5 comments about Ski Weekend (Fear Street, No. 10).

1. Ariel, Doug and Shannon were stranded by a blizzard when Red turns up. He brings them to a lodge but suddenly their hosts are acting hostile. They are stuck in a house full of guns and the phones are dead. Then the real terror begins.
   
   Another great Fear Street installment.



2. I liked this book, although it came to a slow start but quickly picked up. The characters are real and you can really believe them and know what they're feeling. It has some twists that will suprise you. I couldn't put this book down.
   It starts out with 4 friends headed home after a ski weekend and find themselves in a big mess when it becomes a terrible blizzard outside and they cant see inches in front of there windsheild and then there car breaks down so they spot a house up the hill that they figure they can stay in and wait out the storm at. But everything turns into a nightmare for these 4 young friends once they enter the house. And I guess you will have to read for yourself what it is. But over all this was one of the better books by R.L. Stine, because it's believable, something like this can happen in real life.



3. Ski Weekend Is about a group of friends that goes on vacation at a ski lodge.
   They drive there during a really bad blizzard. They can't see outside the car, and they're sliding all over the roads. Someone thinks they see something outside and starts freaking out. The car breaks down in they walk around to find a place to stay. They see an old house, they knock on the door, but no one answers. The door is unlocked, and they walk in they stand in front of the window and sees a shadow. That's the basics of the book, but I didn't really like this book because there were lots of boring parts, and I couldn't stay into the book. The book was boring I almost didn't want to finish. Maybe the reason why I didn't like it book is because I'm not a R.L Stine fan, but I love murder stories. There's something about R.L Stine that I don't like he just makes his stories where nothing happens tell the end of his storie.



4. This story is about kids that were playing in the snow. The main characters' names are: Ariel Munroe, Doug Mahr, and Shannon Harper, Doug's girlfriend.

   Ski Weekend is very scary, because the kids that were there were playing and suddenly a blizzard came. Some people even died.

   This is a very good book to read alone or in a group in the dark. It would be appropiate in the winter in front of the fireplace.




5. this book has been one of my favorite RL Stine books for a while. The book shows that you think you can trust someone but in the end you dont know who to turn to. This book also has good character development, you will feel like your right next to the characters the whole time and going through the same things that they are. i recomend this book to anyone who likes a good scary mystery

3 comments about NO PLACE TO HIDE (Sweet Valley High Super Thrillers).

1. This book is awesome.Once I started to read it I couldn't put it down.If your a svh fan,read this super thiller.



2. I LOVED this book! I couldnt put it down! Oh, its not thrilling, but its certainly exciting! You dont have to be a die hard Sweet Valley fan to enjoy this one!



3. this is my favorite svh book so far! you will never guess what happens.... if you dont read it youll miss out on a great story!

5 comments about Spring Break (Fear Street Seniors, No. 9).

1. This book had a different idea. There are two stories. One story focuses on Josie Maxwell and Jennifer Fear and the other story is about Josh Maxwell, Deirdre Palmer and some friends go to Arizona. It's really great how the two stories became connected. I'm just a bit mad at R.L. for taking away one of my fave seniors.



