Heh. I needed to find something that began with the letter “G” for a bingo book game I am playing. And honestly. I thought this took place in school (it’s been decades since I read this one!) and then realized well at least it fits the “G” part since the whole book took place over the summer holiday. Do you all remember the “Fear Street Super Chiller” books? It was similar to the “The Baby-sitter Club’s Super Specials”? All I can tell you is that I used to adore when the super chiller and super specials came out since it equaled a longer book and I could take most of the day and that night reading to my heart’s content. I am still shocked I was allowed to read this since this was the cover art back then too from what I recall.
That said, nostalgia is a funny thing. This was really not that great reading at the age of 45. I had some questions for the teens in this one just based on did you really do this and not think of it? The biggest/best thing about this book to me at the age of 12 or 13 I think when I read this was the ending. It’s still a gut punch. But not enough to raise this past a 2 star read.
“Goodnight Kiss” follows two vampires named Gabri and Jessica who are running low on “nectar”. Yes, I still recall at the age I was going, can’t you all just say blood? Okay then. And then for some weird reason they get in a competition about who will win said nectar and who they plan on selecting for this and how they get to choose each other’s victims (two hapless teens named April and Todd). Who knew that somehow these vampires were worse than the Twilight characters combined. And of course, here enters Fear Street, AKA Shadyside, everyone should have moved way before now.
As many other reviewers noted I saw, you better like the word nectar, it’s said about every other page. I don’t think I noticed as a kid, as an adult it was painful. Honestly the kids in the unknown are not that smart, this was written in the 90s so the dialogue at times is downright painful. The flow wasn’t that great for this one either which I thought was a shame.
This one though was kind of gory for Stine. And I can just say, this man was never afraid of killing off characters, so that still holds true. I just say again why I think many people loved this one so much was the ending. It was a real shocker to teen me at the time. And the follow up to this a surprise since usually Stine didn’t really do that much unless it was one of his Cheerleader stories.