Review: Hit and Run (Point Horror #26) by R.L. Stine

Title: Hit and Run

Series: Point Horror #26

Author: R.L. Stine

Genre: YA, horror, mystery thriller

Publication date: June 1992

Published by: Scholastic

Source: Purchased paperback

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Synopsis: Eddie, Scott, Winks, and Cassie. They went out for a drive one night. Just to practice, so Eddie would be sure and get his license.

Then Eddie had a little accident. Now four friends share a terrible secret.

Because Eddie hit someone and killed him.

Didn't he?

My rating: ★★☆☆☆
So four teenagers without their license go out to practice their driving so that they can pass their driving test... Please tell me how that makes sense 😑 Lol. And it all goes about as well as you can imagine... they kill someone. Lol. Kidding 😅 But they do kill someone 😬 After the accident, they start receiving creepy notes and one of them even gets hit with a car, and omg could it be the guy they killed?? 😲

Me and this book, we started off not great. There were pranks everywhere. SO many pranks... I just did not like 😒 But these pranks were basically only pulled on one poor character. Let me rewind, these four friends have been besties since forever. We got Winks, the annoying prankster, Scott, the hot jock/representative of the Student Government, Eddie, the quiet one who is always teased and the center of the pranks, and then Cassie, the only girl in the group. So yeah, I hated how Eddie was picked on! Scott just went along with whatever Winks did, and Cassie kinda tried to get them to stop... but not hard enough. And then she also laughed at the poor guy. Ugh! It was awful! Just pranks everywhere at the expense of Eddie and I was so done. Especially when I read this:

“There’s one kid like that in every class,” Winks said. “One kid everyone liked to pound on. Eddie just happens to be that kid. He’s used to it.”
“You think so?” Cassie asked.

Fucking NO Cassie! God! What’s wrong with you? 😠

So I was not surprised at all when we found out that all the bad stuff that was happening was being done by Eddie. I knew it was him from the start. The way they treated the poor kid? He clearly did not like it, but they did it anyway. So yeah, it was glaringly obvious! The poor guy. I can’t say his asshole friends didn’t deserve it, if I’m honest. Winks in particular was awful!

The characters were just no good. The only thing I liked was the blooming relationship between Cassie and Scott. I thought they were really cute... you know, when they weren’t being completely awful to Eddie. The book wasn’t great, but I didn’t have an awful time reading it either 🤷‍♀️ I don’t know, I just like the feel of these books. And some parts did make me laugh... non-prank parts, mind you. Lol.

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