Fear Street Saga #3: The Burning
R.L. Stine
Amazon Summary:
Simon Fear thought changing his name would stop the evil. He was wrong—dead wrong.
After generations of unspeakable horror, it is up to Daniel and Nora, brought together by their fateful love, to unite the feuding families. But is their forbidden love strong enough to withstand such awesome evil?
Poor Nora—desperate to tell the truth and bury the family curse…before it buries her.
My Review:
6.75/10
Surprise surprise. Another Fear Street review. Is anyone ever surprised anymore? I wanted to write a short review on this book, and that's only because it was 130 pages. Let's move onto the review portion.
This book is the third book in a trilogy, set in the world of R.L. Stine's Fear Street novels. This is a trilogy that takes place before all of the stories in the original 51 novels. It is all very confusing how the series' work, meaning with the side stories. There is a mini novel series, in the Fear Street Universe (FSU), separate from standalones. I am talking about "Fear Street: Cheerleaders" It is a five book spin off.
My thoughts on this book however were mixed. I started this book months ago, but never finished it. And as I slipped back into my Fear Street Era, I figured "finish what I start." Since this was part of a standalone trilogy, I did have to restart reading the book. However, it wasn't that tedious, because I skimmed what had been previously read. It all came back to me after a while, so I sped-read it.
The two things I really liked about this book was it took place in two different time periods. Half of the book was Daniel and Nora's love story, and the second half was about their children. This is partially where I thought the book dropped off a little. I will explain more in a minute. The other thing I liked is that it wrapped up all of the trilogy in a neat little bow. You find out about the narrator, and why she was in prison over the span of three books.
In a book, there are good things and bad things, and it is only fair that I address some of the problems I had with this book. One of which was that it wasn't as scary as I would've expected from Stine. The other FSU novels were much more intense and scary, whereas this book was way less scary. I was less invested in the story, and wanted more action. But it just wasn't there.
THE TRILOGY OVERALL:
Now that this trilogy has ended, I have come to the conclusion that I could've skipped these three novels, and just kept on reading the standalones. It was just a more detailed version of the street's history, which is always discussed in the standalone novels.
That being said, I did enjoy constantly having books on deck to read, and that were shorter, so I can read more.
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