Title: Goodnight Kiss
Series: Goodnight Kiss | Fear Street Collector's Editions
Books in this collection: Goodnight Kiss | Goodnight Kiss 2
Author: R.L. Stine
Genre: YA, horror, mystery thriller
Publication date: July 1997
Published by: Simon Pulse
Source: Purchased paperback
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Synopsis: Goodnight Kiss 1Matt and his girlfriend, April, are plunged into a horrifying world of endless night when they encounter the vampires of Sandy Hollow. April is lured away from Matt when a vampire controls her—hypnotizes her with his strange, intoxicating kisses. Now Matt must save April, before she gets her final goodnight kiss.
Goodnight Kiss 2Bill has been to Sandy Hollow before. This summer, he's returning to the little resort town—but not for fun in the sun. He is searching for creatures of the night—the vampires who prey on the tourists there. Billy's girlfriend was one of those tourists—until the vampires killed her. Now Billy has vowed to destroy them all—even if he must join them trying.
Plus a new vampire story by R.L. Stine: The Vampire Club.Pete Kelly has left Fear Street and come to a new school—Forest Grove High—so he's eager to make friends. Then he meets Nan Garner, a gorgeous girl who invites him to join a club. Sounds good, Pete thinks. Until he discovers the club's terrible secret. And their plan to make him a permanent member.
This omnibus has the Goodnight Kiss duology PLUS a short story at the end that I don’t think has been published anywhere else before. It was fun!
We start off the book with this couple, and we think one character is a vampire, but then there was this really fun plot twist! Then two vampires make a bet to see who can turn a human into a vampire first. I really enjoyed this game Gabri and Jessica played and the way they tried to sabotage each other... it was so fun!
Our other main characters, the humans, are April, her boyfriend Matt, and his friend Todd. Basically, Matt is the one who sees that his best friend and girlfriend are acting weird and he sort of tries to save them.
This book was so much fun! Which surprised me because I'm not super into vampires anymore. But I was pleasantly surprised! (See my full review HERE.)
We start the book off with this character named Diana, who was a real badass, but we didn’t 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 got 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 get 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!
The first book in this duology was a lot of fun, so I was really looking forward to this one. Unfortunately, it was not as great as Goodnight Kiss 😞 (See my full review HERE.)
This short story at the end of the book is just under 20 pages, so it was a very quick.
We have this kid, Pete, and he is not moving to Shadyside, he is actually moving away! At his new school, he joins this vampire club where they, unsurprisingly, hunt vampires. To join the club, Pete must kill one 😬
This was a pretty good read overall. The plot twist was really cool—I enjoyed that!
The Fear Street connection: I think Pete lived on Fear Street? He definitely lived in Shadyside previously, though.
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