2. This is the 9th installment of R.L. Stine's "Seniors Saga". By now, this series is in full swing, and several Seniors have bit the dust. I really do like how the author, follows a regular school year schedule. This is "Spring Break" and obviously it is Spring Break for the students of Shadyside High School.
   I recommend to my students to read this one during Spring Break, it really gives you a feeling that your actually there. Residents of Arizona, will like this book, since this takes place at a fictional ranch in Tucson, Arizona.
   "Spring Break" has two separate storylines, the first group, Josh Maxwell, (who is back in the limelight again, after a couple of episodes) Gary Fresno, Mickey Myers, Deirdre Palmer all join Trisha Conrad at her Father's ranch in Arizona for a week of fun in the sun.
   Meanwhile, Josie Maxwell (Josh's Sister) and Jennifer Fear, are back home in Shadyside hanging out and decide to sneak into a bar, here they meet two college guys. The four start to hang out together and have some fun.
   Things go wrong quickly for the group in Arizona, as Josh bumps into an rough cowboy dude at the airport, and he tries to start a fight with Josh, this starts a chain of events that soon haunts the kids in Arizona.
   Someone soon starts to stalk Jennifer and Josie, leaving them messages on their car and their porch. Who is this? What does he/she want?
   Meanwhile, in Arizona, Josh and Co, meet Rose, her father, and Roberto. Roberto is excavating some Hohokam Indian Land.
   Rose warns them of "La Amadora" a vengeful Hohokam spirit, who comes after anyone who disturbs the sacred land.
   Soon things start to go wrong for Josh and Co. Things like a rattlensake bite, a coyote attack, a bedroom is broken into etc. Is it the work of the vengeful spirit? Is it someone who doesn't want them anywhere near the excavation site?
   This book is really well written as it takes the reader back and forth between two stories.
   Unfortunately not all the Seniors make it through Spring Break alive. Expect a twist at the end, as with most of these books, and finally, some of the characters show some remorse and/or emotion to someone dying. I felt this was long overdue. This is the beginning of the end of the saga, and it is sure to keep the reader interested from chapter to chapter.



3. I thought this was an amazing book. I loved how it switched from The story at Trisha Conrads Ranch to the story with Josie and Jennifer. I love the yearbook at the begginning of the book I like seeing who has died. I also like to predict whos next. I think these books are very suspenseful and You can never tell whos going to die. If anyone had to die out of everyone on the trip to Trishas ranch I wanted Deirdre to die the most because she was being a little wimp so that her sisters boyfriend could comfort her! If you are looking for a boook that you can't put down I suggest you read this one!I also loved the Josie and Jennifer thing. I was so mad at Tim and Evan! How could they do that to them? I thoguth at first they were evil. Like they were not doing it for attention but they actuallly wanted to hurt the 2 girls. I liked They're plan to scare the boyz but I thought that waas creepy about how deirdre came back to help them! In the Other srory at Trishas ranch Right from the begginning I knew Rose was bad. I had No Idea that she and Clay Hartley had teamed up but I knew there was something wronmg when she and Josh played hide and go seek and she suddenly disapeared and Josh got attacked by a coyote. Then she magicaly appears again saying she got lost. What A Joke! I would never trust her. As you can tell I enjoyed this book alot and I suggest to readers of any age READ THIS BOOK@



4. I liked the structure of this book. Having two stories in one book is one of the things I think keeps readers interested. I must say, though, that Josie's story was a little weak. Josh's story was much better in terms of the plot and picturing the scenes in your mind. However, Stine killed a Senior that I was really fond of, so I was a little disappointed. Also, the end made me a little teary-eyed. However, this is a great book, so I would advise all the Stine fans out there to read it.



5. It was sad the book ever had to end! I loved it except for the single person that died. The person who dies is a real shock! Read it.

5 comments about Hellboy: Odd Jobs.

1. Another good Hellboy book, like Odder Jobs, this has a reasonable number of Mignola illustrations throughout.
   
   There are some good stories here, including one with Bigfoot, some remniscing over a lost colleague because of a scarecrow demon, an encounter with a Medusa, and a ratboss that wants to help the BPRD for employee services reasons.
   
