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pantehnreads's review
5.0
I loved this one!!!1 Seriously loved it cause the two before are good but were not as good as the first 3 in saga so I was losing hope. Then I read this one and I gotta say it made me excited again to finish this series. The inception of the amulet is told in this one and it is a fabulous story with great twists and turns.
manwithanagenda's review
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.0
Fear Street # 85
'The Sign of Fear' takes us back to Matthew Fier as he finishes walling himself up alive in order to protect the Fear Amulet from discovery in 'The Betrayal'. His chronic laughter doesn't prevent him from musing about the origins of the amulet in the distant past, or about when he reacquired the amulet for himself when he was a young man.
We're following two timelines here. The first is in Britain in 50 CE, about the time the Romans were conquering the island in earnest. The other is in the late 17th century in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Our protagonists, such as they are, are Fieran, a Celtic spellcaster, and Christina Davis, a young woman recently orphaned. The stories are connected by the amulet, but, um, details are very hand-wavey and there's really no attempt to develop these characters or the magic. We feel bad for Christina, who is sold into slavery by her cruel Aunt to an odd household, but we don't really get a sense of who she is except for who she has a crush on. Fieran has some clearer goals, but his limited personality is subverted to the needs of the plot. The only thing I liked was Christina's - not a Puritan name by the way - entrance where she gets ahold of the amulet in a nice, subtle way. The death scenes were fine, but I'd like to have an inkling of depth to characters to really enjoy a good liquification.
The least this story could have given me was an amulet-forging scene. We don't get it even though we "witness" the creation of the Fear Amulet.
This book is weak enough that I feel confident in skipping the rest of the Sagas except for 'Daughters of Silence', which returns to Angelica and Simon Fear, and 'The Awakening Evil', which is an origin story for the evil that stalks Shadyside Cheerleaders. For those following along, I will still include them in the numbering so they can be read in order by those wanting to.
Fear Street in Publication Order
Next #86: 'Runaway', Fear Street #41
Previous #84: 'Fright Christmas', Ghosts of Fear Street #15
'The Sign of Fear' takes us back to Matthew Fier as he finishes walling himself up alive in order to protect the Fear Amulet from discovery in 'The Betrayal'. His chronic laughter doesn't prevent him from musing about the origins of the amulet in the distant past, or about when he reacquired the amulet for himself when he was a young man.
We're following two timelines here. The first is in Britain in 50 CE, about the time the Romans were conquering the island in earnest. The other is in the late 17th century in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Our protagonists, such as they are, are Fieran, a Celtic spellcaster, and Christina Davis, a young woman recently orphaned. The stories are connected by the amulet, but, um, details are very hand-wavey and there's really no attempt to develop these characters or the magic. We feel bad for Christina, who is sold into slavery by her cruel Aunt to an odd household, but we don't really get a sense of who she is except for who she has a crush on. Fieran has some clearer goals, but his limited personality is subverted to the needs of the plot. The only thing I liked was Christina's - not a Puritan name by the way - entrance where she gets ahold of the amulet in a nice, subtle way. The death scenes were fine, but I'd like to have an inkling of depth to characters to really enjoy a good liquification.
The least this story could have given me was an amulet-forging scene. We don't get it even though we "witness" the creation of the Fear Amulet.
This book is weak enough that I feel confident in skipping the rest of the Sagas except for 'Daughters of Silence', which returns to Angelica and Simon Fear, and 'The Awakening Evil', which is an origin story for the evil that stalks Shadyside Cheerleaders. For those following along, I will still include them in the numbering so they can be read in order by those wanting to.
Fear Street in Publication Order
Next #86: 'Runaway', Fear Street #41
Previous #84: 'Fright Christmas', Ghosts of Fear Street #15
caidyn's review
3.0
I liked the ending of this. A nice twist, but not as bloody and gory as the usually are.
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