I hate to say it, but this book was just okay. There wasn’t really anything special about it one way or another. I actually read it, then read another Fear Street, and completely forgot the title of this one.
I did remember that the cover is pretty bitchin’.
You know, I will say that I thought I had it figured out. One of the characters is into film and it’s a running theme throughout the book. He’s making a movie about a prom queen that gets killed while the prom queen gets killed in real life.
Or DOES she?
She doesn’t. 
Anyway, I thought that the twist reveal would be that the whole book was the movie and the guy was so into movies that he went full meta and made a movie about making a movie about a prom queen dying when she actually dies.
But instead, the twist is that the boyfriend’s side piece was being manipulated for a humiliating video. There are clues that SOMETHING untoward is happening but this still felt pretty gross when the reveal happens. Let me tell you: it doesn’t endear characters to have them be the “victim,” when they’re taping a girl while they mess with her emotions just for a laugh.
It felt cheap AND sleazy.
Definitely not my favorite Fear Street and it feels like I’ve been on a tear of subpar-to-mediocre Fear Streets, but that’s what happens when you have SO many entries into a series and you’re RL Stine - a guy who has no qualms about saying he’s in it for the money. I mean, he shifted to horror away from comedy SPECIFICALLY for the money.
And, once you know he came from comedy, so much of his writing structure makes more sense. He definitely uses the same setup/punchline approach to his books but these jokes? These jokes are gross.
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