   Hellboy Odd Jobs : 01 Medusa's Revenge - Yvonne Navarro
   Hellboy Odd Jobs : 02 Jigsaw - Stephen R. Bissette
   Hellboy Odd Jobs : 03 A Mother Cries at Midnight - Philip Nutman
   Hellboy Odd Jobs : 04 Delivered - Greg Rucka
   Hellboy Odd Jobs : 05 Folie a Deux - Nancy Holder
   Hellboy Odd Jobs : 06 Demon Politics - Craig Shaw Gardner
   Hellboy Odd Jobs : 07 A Grim Fairy Tale - Nancy A. Collins
   Hellboy Odd Jobs : 08 Scared Crows - Rick Hautala and Jim Connolly
   Hellboy Odd Jobs : 09 Where Their Fire is Not Quenched - Chet Williamson
   Hellboy Odd Jobs : 10 I had Bigfoot's Baby! - Max Allan Collins
   Hellboy Odd Jobs : 11 The Nuckelavee - Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola
   Hellboy Odd Jobs : 12 A Night at the Beach - Matthew J. Costello
   Hellboy Odd Jobs : 13 Burn Baby Burn - Poppy Z. Brite
   Hellboy Odd Jobs : 14 Far Flew the Boast of Him - Brian Hodge
   
   Shield support snake lady staking.
   
   3.5 out of 5
   
   
   Hotel hell, bad books and a demon.
   
   4 out of 5
   
   
   Nuke man and lost boy.
   
   2.5 out of 5
   
   
   Ratman wants better conditions.
   
   4 out of 5
   
   
   Soldier's demon suicide.
   
   4 out of 5
   
   
   Captain America analogue and old ally possessed.
   
   3.5 out of 5
   
   
   Fairy's baby snacks.
   
   4 out of 5
   
   
   Scarecrow spirit monster.
   
   4 out of 5
   
   
   Evil congregates.
   
   4 out of 5
   
   
   Drug ring and interbreeding, sasquatch style.
   
   4 out of 5
   
   
   Garden variety skinless horse monster.
   
   3 out of 5
   
   
   Coney Island sea creepies.
   
   3 out of 5
   
   
   Liz learning.
   
   2 out of 5
   
   
   Grendel re-enactment rampage revenged.
   
   3.5 out of 5



2. I gotta start reading the fine print on these titles; I got totally fooled. I thought it was a comic book, just like the titles right above and below it. It's prose fiction. As in short stories. Yes there are some illustrations by Mike Mignola, but I thought I was getting a collection of Hellboy comics! ...



3. The book was better than I had expected. Having read some of the earlier comics where hellboy is first descovered this is a huge leap of discovery. The first of the short stories leads you to read more and more into how hellboy reacts and thinks. His charecter is dimensional having feelings of Good over Evil and cares for his friends more than he would any thing else in the world. It is a good book and would be well worth the buying.



4. Well this book is full of another looks on Hellboy himself and his world. Each story is pleasant and leads to a new contact with the stone handed red tall guy. From childhood to some pretty piece of horror, you'll have all the keys to unlock what was missing to the original comics: a character study...



5. I'll admit that I'm a Hellboy neophyte. Other than this collection of short stories, I know nothing of the Hellboy universe, and I've not even seen any of the comic book issues.

   Fortunately, a detailed understanding of the life and times of Hellboy is not necessary, because the short stories published here serve to provide plenty of background material. In any event, none of the plots hinge upon some fan-boy level of knowledge about our hero.

   To some degree, these stories can be described as a mutation of "The X-Files", except with Scully and Mulder being replaced by a cynical and world-weary demonic hellspawn with a heart of gold and a burning passion to kick butt. Hellboy is, as his name might suggest, literally from Hell, and has been on this Earth since the middle of World War II, when a failed Nazi occult ceremony evidently zapped the young demonlet into England. Since then, he's been helping the BPRD track down and eliminate paranormal threats to humanity.

   Most of the stories, unfortunately, follow a very standard formula: think of a cool ghost story or legend or myth, and then inject Hellboy in the midst. Hence, despite whatever technical merits they might have, Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola's "The Nuckelavee", Matthew Costello's "A Night at the Beach", and Max Collins' "I Had Bigfoot's Baby" are not particularly gripping, and they largely reduce Hellboy to a bystander or an observer, who occasionally throws a punch.

