Review: A NEW FEAR by R.L. Stine

 

Part one was rather intense with afrantic escape from a blazing asylum by a desperate woman and her infant son.Freed, her mission was to escape the curse of the Fear family. The details inthe scenes were much grosser and bloodier than you would expect from a typicalR.L. Stine story. In fact, it feels more like Stephen King. I must admit that Ireally didn’t care for the gruesome details like the rats biting off the eyelids. Yuck! I wanted to get through Part 1 so I could get to Part 2 to see ifit would keep my interest. So far this was just okay. This young mother seemedto be like a freaky Carrie with all those scary powers.

 

In part 2, the boy is fully grownand is reunited with his family amulet that gave his mother all those evilpowers. He will find out who he really was and who is father was. The last partcontinues the story okay as the son learns he is a Fear. The rest of the readwas too long (I had to skip parts just to get through it.)

 

I was curious to see how thisended though. So that is how Fear Street was re-built and how it opened up allthose Fear Street stories. This was okay.

 

Rating:3 stars