SYNOPSIS:

Her friends warn her not to go to Brendan Fear’s birthday party at his family’s estate on mysterious Fear Island. But Rachel Martin has a crush on Brendan and is excited to be invited. Brendan has a lot of party games planned. But one game no one planned intrudes on his party—the game of murder.

As the guests start dying one by one, Rachel realizes to her horror that she and the other teenagers are trapped on the tiny island with someone who may want to kill them all. How to escape this deadly game? Rachel doesn’t know whom she can trust. She should have realized that nothing is as it seems… on Fear Island.

WHY SHOULD YOU CHECK IT OUT?

If you ever read a Fear Street novel, you know where this one is going: death, blood, creepers, a bad-ass moment or two, and survivor girls!  If you didn’t grow up reading these gruesome horror fluff-nuggets, remember to go in with a taste for over-the-top dialogue and action and a little bit of escapism.

Half-deflated balloons litter the stairs of a fairly run-down home on this eerie and atmospheric cover.  It’s very different from the typical FEAR STREET cover, and we really like it.  We still have a lone, obscured figure atop the staircase for us to wonder: friend or foe?

As a young adult horror author since the 1989, R. L. Stine is often call the Stephen King of children’s literature.  It has been almost 20 years since the last book in this series, but when Stine made the announcement of new ones, it “caused a flurry of excitement both in the press and on social media, where fans rejoiced”.  Beyond the bestselling FEAR STREET books, he also wrote the children’s series GOOSEBUMPS, MOSTLY GHOSTLY, and more recently the YA novel A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT SCREAM.  Find Mr. Stine online at wwww.RLStine.com!

EARLY REVIEWS SAY…

Aimed at Goosebumps graduates, the story is constructed in short chapters that each end with a grab in the dark or some chilling discovery, and it is replete with horror tropes that are carefully gauged to titillate or gross readers out without really disturbing them. (Booklist)

There isn’t a lot to chew on when it comes to character or theme, although it’s hard to imagine anyone looking for such a thing in a Fear Street novel. These books are designed to be a pleasant diversion as well as fodder for nightmares, and in that aspect, the author doesn’t disappoint. … More of the same—yet here, that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. (Kirkus Reviews)

NECESSARY DETAILS

YA Horror

Hardcover & ebook,288 pages

Published on September 30th 2014 by St. Martin’s Griffin (ISBN 1250051614)

http://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250051615

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