   Other stories are much more successful. Brian Hodge gives us "Far Flew the Boast of Him", which is both horrifying and poignant, and which, with its inclusion of a certain monster, offers a reward for those with degrees in English literature. Stephen Bissette's "Jigsaw" is disturbing and painful and has a beautifully sad ending. In a more lighthearted vein, Greg Rucka's "Delivered" shows that Hellboy isn't always fightin' mad and that not every encounter with the arcane ends in tragedy. And in "A Mother Cries at Midnight", Phillip Nutman explores the Mexican folk tale of the Weeping Woman, and its parallel to the childhood of Hellboy himself.

   The contributions from the other authors are not altogether memorable, but are at least sturdy and well-crafted, although a couple of them really fail to reach a meaningful conclusion.

   Illustrations are provided throughout the text by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. It's a handsome volume and a good way to pass a dark and rainy evening alone. Certainly, it's provocative enough to make me want to seek out more Hellboy material.

5 comments about Monster.

1. "Monster" was the first book I ever read by Christopher Pike. I was about 12 years old and I still remember how the mystery in the story pulled me in right from the start. After that, I read every other Christopher Pike book I could find in my school library. His stories are spooky, mysterious, romantic, exciting and I loved feeling like I was there with the characters in the stories. I'm 28 now and I still recall this book and the others very well, not bad. :)



2. A friend of mine recommended this book as a guilty pleasure, literary-quickie sort of read. I knew right away that I might not take a shine to it, but I'd enjoyed R.L. Stine and his ilk as a kid, so I thought it might be good for nothing if not a little nostalgia for the Young Adult phase of my reading life. To that end: this review.
   
   This book's target audience is obviously teenage girls. The protagonist, Angela, is new to town, not quite popular or outcast, and is just getting into the swing of high school sociology when, one night, her best friend, Mary, enters a party and starts blowing people away with a shotgun. The six seconds it takes for her to kill the first two kids pass without interruption -- a weird anomaly, but explained adequately enough by our author -- but then she goes after her boyfriend, who manages to escape. The rest of the book follows Angela as she attempts to figure out what would drive the younng, gorgeous, and intelligent Mary to commit such an act. Mary claims she did it because her classmates were no longer human: they were monsters.
   
   Angela, not entirely convinced, starts to probe deeper. And, yes, I meant that as a partial innuendo.
   
   Pike's story is actually much longer than the pages in this book. He sets up a lot of complicated backstory to explain the plot, enough so that it felt like I was reading the treatment of a novel. This thing could've been several hundred pages longer.
   
   Instead, Pike focuses on three basic things:
   
   --Angela's detective work. This is pretty rote and predictable. She interrogates Mary twice and visits a helpful geologist and Native American, both of them brimming with exposition. Unfortunately, these scenes are also exhaustingly boring because a) by this point, Pike has already given readers a pretty good idea of what's going on with lots of elaborate dream sequences and b) they are very poorly written. Pike's formula for the dialogue in these scenes seems to have been to dole out the necessary information, sprinkled with the occasional half-hearted plea for the interrogation to end.
   --Angela's "urges." It's wrong (or at least, not totally accurate) to say that the book contains sex, but Angela very often mulls over her horniness, especially when she thinks of it in light of her newfound relationship with Jim, whose body is described as the perfection of mankind on more than one occasion. Even given the vague explanations given later in the book, it's hard to believe that she would fall so completely for this guy, not a day or two after his girlfriend tried to blow him away with a shotgun.
   --The "evil." There's a lot of artsy nonsense about other planets, magnetism, and baths of blood. It's not exactly bad writing, but sandwiched next to Angela's weird dramatics and hollow personal life, they sound like snippets out of a completely different book.
   
   Uneven, tedious, and unfulfilling, this is a classic example of a book that doesn't live up to its potential. Maybe the other Pike books are better, but I'm not bound to find out any time soon.



3. I love this book. It's a quick read and a great story. One of Pike's best!



4. This is the first Christopher Pike book I read, and I liked it a lot. I find the sixteen to eighteen-year-old characters in his books to be more realistic and mature than the ones in a lot of other teenage-audience books. The plot in this one, like many of his other books, was very interesting.



