Silent Night

A quick read. I appreciated that the story wasn’t a rehash of the first book. The blurb on the back is misleading. The main plot is about a couple of people planning to kidnap Reva for a ransom. The back makes it sound like a psycho killer is after her.

Often re-read by Fear Street fans and strongly remembered - one, due to the cover, being a super-chiller, having two sequels - but also Reva is like the meannest main character RL Stine has ever written. Seriously, this gal's a narcissist who he claims develops feelings at the end, but I'm thinking incurable sociopath and that the author is being optimistic. Either way, fun revisit here, mainly through Reva's POV but also a few others at time when needed, such as her poor family.

Not bad, but not the best Fear Street Super Chiller out there. I think the book going from Reva to Pam was a mistake. It felt like two stories got folded into one and neither of them were told very well.

"Silent Night #1" (yes dear readers there are two more to go) follows teen Reva. Reva's father is very rich and she doesn't have to work if she doesn't want to. However, she's helping out at one of his department stores during the Christmas break. Reva uses this time to play "pranks" on other kids from Shadyside High. But someone seems out to get Reva and things keep happening to her. When a body shows up, it looks like someone is out to get her.

Reva is awful. I love that Stine has you hate her throughout the book until she gets the show more realization that no one likes her. Pam let's everyone step all over her. I wanted to feel badly for her, but she gets involved in something that had me questioning her critical thinking skills.

The book's flow slows down a lot I thought. We just jump back and forth between Reva and Pam and you start to wonder what is going on.

The ending was sloppy in my opinion. I just let it go though. show less

More of a mystery rather than a slasher, but I guess you could say that about most of R.L. Stine's books. A few twists and turns that surprised me, mainly because there were just So. Many. Suspects.

The MC is the most annoying character ever, ever in a Fear Street novel; evvvvveeeerrrr. Like, I didn't want her to survive. She is stuck up, spoiled, her hair is so 90's, she has her own phone line; just ew. I cannot believe there were 3 (three, tres, trois) books about this girl. And she doesn't really change over the course of the books either. Maybe some, but not enough for me to like her.

I will admit this may not be one my best reviews, but I just had to get this off my chest. This character! Thank you for listening.

Possible Spoiler Alert:

As in the third one (and I'm sure in the second when I reread this), Reva is a character I really want to actually die. Her tiny bit of backstory does not make up for her nastiness, and she's one of the few characters I actually remembered- for being so awful. I didn't guess the ending to this one, and I was actually surprised that Robb was Foxxy.

I thoroughly enjoyed Christmas horror, so it being a written by R.L. Stine made it even more so.