Itβs got to be unfair that I expect Stine books centered around aesthetically scary stuff to be scary, right?
Alas, I do. Any author should know books centered around Halloween are supposed to be scary. Period. But I have yet to read a single Stine book that takes place around Halloween thatβs scary. He has more scary CHRISTMAS books than Halloween ones.
Ugh.
Look, Iβll be honest here: this is a teenage drama and thatβs about it. Not that thereβs anything wrong with that, but heβs demonstrated the ability to write fast, exciting books in the past and this one takes a few more breathers.
I want to read a fever dream of horror from him.
Is it good? Kind of. I donβt like that kids portrayed in divorces are always on the border of losing their minds. Itβs a lame trope. I know when my parents were splitting up, it was nothing short of relief to me because they were obviously not making each other happy.
Now, all truth be told, without my mom to keep my dad grounded with supervision, he did become emotional, petty, and constantly swinging between threatening suicide because I would one day leave him all alone and being abusively neglectful to me for days or weeks on end and there were issues because of that, but those were his issues, not the divorceβs and look at me: Iβm fine.
Mostly.
Anyway, had this book been centered on the drama outside of Halloween, maybe I would have liked it more, but I expected too much and was let down.
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