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Spinetinglers #24
Your Turn - To Scream!
Michael thinks he's truly gotten a bargain after he buys an old board game at a garage sale. He begins to play, throwing the die, and suddenly he is transported to a dark jungle. Surely he must be dreaming. But when he returns to his room, he looks down at the board and his playing piece has moved onto the jungle square. Who is going to be the winner when the game ends?
124 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1997
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September 2, 2021
I’m just gonna say this. Out of my many many years of being a children’s horror reader and eventual collector. I had high hopes going into this. This series is ghostwritten by various authors. M.T. Coffin is just a pen name (a cheeky one at that). This particular book was written by Kathleen Duey. I mean no respect to Kathleen when I say this, but this has to be one of the worst books I have ever read in the kids horror genre.
There’s nothing much to say other than 8-10 page chapters of nothing but filler exposition, a dropped eerie concept about an old woman with a grudge, and irritating to follow and mind-numbingly repetitive “where’s the board game” throughout the first half. Wait, not done. It gets even LAMER AND MORE BORING in the second half when the protagonist, his older brother, and his reluctant friend get sucked into what’s best described as a poor mans Jumanji. Which supposedly had different biomes that these pieces lived in. Only to have the entire second half of the book take place in only one biome. And the resolution to defeating each “boss” LITERALLY is the same exact thing over and over again. Not to boot, when they finally get out of this board game. The lamest ending to an already brain dead concept with the game pieces that are “alive” happens. Let’s just say, water is wet lol. Anyways, after all of that frustration. This book has the audacity to give one of the most cliche endings to an otherwise painfully abysmal and miserable of a book as this was. That older woman with a grudge never reappears after she’s in maybe 1 or 2 chapters in the first half of the book. And we never found out anything about her reason of selling the protagonist the board game specifically. I guess she held a grudge on a kid who hasn’t pranked her in like 5 or 6 years.
Nonsensical from the jump, boring and void of life. When the book does finally jump into a board game come to life (yes that’s what this book is about essentially) it doesn’t happen until like page 80. And this is a 120 page book mind you. I urge anyone with a sense of reason to avoid reading this book. It is nowhere near the magnitude of awesomeness as other Spinetinglers entries. You’re better off reading some bottom tier Goosebumps than reading this. Easily can be labeled a poorly thought out and executed book. The only reason why I rated a 1 star is because I curve kids horror books.
There’s nothing much to say other than 8-10 page chapters of nothing but filler exposition, a dropped eerie concept about an old woman with a grudge, and irritating to follow and mind-numbingly repetitive “where’s the board game” throughout the first half. Wait, not done. It gets even LAMER AND MORE BORING in the second half when the protagonist, his older brother, and his reluctant friend get sucked into what’s best described as a poor mans Jumanji. Which supposedly had different biomes that these pieces lived in. Only to have the entire second half of the book take place in only one biome. And the resolution to defeating each “boss” LITERALLY is the same exact thing over and over again. Not to boot, when they finally get out of this board game. The lamest ending to an already brain dead concept with the game pieces that are “alive” happens. Let’s just say, water is wet lol. Anyways, after all of that frustration. This book has the audacity to give one of the most cliche endings to an otherwise painfully abysmal and miserable of a book as this was. That older woman with a grudge never reappears after she’s in maybe 1 or 2 chapters in the first half of the book. And we never found out anything about her reason of selling the protagonist the board game specifically. I guess she held a grudge on a kid who hasn’t pranked her in like 5 or 6 years.
Nonsensical from the jump, boring and void of life. When the book does finally jump into a board game come to life (yes that’s what this book is about essentially) it doesn’t happen until like page 80. And this is a 120 page book mind you. I urge anyone with a sense of reason to avoid reading this book. It is nowhere near the magnitude of awesomeness as other Spinetinglers entries. You’re better off reading some bottom tier Goosebumps than reading this. Easily can be labeled a poorly thought out and executed book. The only reason why I rated a 1 star is because I curve kids horror books.
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