Review: Are You Terrified Yet?

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Book information


Title: Are You Terrified Yet?


Author: R. L. Stine


Where to buy: Amazon

Summary of my review: Not a typical horror book (features psychological horror). Main character has a great development throughout the book. Amy was demanding and selfish. Viscous circle. 

Another book I liked a bit more than the rest of the series.


I love that it's not the typical horror story one would read and that even R.L. Stine experimented with the subgenre psychological horror. I really like those. So when I read this book I was hooked from the start. And the ending had so many plot twists! Very fun and tense read. There might not be a monster, but there will be a hero. 


The only thing I didn't like was how Amy was always talking for Craig and always made decisions for him. Craig also complainted about this and I can't but agree. She was so selfish and always said 'that's not scary', 'he can do MORE'. Especially the 'more' part. She just put him deeper and deeper into this only for money. And I am pretty sure just like Craig that if he wouldn't have done what he would have done at the end they wouldn't have stopped. All of them. Including Amy. She was somewhat a bully too. 


This story wasn't just about a boy being terrified of every small thing. There was a character development from the start. Not only did he not scream, but he also never not done any task he was told to do. He only felt his feelings but he never showed his emotions. That's a kind of braveness. Acting though even if you don't feel like it. 'Cause most people aren't though and therefore also never do a though action. I see everyone brave who actually does something for it. No matter if they are still afraid, actions speak louder. A great example on Craig's development is when he visited the morgue the second time and instead of taking a long time even just jumping through the window he just went inside the morgue like it's nothing. You can tell me what you want, but he became mentally stronger.

How it works: Only everything that is lower than 9 gets reduced from the final rating. Depending on how strong it inflicted the overall enjoyment of reading it effects differently. 


[ Story 9 / 10 ]


[ Characters 7 / 10 ]


[ Triggering 0 / 10 ]


[ Topic/Genre 10 / 10 ]


[ Writing style 10 / 10 ]


[ Grammatic and spelling 10 / 10 ]


[ Ending 9 / 10 ]


Final Rating


4/5

Honestly I love psychological horror so I was amazed when I noticed where this story was going. It's not typical horror and made the story more unique from the rest of the Goosebumps series.

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Hi I'm Mika! Reviewer of ARC's but I also review unknown and small presses. My favourite genres are horror, thriller and graphic novels. I tend to be a strict reviewer but my average rating for small presses is 3.7

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