Title: Lessons in Terror
Series: Fear Street | Fear Street Collector's Editions
Books in this omnibus: The Cheater | College Weekend | Final Grade
Author: R.L. Stine
Publication date: September 1998
Published by: Archway Paperback
Source: Own paperback
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Synopsis: Are you afraid to walk down Fear Street? Maybe you should be.They say that weird things always happen on that dark and twisting road. They say it's a place to be frightened of - that those who go there never return the same. And some never return at all...The say the evil of Fear Street infects the entire town, even the high school... Dare to read about three high school students who each learn a deadly lesson, in the FEAR STREET books of this special Collector's Edition.
School's in session... which is unfortunate because these kids are definitely gonna die 😆
So our main character, Carter, took a placement test, got a good test results back, but not good enough for her dad, apparently 🙄 So now she’s gonna take it again to get a better grade... Except she’s not. A guy from school takes the test for her because IDs apparently aren’t a thing at this test taking site??? WTF. Anyway, all she has to do is go on one date with him... and then another... and then he wants more. Honestly, I don't know how she didn’t see this coming. She’s an idiot. She also has a boyfriend, so she’s a cheater in two different senses of the word. Lol.
Honestly, this book had dumb characters, dumb situations, no real threats except Carter’s dad finding out she’s a cheater, an anticlimactic ending... this book was just no good. Everything that happened to Carter... I couldn’t care less. She made a bad decision, so my sympathy for her was very low 🤷♀️
Given her boyfriend, Josh, is missing, supposedly delayed by “car troubles,” you’d think Tina would be worried. But nooo, instead she’s snuggling up to Josh’s roommate Chris! Dude, seriously? Chris was seriously creepy. He knew so much about Tina that it was uncomfortable. But Tina was not the smartest girl in the beginning. A lot of Fear Street characters aren’t smart, to be fair 😆
Overall, it was an okay read. The main character was kinda dumb, but I appreciated that her brain cells were firing when it really counted 😂 And I’m not gonna lie, the book was creepy because it had a creepy dude 😰 So at least there’s that. Lol.
This book was something else. Lily absolutely loses it when a teacher gives her a bad grade, and when that same teacher is then found dead later, guess who’s the main suspect? Yup. Although, to be fair, the teacher was kind of a jerk. Did he deserve to be killed? Probably not. But still. Lol. But also, poor Lily was being run ragged. She had school, she worked on the school newspaper, had homework, PLUS work... damn 😬 It was pretty unfair how her parents put so much pressure on her. But she also kinda overreacts, sooo... 😂
I enjoyed the book overall... it started off pretty good, but once the blackmailing started it was just frustrating. But I do like the whole Fear Street vibe, and Stine is always good at giving descriptions. There was this death at a factory that was super gross and I totally loved it! 😆
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