5. Mary Blanc shoots two of her classmates and tries to kill her boyfriend. The police take Mary away and when she explains why she tried to kill her boyfriend, it seems unbelievable.

5 comments about The Last Scream (Fear Street: Fear Park, No. 3).

1. Synopsis: There have been numerous deaths occurring in Fear Park. A bomb exploded in the `House of Mirrors' killing twelve people; A person got trapped to death beneath the Ferris Wheel; the manager of the Animal Preserve was mauled to death by lions and so on. Due to these strange and bizarre incidents, Fear Park had been closed till now.
   
   Dierdre Bradley has a nightmare about the Park. She dreams about watching the "Hatchet Show", an event that took place at the park in 1935, where some kids who were chopping wood became crazy and started chopping each other to death. In her dream, Dierdre sees her boyfriend Robin chopping others in the group. Dierdre wakes up and foresees her dream as a warning of things to come in Fear Park. Dierdre's father, Jason is the owner of Fear Park and plans to reopen it to the public. Dierdre cannot convince her father to close the park because they have literally invested all their money into its success, and without it, they would be broke.
   
   What Dierdre is unaware of is that her boyfriend Robin Fear is the cause for all the trouble. Robin's father Nicholas, did not want the Bradleys to build an amusement park in his land, but they did anyway, so Robin is trying to fulfill his father's wishes to make sure that Fear Park is closed one way or another, even if it means killing the Bradleys. Having made himself and his girlfriend Meghan immortal, Robin is experienced in the black arts, and chants spells on Jason and Dierdre to close down Fear Park.
   
   However, Robin starts becoming very suspicious when Dierdre starts hanging out with a tall, lanky, red-haired guy named Gary. Robin's attempt at killing Dierdre fails whenever she is with Gary. Robin gets convinced that Gary is an immortal person too, and is protecting Dierdre from Robin's spells. Who will win the battle, Robin or Dierdre?
   
   Review: Since I haven't read the previous two volumes in the "Fear Park" series, I really didn't know what to expect. Even though it is fairly easy to understand the storyline (without reading the previous 2 books), this was a really hard book to read, mainly because it was so gory. I have read a lot of Fear Street books, and I hardly remember any of them having this much violence. Some parts were just disgusting, like when Jason starts removing big fat worms from his throat, or when someone starts vomiting green glob from the Ferris Wheel.
   
   Also, I thought the book ended really abruptly, because there were quite a few issues Stine never gave an explanation to, especially in terms of who Gary really is. Why did he suddenly start hanging around Dierdre in the first place? If he is not immortal, then why didn't Robin's spells work on him?
   
   Even though I enjoyed the twist in the climax of the story, I felt that there was hardly any suspense or fear in the book, and a lot of unnecessary gruesome details. Unless you are a fan of the previous Fear Park novels, I would avoid reading this one.



2. This is the last book of the series. I really enjoyed this series. It is about an amusement park (Fear Park). The series is more on the gory side rather than the cozy side; that's why one star is missing. But I did have fun reading this series, even though there are better R.L. Stine books that I have read.



3. Out of the 3 Fear Park books, this one was definitly the best one. It was a very good book. It always kept you guessing. It was awesome!



4. I LOVE THIS BOOK! I LOVED THE FIRST TO PARTS TO IT TOO! I WAS HOPING ROBIN WOULD KILL HER! HE WAS THE COOLEST CHARACTER! tHREW THE WHOLE BOOK I WAS CHANTING: KILL HER! I DIDN'T LIKE THAT GIRL. (I DON'T EVEN REMEMEBER HER NAME. THIS WAS THE BEST BOOK I'VE EVER READ! I ONLY READ FEAR STREET AND LOUIS S.'S BOOKS. I HATE GOOSEBUMPS. BUT THAT'S BESIDE THE POINT. ANY FEAR STRRET BOOK CONNECTING WITH THE FEAR FAMILY AND THIER HISTORY IS AUTOMATICLY GOOD. Oops! Anyways, this is such a good book! I'd read it again if I could find were I put it! I still wish Robin killed that one girl!



