Title: Fear Park
Series: Fear Park | Fear Street Collector's Editions
Books in this omnibus: The First Scream | The Loudest Scream | The Last Scream
Author: R.L. Stine
Genre: YA, horror, mystery thriller
Publication date: November 1998
Published by: Archway Paperback
Source: Purchased paperback
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Synopsis:
The First Scream: Dierdre Bradley's father just opened an amusement park on Fear Street, and the screams of joy will soon change to screams of terror.
The Loudest Scream: Dierdre doesn't know that her new boyfriend, Robin Fear, has a plan to destroy Fear Park. A plan that may cost Dierdre her life.
The Last Scream: Robin has almost achieved his dream of destroying Fear Park. But he doesn't know that someone has been watching him -- and waiting for revenge.
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The First Scream takes place in two different timelines, I guess? We start off in 1935 then move to the present aka 1996. Well, the synopsis makes it seem like most of our time will be spent in the present but noooo! Most of it takes place in the past. Don’t get me wrong, I would’ve enjoyed it more had I not been lied to and anticipating the switch early on in the book! But the present is literally only the last 40 pages of this book! That was a little frustrating.
This series was very intriguing to me because, first of all, I love it when books are set in an amusement park. Especially if said amusement park is creepy and horrible things happen. Lol. But also, Fear Park is never mentioned in any of the other Fear Street books, so that was weird. But this book just ended up being... okay. I hated most of the characters and I was not a fan of all those relationships. I did like seeing the Fears and Fear magic being used and all the gory, creepy things that happened. I wanted to love this, but I just didn’t. 🤷♀️
Robin Fear is still trying to stop Fear Park from opening. And Dierdre’s dad is still an idiot for not closing down the park even though people keep dying! Wtf, bro! Shut it down! He’s gonna get so many lawsuits. Lol.
This was another okay book. I liked the setting at an amusement park, but the story was kinda meh. It just felt very dragged out.
The kills were pretty cool though—nice and gory.
I still don’t like Dierdre and am kinda rooting for Robin. But I guess we’ll see how things turn out in the next book of the series.
This book was literally just more of that. All these “accidents” keep happening and that idiot still wont shut down the park! It’s insane! We get a reason as to why Dierdre’s dad wont close the park down, but still!
And speaking of the “accidents,” Robin keeps doing these little things—little kills here and there to shut down the park, and dude! It’s not working! He keeps doing his stupid little pranks and Robin is being kind of a dick, but it’s kinda funny, but that’s not the point! Just do the thing! Do the killing! It’s not until this book that he realizes that in order to really shut down the park he’s gonna have to kill the Bradleys. No duh, Robin! 🙄 Why didn’t he just do that in the first place?! All this was just so dragged out. I was definitely getting impatient.
This entire series was mediocre at best. The characters were dumb, the entire story was so dragged out I got impatient, and this book in particular had less kills than the other two!
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