Review: Goodnight Kiss 2 (Goodnight Kiss #2, Fear Street Super Chiller #10) by R.L. Stine

Title: Goodnight Kiss 2

Series: Goodnight Kiss #2 | Fear Street Super Chiller #10

Previous book in this series: Goodnight Kiss

Author: R.L. Stine

Genre: YA, horror, mystery thriller

Publication date: July 1996

Published by: Archway Paperback

Source: Purchased paperback

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Synopsis: Vampires are stalking the small resort town of Sandy Hollow. Billy knows it; his girlfriend was one of the victims last summer. Now Billy is back - and he wants revenge.

His friends don't believe him. But nobody can explain the bodies found on the beach - with two puncture holes in the neck. Or the swarm of bats that appear each night.

The undead are here, and Billy's going to beat them.

Or join them.

My rating: ★★★☆☆

The first book in this duology was so much fun, so I was really looking forward to this one. Unfortunately, it was not as great as Goodnight Kiss.

We start off the book with this character named Diana, who was really badass! But we didn’t really get back to her until the end of the book, which really sucked.

But the person (or vampire, I should say 😏) who is back is April! The plot twist in the last book was that Gabri did manage to turn April into a vampire! So now, vampire April has her hungry sights set on Billy and his friends. Billy’s girlfriend Joelle was killed by vampires last summer and that messed him SO much he was actually in a mental hospital for a year. But now he’s back to hunt down the vampires who killed her. This story should have been interesting, but it just wasn’t. Billy says he came back to kill the vampires, but he did pretty much nothing to achieve this goal! Plus, we got another bet between two vampires, which LITERALLY already happened in the first book. Whoever turns their human boy into a vampire wins. We did this already!

And going back to Billy really quick, the reason why he did nothing... he was a vampire this whole time, too! He was the killer! This would’ve been a fun twist, except that the book lied right to our faces! I mean, we were inside this guy’s head! And look, I’m all for unreliable narrators, but this wasn’t that. It was an outright lie!

As for April, throughout this whole book, while she was around Billy, she kept acting like she wasn’t a vampire and that made me very confused. WELL, it turns out that she WASN’T a vampire because she WASN’T even April to begin with! It was actually Diana pretending to be April... Diana, who was April’s cousin! And I guess April wasn’t a fan of that vampire life because we learn that she killed herself. Yikes. So even though we were lied to AGAIN cause we were inside Diana-as-April’s head a lot, I did appreciate Diana doing all this for her cousin.

So this book was definitely not as good as book one, but it did have its moments and turned out to be an okay read. I highly recommend the first book, though! That one was such a fun summer read!

The Fear Street connection: April is from Shadyside? I don’t even know. I don’t think Fear Street was even mentioned 😐

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