5. " The Last Scream" will have anyone screaming! This book is the best R.L. Stine has ever created. I LOVED THIS BOOK!!!!!!!

5 comments about Silent Night 2 (Fear Street Super Chillers, No. 5).

1. Synopsis: Its been a year since the horrible incidents happened at Dalby's Department Stores. Yet, Reva Dalby once again finds herself working behind the counter at her father's store. She wishes she could be in St. Croix with her brother Michael. Things start looking up for Reva when she meets Victor Dias, Pam's new boyfriend. Reva's new goal: snatch Victor away from her cousin Pam.
   
   Meanwhile, Paul Nichols, a depressed man who just got fired from Dalby's Stores, hatches a plan with his girlfriend Diane Morris to get back at the Dalbys. They decide to kidnap Reva and hold her for ransom, knowing that Reva's father would pay millions to get his daughter back. Will they succeed in their plan?
   
   Review: Since I did not enjoy the first book in the series, I was expecting to be disappointed in this one as well. I was pleasantly surprised when I found myself enjoying this book, and thought that it was a much better improvement than the first one.
   
   Sure, Reva is still the same snarky and rude character she was in the first book, but the story is much more organized in this book. Firstly, I liked the fact that this book didn't rely on the traditional `whodunit' scenario. We already know who the villains are in the beginning of the book. The fun actually starts when Pres and Diane start trying the various ways of kidnapping Reva.
   
   Although it is meant to be a Supper Chiller book, I couldn't help but laugh when I read on how Pres and Diane failed in their initial attempts. I think Stine had meant to add some humor into this book, and I enjoyed the fact that he did (assuming that he did so intentionally).
   
   Some parts which really shocked me in the book were when Reva finds out who really helped the kidnappers kidnap her, and when Danny goes into his anger fits and we don't know what he will do next.
   
   Although this is a really minor issue, one thing that really threw me off was the cover of the book. There is no incident in the book where Reva is actually being held by Santa Clause! The tag line "Jingle Bells - Santa Kills" also did not have any relevance to the story.
   
   Nevertheless, even though this is not one of my favorite Fear Street books, I did enjoy reading it and I thought it was a much better than the first part of the series.



2. The spoiled brat daughter of the owner a department store chain is kidnapped? R. L. Stine is a good writer: by the time the bad guys get
   her we are halfway hoping they will!
   He raises sympathy for the poor guy and his girl who are broke at
   Christmas. It appears this is the second time things have gone wrong for Reva at Christmas. She tries to steal her cousin Pam's boyfriend Victor
   and at her job at the department store she is rude to customers.
   In short we get to dislike her. Pam gets kidnapped by mistake and makes a deal for her life. Ambushed at Pam's Reva is ironically taken to her Father's store. The brother of the first two kidnappers is
   a real criminal type who breaks Reva's arm and knocks out Pam with a slap.
   After escaping from the store room where they are held, they are chased
   until the FBI gets there following a trace of the call demanding money for Reva. As well written as it is the story is kind of more funny that
   scary? You are kind of left thinking that Reva didn't get
   much more than she deserved...?



3. I dont know if any of you all remember a show on Nickeoleon called "sixteen", but the snob on the show who named was amber, is who I used to think of when it came to the Reva character. They are one of the same persona, looks, and even the red hair.



4. As a way to get money and revenge for being fired at Dalby's Department Store, Paul "Pres" Nichols, his girlfriend (Diane Morris), and older brother (Danny) plan on holding the owner's daughter (Reva Dalby) for ransom--except everything that could go wrong does, like kidnapping the wrong girl: Reva's poor cousin, Pam Dalby, one of the few characters who makes a reappearance from the previous book. Almost all the other characters in here are new. Like in the first "Silent Night," Reva isn't in the forefront of this sequel very much (a lot of time is spent on the kidnappers), though she is still as cruel as ever, apparently not learning her lesson from a year ago.

