Jamie and Tom have been going out since junior high. They are planning to graduate from high school and attend college together. Everything's perfect until Tom breaks a date--and all the horror begins. What has happened to Tom? To Jamie's horror, the boy she loves is stalking her and making threats. Now, there's nowhere Jamie can hide.
My rating:★★☆☆☆
Oh, this book... not one of R.L. Stine’s best, I’m afraid.
This is gonna be hard review to do because pretty much everything I have to say is spoiler-y, so here we go. Lol.
Basically, Jamie is at the mall one day with her best friend, when she witnesses a robbery and murder. She freaks out because she thinks the guy might have been her boyfriend Tom. But this idiot wasn’t wearing her glasses, but she’s pretty sure it was him.
From the beginning I knew it wasn’t Tom. The book made a point to mention how blind she was without her glasses, but she didn’t wear them because she didn’t like how they looked on her.
I get that Jamie doesn’t like the glasses on her, I was like that too when I first got them... but I was in middle school! But also, give your boyfriend the benefit of the doubt, girl! You’ve been together since forever! It was SO obvious that it wasn’t Tom, but instead a guy that only sort of looked like him. I just knew it! And surprise, surprise, I was right. Or I guess I should say that I wasn’t surprised. Lol. As someone who wears glasses, this was just... UGHHHHH! She was just so dumb! This whole problem could’ve been avoided if she had worn her glasses. Or you know what? Contacts. It’s not like they weren’t a thing back in the 90s.
Tom was being a little shady—he was definitely hiding something from Jamie. Was it the murder?
No! I figured it was something like a new job and he didn’t want Jamie to know about it for one reason or another. And guess what, I was right... again! It was just so obvious to me throughout this book that it was not Tom. Poor Tom with his crazy girlfriend...
And then the climax was pretty underwhelming...
First of all, when the real Tom goes to rescue a kidnapped Jamie from the real killer, Tom apparently rides the whole way to the cabin on top of the van she was kidnapped in. WTF, dude! First of all, I get that this is fiction, but how am I supposed to suspend my disbelief with something like that? Especially when they drove on the highway and then through the woods. Second of all, it made me laugh my ass off because of just how ridiculous it was. And again, seriously, WTF?
And then the fake out with Tom, a super amazing swimmer, being ‘drowned’? UGHHHHHH. God Jamie, what the actual fuck! She’s freaking out because she thinks he is actually being killed. How does she not remember that her boyfriend is a goddamn swimmer?! Obviously he’s faking it because unlike Jamie, he’s actually smart. So after faking his death he saves Jamie. Yay... or whatever.
So yeah, I wasn’t the biggest fan of this book. The main character Jamie was just so dumb it was frustrating! Everything was just so obvious to me from the start! I’ll tell you one thing I did like though: Jamie’s friend Ann-Marie. She was really funny and such a savage! But overall, this book? Not my thing. I swear, R.L. Stine was so many other books that are better than this! I promise! Lol.
Have you read this book? If so, what did you think about it? If not, what do you think? Does it sound like something you might want to read? Leave me a link to your review or comment below! :)
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