Bad Blood

Hello Neighbor #4

by Carly Anne West

The Hello Neighbor story takes a twisted turn in this all-new prequel series, based on the hit horror video game from tinyBuild! Aaron Peterson has never had it easy. As the son of a famed and eccentric theme park designer, his life has been one move after the next as his father chases new jobs in countries around the world. Aaron has watched rides and attractions of all kinds start with a blueprint on his father's desk, and end up a towering, larger-than-life creation to marvel park-goers. That is... until something really, really bad happened on his dad's latest job in Germany. Something worse than the accidents that had happened before. Something that Aaron and his family are desperately trying to forget. With the family on the run from legal trouble and out of money, Aaron's dad takes a job designing a theme park in his hometown of Raven Brooks. The strange small town holds its own share of secrets... including some that Aaron's father would prefer stay buried. This explosive new prequel trilogy explores the rise and fall of the Peterson family like never before! Found documents throughout help readers unwind the many mysteries at the heart of the hit game.

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Fiction, Childrens, Mystery Thriller, Video Games, Middle Grade

240 pages, Paperback

First published December 26, 2019

About the author

Carly Anne West is the author of several works of spooky fiction for readers of all ages, with titles including The Murmurings and The Bargaining (Simon Pulse), and the forthcoming series The Ghosts of Nameless Island (Andrews McMeel). Her works also include the Hello Neighbor series (Scholastic), based on the fan favorite video game, as well as contributions to the NYT Bestselling Five Nights at Freddy's literary universe (Scholastic), based on the wildly popular video game of the same name. Carly holds an MFA in English and Writing from Mills College and lives in Seoul, Korea with her family.

Reviews

[Coleccionista de finales tristes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Este libro es el cuatro pero bien podría ser el uno. Cada libro resuelve y añade otro misterio. Tendré que esperar al quinto.

[Christina Pilkington · Rating 4 out of 5]

So far my 13 (now 14) year old daughter has read all 4 books in this series out loud to me. It's her favorite series of books! She's pretty obsessed with them and the game :). So our reading times have become some of my favorite times for us to spend together. That is probably going to biased my opinions of the books just a little, to be perfectly honest.

That being said, I enjoyed this 4th book in the series the most so far! I think I would have enjoyed it even with just reading it on my own. The mysterious elements were more interesting in this book, and I enjoyed the character development much more.

Highly recommend for middle grade readers who love light horror and mystery stories.

[Synia · Rating 5 out of 5]

+2 stars: to be honest I wasnt sure what they could possibly do after the insane ending of book 3. Anime flashback right before a character dies on steroids was not what I was expecting but it works here.
+1 star: Halloween! 🎃 👻
+1 star: my son, my progeny, my heir apparent
+1 star: the scariest thing I've ever seen ride malfunctionwise is from a water park so it tracks that the disaster the Petersons were running from was a water ride. Good research. Based on a true story but just different enough to not be disrespectful.

[Neri · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's great!

I chose this rating because I really like the book and I would recommend it to anyone who likes suspense\thriller. (Read the 1st three before this one!) I liked the suspense! I didn't really dislike anything.

[Patrice · Rating 2 out of 5]

It might have been better if I had read the books in order, but as it stands, the prologue is never addressed later in the book and the end isn't an ending but an abrupt stop in the middle of things. Also, the whole thing is excessively angsty.

[Erin Mendoza · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read aloud with Andrew. As always, leaves you on a cliffhanger. He enjoys this series.

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of build-up, vague answers.

[Logan R. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked it. It was really good. I like how C.A. West put this into Aaron's perspective. These books are amazing.

[Nyx_The_Bookworm · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing! I love how Carly added Aaron's point of view, it really develops the whole mystery.

[natisafrog · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was so confused at some parts but overall a good book!

[Dani Jenkins · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty spooky for a kids' book. The cliff hanger at the end was unexpected and left me wanting to read the next one.

[George Remy · Rating 5 out of 5]

good book

[Sophie Hynes · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book,this book right here the last 3 chapter OMG PERFECT JUST PERFECT

[Kailey · Rating 4 out of 5]

A review in five sentences or less...

Families with secrets are tense. Therapy is probably needed. I came for the kid and I stayed for the birds. What's next?

[Lo Szeged · Rating 2 out of 5]

Inconsistent with the previous books, sorry but that kind of writing error is a big no for me.
The story is supposed to be a prequel, and earlier books establish an event to be 5 years before it. This acts as if the characters are the same age as they were in previous despite the timeline being 5 or 6 years in the past. :/

[Maleeya · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed reading this book for various reasons...
1. It was the perfect level of dialogue and perfect amount of pages for my skill level.
2. It was very interesting because you're seeing a kid moving from germany, and adapting to a small town he just moved into.
3. It ended on a cliffhanger so it got me hooked to read more!
4. And, it was filled with awesome mysteries!

[Jamie K · Rating 5 out of 5]

Holy crap

This book was amazing because it was really captivating and it was just a fantastically written book that i thought might have been even better that the others