Review: The Perfect Date (Fear Street #37) by R.L. Stine

Title: The Perfect Date

Series: Fear Street #37 (Can be read as a standalone)

Author: R.L. Stine

Genre: YA, horror, mystery thriller

Publication date: April 1996

Published by: Archway Paperback

Source: Own paperback

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Synopsis: Perfect... perfectly evil.

Brady Karlin is getting on with his life. The memory of his girlfriend—killed in a gruesome sledding accident last year—is beginning to fade. Now he's met Rosha Nelson, the girl of his dreams. And he's never been happier.

Until Brady starts to see a strange figure -- with a terribly scarred face—following him everywhere. Until the horrible accidents start happening—every time Rosha's around.

Has dating Rosha made Brady's dreams come true? Or brought his worst nightmares back to life?

My rating: ★★☆☆☆

This book was... interesting. And kind of insane. Lol. So Brady starts dating this girl, Rosha, and soon after “accidents” start happening. Is she incredibly clumsy or is she trying to kill Brady? 👀

You know what, I would not blame her for the latter. Brady was awful! I hated him! He was a smug prick and a two-timing asshole. I could not stand him! On top of that, he was a jerk to his friend Jon. I honestly don’t know how any of his friends stand him. And the fact that Allie, who seemed nice, was into him, was beyond me!

But let’s talk about the plot twist, because it was WEIRD.

The book ended with a gruesome fight between Rosha and Sharon (Brady’s old girlfriend who died), which was pretty cool lol, but it left me a little confused. They were both dead... but not? Like, ghosts inhabiting a corpse or something? Are they zombies? Ghosts? I don’t know! And then Brady died too? AND THEN, for whatever reason, Allie freaking took him back, UGH! I did not like that. I almost wish he would’ve gotten it worse by, I don’t know, Sharon inhabiting Allie and then really killing him for good. That would’ve been good 😊 Lol.

This book was fine. I hated Brady but liked the side characters. I really don’t know how they could stand that prick though. The Rosha/Sharon plot twist was interesting, though I’m still a little confused about how that worked. I would’ve liked to know more about that. It was just kinda... meh. One fun easter egg though: Mei Kamata from What Holly Heard was mentioned. Lol.

The Fear Street connection: Rosha lives on Fear Street because of course she does. Lol.

Brady’s heart pounded. Fear Street had a reputation for being strange. Sudden, unexplained drops in temperature. Kids disappearing. Weird howls in the woods at night.

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