Scholastic Goosebumps Slappyworld #5: Escape From Shudder Mansion
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Brand: Scholastic
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Merchant: Scholastic
Product ID: 118554
ISBN: 9781407195858
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Author: lw2021
Rating: 5
Review: Great book, my kids love it.
Author: Name Goes Here
Rating: 2
Review: Unfortunately, with every good Goosebumps book comes some bad or meh ones. This one was forgettable at best, downright bad at worse. The game explanation comes off as someone who has never played one, let alone a modern game that the younger generation would actually play. More like a watered down Dark Souls as explained by someone who only saw a handful of pictures of castles and monsters. While this shouldnt matter to much the story stops constantly for R. L. Stine's new phone game pitch idea that it just forces you to consider it and see all the flaws on how it's a bad game that wouldn't work in a modern setting. Main character was just plain unlikable and thus hard to care about following. Interestly it actually made me route against him in favor of what was suppose to be an annoying brat character. Much like the unfortunate problem with You Cant Scare Me and Be Careful What You Wish For. I feel the book would have done better from the sister's perspective and dealt with her friendship to this new girl who has major importance to what is happening, with the brother having a role more like Kermit from the Monster Blood series. Instead we focus on a character constantly shouting "ITS THE GAME, GUYS" while a character with ties to our antagonists and knowledge of what is really going on is even less of a background character then the actual classmate background characters, and rarely appears. The end twist is both easy to see coming by the end of the fourth chapter and completely out of nowhere in the sudden forcing in of two completely new antagonists last minute with "they evil" as all the explanation of who they are and what they want. Ultimately feels like one of the weak bad endings from a How To Give Yourself Goosebumps book aimed at trying to get the reader to reread the book. Theres also this weird cheap "something horrible happened but not really" thing with some chapter endings. The main kid will start daydreaming, I guess, and pass out from fear. It was so jarring and made me wonder if there was some twist involving it with how often it happens. Almost like dying and restarting from check points in a game. Sadly, they mean nothing more than a cheap way to force horror into a book that doesnt have any real horror until 2/3rds in. It seems Mr. Stine might not have much real knowledge on modern gaming and unfortunately it shows and hurts the work. And with his ability to crank out so many so quickly, unfortunately some end up having that first draft only feel. Unless you are collecting, not worth the buy. Even for the younger readers, I'd suggest something else. There are so many more good Goosebumps books that I cant suggest buying a bad one like this. All in all, forgettable and frustratingly bad.
