school and has successfully finished a role and is now ready to audition for Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. However, someone called "The Sun" wants to make sure that Selena does not try out for the play. He keeps warning her that someone will pay if she doesn't back out of the show more play. But Selena just thinks it's someone messing with her, until the accidents start and someone is murdered.
As one of my friends on Twitter says this series is so bonkers but you got to love it. The reasons behind some of these murders are sometimes the most petty things ever. And this one I thought was no different, but with a slight twist to it. I liked following Selena and of course her fear that her ex (Danny) her close friend (Jake) and her new love interest (Eddy) may be The Sun.
The other characters are given bare bones back development (come on, at this point you know how Stine writes so it's not a shocker). I will say though that Stine writing Eddy as way way too obsessed with Selena did not endear the character to me. He was creepy.
These books are always a fast read, and I do enjoy reading them at this time of the year when the days are getting shorter and the evenings longer. This was a great spin again with Fear Street.
I read this for Halloween Bingo 2021, "Trick or Treat" square. show less
this book was about this girl and this other girl. the other girl for revenge sends her bad groose things like a dead rat smelly roses to her house and school locker. but this booh is good it tells you to to trust any one that easy.
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R. L. Stine was born in Columbus Ohio on October 8, 1943. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1965. Under the name Jovial Bob Stine, he wrote dozens of joke books and humor books for kids including How to Be Funny, 101 Silly Monster Jokes, and Bozos on Patrol. He also created Bananas, a zany humor magazine which he worked on for ten years. show more His first teen horror novel, Blind Date, was published in 1986 under the name R. L. Stine. His other works include Beach House, Hit and Run, The Babysitter, The Girlfriend, the Goosebumps series, and the Fear Street series. He also wrote an adult novel entitled Superstitious. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Secret Admirer
- Original title
- Secret Admirer
- Original publication date
- 1996-03-01
- People/Characters
- Selena Goodrich; Katy Jenson; Danny Morris; Jake Jacoby; Eddy Martin; Alison Pearson (show all 13); Mr. Riordan; Mrs. Goodrich; Simone Perry; Judy Mason; Susie; Mr. Jacoby; Mrs. Jacoby
- Important places
- Shadyside, Ohio, USA; Shadyside High; Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA; North Hills; Waynesbridge Junior College; Sam's (show all 8); Waynesbridge; Fear Street
- First words
- Dear Selena, Your name means "moon."
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"This may only be Act One!"
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- Fiction and Literature, Teen, Horror, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .S86037 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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