   If you liked this book, then you'll probably enjoy the other two: "Silent Night" and "Silent Night 3."




5. Reva Dalby is back to her mean self and is going to get what she deserves. I liked this book because it reminded me of real life as a teenager and how kids are desperate for money. It was hard to put the book down because it always left you hanging after each chapter. It was funny to read what Reva was doing to people and how sly she was with getting out of trouble. I would recommend this for tenagers who like thrill and suspence.

5 comments about The Angel Chronicles, Volume 3.

1. Another three television episode adaptation from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Surprise, Innocence, and Passion. An injured Spike and a recovered Drusilla summon the Judge as a weapon.
   
   After Buffy and Angel do the horizontal mambo, Angel's soul vacates the premises, and the new Angelus kills Jenny Calendar, after her true purposes is revealed.



2. Although Nancy Holder isn't my favourite "Buffy" novelist, and the books based on the television episodes aren't top quality reading material (why not just watch the show?) this third volume of the Angel Chronicles gets higher marks simply because it's based on three of the show's best episodes.
   
   It's worth having them in book form, and is a good book to lend to a person new to the Buffy universe (especially if they're watching "Angel" for the first time) as this handles the far reaching history and consequences of Angel's destiny, his soul, his curse, and its all-important clause.
   
   Like the previous volumes in this series, the book contains three teleplays, in this case "Surprise" by Marti Noxon, "Innocence" by Joss Whedon, and "Passion" by Ty King, all of which are set in season two. Nancy Holder's style is somewhat bland at times, and certain scenes that have been known to get me teary on the television screen registered nothing here, but she gets the main points and emotions across clearly enough.
   
   In "Surprise" it's Buffy's seventeenth birthday, and her group of friends (Xander, Willow, Giles, Cordelia, Angel, Oz and Jenny) are determined to give her a decent party. Unfortunately, as time will soon tell, Buffy's birthdays never go smoothly, and resident vampires Spike and Drusilla are planning their own celebration. They have collected together all the pieces of the indestructible Judge, a demon that destroys anything with goodness inside them.
   
   This episode was followed immediately by "Innocence". After Angel and Buffy narrowly escape the power of the Judge, they slept together for the first time, which now results in Angel's curse rearing its ugly head, and a secret identity revealed amongst Buffy's group of friends. Now the Slayer has two forms of evil to deal with - the Judge, and the sadistic Angelus, Angel's evil alter-ego.
   
   Finally, "Passion" is perhaps my favourite episode of the entire show, which brought forth a beautiful score, a shocking death and amazing performances from the entire cast. Angelus is on a mission not just to kill Buffy, but to completely destroy her, targetting her family and friends with scare tactics and mind games in order to bring her down. But now he must take more decisive action once one of Buffy's allies finds a way to bring his soul back.
   
   Often the show is simply more powerful than what Holder can portray on the page, but other times the written word can offer more insights into the minds of the characters - her most potent contribution is Jenny Calendar's tragic and heartbreaking last thought. Likewise Angelus's thoughts on the nature and meaning of passion are just as profound, and fit in nicely with her framing of the story - two passages at beginning and end with Angel/Angelus watching Buffy's house.
   
   She also helps clean up a blooper made on the show - when Xander gets his idea on how to take out the Judge he tells the others "meet me at Willow's in half an hour." However, the show then cuts to the next day when Buffy confronts Jenny, before returning to Xander's plan that night. Holder explains this by adding that "Oz's van was in the shop," making them have to wait.
   
   Out of all of the novelisations out there, this is the one worth having.



3. The Angel Chronicles Volume 3 was great! It was obvioulsy about when Angel reverts to Angelus. I liked how they charcterized Angelus because to me the two personalities were really seperated much better than in the series by their thoughts. I especially liked (in how it was written) and hated (in the general sense) about the thoughts and the actions surronding Angelus killing Jenny Calander. Definently a must for any Buffy/Angel fan.



