Review: What Holly Heard (Fear Street #34) by R.L. Stine

Title: What Holly Heard

Series: Fear Street #34

Author: R.L. Stine

Genre: YA, horror, mystery thriller

Publication date: January 1996

Published by: Archway Paperback

Source: Own paperback

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Synopsis:

Holly Denver is the biggest gossip at Shadyside High. Her best friends Miriam Maryles and Ruth Carver are sure it’s going to get her in big trouble someday. But Miriam and Ruth never thought Holly would wind up dead—strangled with her own scarf. Now the murderer thinks Holly told her friends what she heard—and will do anything to silence them forever.

My rating: ★★★☆☆

It was too shocking to tell...

Holly is a huge gossip, but this latest rumor she heard got her killed. Yikes. Now Holly’s friends Miriam Ruth fear that the killer will come after them.

Holly was mostly a fun character, but I can’t say I was the biggest fan of hers overall. A trope in these books that I am kind of getting sick of seeing, is a character going after another guy when they already have a guy! Especially when the other guy already has a girlfriend too! Wtf Holly?

And Miriam’s boyfriend Jed was an absolute dick! He was just really mean and he manhandled her, which was totally not okay. At one point she did put her foot down and told him that if he touched her again like that she would break up with him. You go girl and all that, but why not break up with him now? He’s been a dick up to this point and you’ve given him one too many passes. So yeah, he sucked.

Overall, it was a pretty okay read. I thought the story was intriguing and I was very interested to find out what Holly heard to get her killed.

Remember when I said that Holly was wanting another girl’s guy? Yeah, well it turned out that Ruth was the killer. And all over a guy.

The mystery did keep me guessing until the end, even though I suspected the killer early on. It was kinda obvious. But to be fair, I suspected pretty much everyone. Lol.

The Fear Street connection: Miriam and Holly both live on Fear Street.

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