This is a Fear Street book that breaks the mold by not starting with a first person narration by a murderer and also doesn’t ever feature any menacing phone calls. There is a prologue featuring our main character sleepwalking, in case you weren’t sure why the book was called that. It’s also got cover art by an artist who may have read the book, or at least part of it. (I’m going to pause to say I adore the covers on this series. The last […]
Letting Others Love You
The fault in our stars is the story of Hazel who meets Augustus. Now Hazel may be a cancer patient and Augustus may be an amputee (as Wikipedia succinctly puts it), but this is not a book about cancer, cancer patients or “overcoming life with cancer”. This is a book about Hazel and Augustus who meet, have something in common and fall in love. I don’t mean to sound ignorant, the book does deal with the emotional consequences of having cancer, both in regards to […]
Why Prank Calls Are Dangerous: A Very Special Episode
Do you know what happens when a car that has crashed catches on fire? RL Stine apparently doesn’t. In the real world, a car that has caught on fire burns. In Hollywood and in Shadyside, however, every car is a Pinto. We’re back in familiar territory when the book opens with a first person narrative from a murderer. In this case, a murderer-to-be, as he’s planning rather than gloating. We then go to Deena Martinson and her friend Jade Smith. The two of them have […]
Ill Come To Thee By Moonlight
Cynda’s life seems to be falling apart. Her mom and stepfather are moving to Italy for three years. Cynda hates the idea, so her mother arranges an invitation for Cynda to move to Maine to stay with her dad for at least six months. The dad that left them ten years ago to marry one of his students. The dad who lives in an old inn and writes crime mysteries. The dad she has not seen in two years and who really knows nothing about […]
CBR VI # 1
I like how when you read the book, it doesn’t really feel like the future. In fact, the setting seems positively retro with the bikes and the innocence, like the 50s or something. But its not. Jonas, he of pale eyes, lives in a Community where everything is regimented. Everything and everyone has its place and time. Your path is set from the moment you are born from your birthmother until the moment you are released from old age. Jonas is in the 11th year […]
Hanging out with DJ Schwenk is still awesome
TITLE: The Off Season AUTHOR: Catherine Gilbert Murdock DESCRIPTION (from Amazon.com):