4. If you are wondering wether to buy this book or not i would say yes. It makes you think you are really there and the parts are explained and writen really goodly and has a lot of cool sceans of fights that have a lot of action in them.



5. Unlike the first two volumes in this Buffy sub-series, this third collection of a trio of adapted scripts from the second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer really do all focus on pivotal moments in "The Angle Chronicles." Nancy Holder, clearly the top writer of the Buffy books, adapts the teleplays of "Surprise" by Marti Noxon, "Innocence" by Joss Whedon, and "Passion" by Ty King. These pivotal stories in the series cover the episodes where Angel spends the night with Buffy, is transformed into Angelus, and brutally kills Jenny Calendar. As the back cover notes, there are stories chronicling Angel's darker side. In fact, it never gets any darker than this, but it also sets up the fabulous of the series, the two-part "Becoming" episodes at the end of Season Two.
   
   Holden does a nice job of capturing the emotional depth of the conflict within these stories. It is a thankless job to put into words those things that transcend words, such as the emotional meltdown suffered by Giles and Buffy after she rescues her Watcher from his gallant but doomed attack on Angelus. Holden never disappoints in her efforts, which carry over to her original stories as well (Read Holder's comments above to see how committed she is to getting things right). As novelizations of Buffy episodes go, I have yet to read one better than this. One of the nice things about this volume is that these particular episodes are the first three on the Buffy and Angel Chronicles video collection.
   
   Hopefully the other three episodes will be novelized in the fourth volume of "The Angel Chronicles," although such sensible symmetry is probably too much to hope for on this side of the Hellmouth. Until then, think about given Nancy Holder's non-Buffy books a try as well. You have to support someone like this boys and girls.

3 comments about Wild Ride on Bigfoot Mountain (Heebie Jeebies).

1. Or it used to be, back in the 1990s, when youth pastor Rod Randall was writing up a storm with his famous "Heebie Jeebies" series. In this series Christ also has the power to rid the world of werewovles, piranha fish, or serial killers.
   
   I wonder what happened to Pastor Randall, he was so reliable, he not only did the great "Heebie Jeebies" books, but he also had a great series called, "The Misadventures of Willien Plunkett" which wasn't so Stephen King and was more pleasant to read and preached the virtues of Christ even more wholeheartedlty. But maybe the market is soft right now for such tales. I hardly see any kids reading Rod Randall books right now, they're going for the video games.



2. I really enjoyed this book. It was very cool to read. I was glad it was a Christian based book because my mom doesn't allow me to read the Harry Potter books. Parts of the book were kinda spooky. It was a great book to read on the airplane. It made the time go by fast and kept me entertained.



3. I really enjoyed this book. It was very cool to read. I was glad it was a Christian based book because my mom doesn't allow me to read the Harry Potter books. Parts of the book were kinda spooky. It was a great book to read on the airplane. It made the time go by fast and kept me entertained.

5 comments about The Fire Game (Fear Street, No. 11).

1. In the beginning, the book was uninteresting but as the story goes deeper, it becomes interesting. This book is a pageturner especially when Jill was stuck with the murderer in the cabin at Fear Street woods. That part was near the end. That one was very exciting.



2. The Fire Game was indeed very exciting! At first, The Fire Game was for fun. Jill and her friends are the ones playing it and it's all because of Gabe who convinced them to play with fire but as the story goes on, the fire game quickly becomes dangerous.



3. This book is one of my favorite Fear Street book. I was really excited to find out who the murderer was and when I found out, I was really shocked. I didn't think that person was capable of being a murderer!



4. This is the best Fear Street book I have read. I wasn't expecting this certain person to be the murderer. I really thought it was Andrea since she was acting like a snob. Instead, it was someone else. Someone close to Jill.



5. This book was full of surprises. You never know what would happen next. I found this book very exciting especially when Jill found out who the murderer was and she was stuck with that person at that time. The ending is very different from the other Fear Street books I've read.