Category: Review
Author: R.L. Stine
Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, To-read, Young Adult
Series: Fear Street Relaunch
How many nightmares begin in the Fear Street Woods? Eddie and Emmy are high school sweethearts from the wrong side of the tracks. Looking for an escape from their dreary lives, they embark on an overnight camping trip with four friends in the Fear Street Woods. As Eddie carves a heart in a tree, he and Emma make a shocking discovery. It’s a discovery that will lead to the end of friendships—and to murder. Meanwhile, Emmy is having strange, terrifying dreams about wolves. Are her dreams connected somehow to the real wolf attacks that plague the town of Shadyside? Emmy, it seems, is about to make a horrifying discovery about herself…
Never having read a Fear Street Novel, I wasn’t quite sure what I’d find reading “Can You Keep a Secret?” by R.L. Stine. This YA mystery-thriller was good enough to keep me reading, but I didn’t find it an amazing read. The characters did things in the story that didn’t seem logical, even for 16 year olds in a difficult situation. There was also a folklore aspect to the story that didn’t have the effect that I’ve seen in other books.
I must say that there were several twists and turns to the story to keep the reader guessing, but they were not enough to help out the overall quality of the story. It seemed more like some of those twists and oddities just complicated the story, bringing it down.
Purchase through: Once Upon A Time
Can You Keep a Secret? (Fear Street Relaunch, #4)
