During a rainy night and running late for an away football game, the cheerleaders have their driver Simmons take their small bus down Fear Street to pick up some fire batons. Tragedy is always just around the corner in Shadyside. Shadyside has a gymnast team, but it can't afford to field a full-size Cheerleading program? Is that even feasible with a seven person squad? That seems small, but I know nothing about cheerleading outside of the movies. Jennifer and Miss Green will do whatever it takes to give their team an edge in competitions. Team Captain Jennifer Daly is all for anything that will give them an edge in states, but Kimmy Bass is pissed that these pretty blonde girls can waltz onto the team and bump off freshman Ronnie Mitchell. The only thing that matters is that the girls land a spot on the cheer-leading squad. Their parents bought a house on Fear Street near the cemetery, but the girls don't mind. ( )īobbi and Corky Corcoran are new to Shadyside. I feel I've reached a new low in my literary journeys for this to even be a sentence my brain can form, let alone an actual positive fact about a book but there it is. On the plus side, and trust me it's only a plus because I've been reading a lot of Stephen King lately, it doesn't sexualise teenage girls and no mention or descriptions of underage nipples are present. We deserve better teen horror books than this. The non-ending ending sealed the deal and made this tiny book a one star experience. The bad writing and the try-hard jump scares/cliffhangers made the experience lack any enjoyment. The characters where paper thin archetypes and clichés and everything about the plot was completely expected. It jumped from one scene to another, without notice, pause, or any explanation making it feel like the first draft of a TV script.

My main problem was that it was badly written. A chore I gladly did only because I read it as part of a book club so I knew I wasn't alone in my suffering. I thought reading this would be a breeze but I was so uninterested it turned out to be a bit of a chore. And here I thought lazy, petty jump scares where only found in horror flicks. A book where EVERY chapter ends with a jump scare or a cliffhanger.

First Evil by R.L. Stine