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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
mysterious
medium-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
I'm not sure how I knew this would be a palate cleanser for all of the 'Fear Street' I've been ingesting...but it kind of was. Hoh's characters are brighter and more realized and just horror-flick enough to be entertaining. The setting is also more realistic by comparison with Shadyside and I loved the details of college life that Hoh inserts.
Delle Arlen loved cheerleading in high school and feels that getting onto Salem University's JV-squad would be quite the feather for her freshman-year-cap. That's a thing, don't worry about it.
There is a week-long boot camp for those looking to try out for the team. This is especially critical because a tragedy last spring left the coach and five members of the JV-team dead and one injured and unwilling to rejoin the team. The two remaining members, the dishy Rory Hanahama and the bitchy Marla Pines weren't on the bus that day. Very suspicious...?
In the spirit of team-building all those trying out have to live for the week in the rarely-used Abbey House dormitory next to the old Peabody Gym. The two buildings are all that remains of the Salem Girls' Normal School that was later merged into the University when it went coed. The gym is notorious for having it's very own ghost: the Red Lady. Legend has it she was a cheerleader a hundred years ago who died in a fiery hoop incident. Sure. Cheerleading has always been intense.
'The Scream Team' really starts off when Delle wakes up to a fire in her room and has a vision of the Red Lady. Coach Truite has no time for ghost nonsense and accuses Delle of smoking in her room and starting the fire herself. I can't say that I blame her, especially as the fire was in the trash can. What a weird thing for a ghost to do!
There are other incidents that lead Delle and her new friends Mojo, Joy, Susan, and Greg to suspect that SOMEONE wants to harm the cheerleaders!
This was uncomplicated, a trifle suspensful, and fun. 'The Scream Team' only loses points because the villain reveal seemed a bit rushed.
I like that Hoh so far with the 'Nightmare Hall' books has kept a pretty tight control of the timeline, but isn't afraid to let stories play out. The books are unafraid to go back to the beginning of the semester. This book only takes a week, but others follow characters over several months and reference other titles through characters showing up at Vinnie's Pizzeria or in the Student Center cafeteria. Sometimes you get a really fun bonus like in 'The Scream Team' when Delle muses about her roommate, Lacey Sakurada, and if it was somehow her roommate who is behind all the troubles at the boot camp as she's the only other person she knows on campus so far. She laughs at how absurd that idea is. Amazing! I believe Lacey is the floor's RA in 'The Roommate', or perhaps just a nice neighbor, either way it's a great detail that puts both books in a specific time frame without tying things up.
I am going to read more of these since I got a big lot of them recently as well as other Point Horror titles, but I'm going to really curb my impulse to get the rest of the series. It's only 29 books, but uh, I'd like to get back to regular novels at some point in my thirties.
Nightmare Hall
Next # 6: 'Guilty'
Previous # 4: 'The Wish'
Delle Arlen loved cheerleading in high school and feels that getting onto Salem University's JV-squad would be quite the feather for her freshman-year-cap. That's a thing, don't worry about it.
There is a week-long boot camp for those looking to try out for the team. This is especially critical because a tragedy last spring left the coach and five members of the JV-team dead and one injured and unwilling to rejoin the team. The two remaining members, the dishy Rory Hanahama and the bitchy Marla Pines weren't on the bus that day. Very suspicious...?
In the spirit of team-building all those trying out have to live for the week in the rarely-used Abbey House dormitory next to the old Peabody Gym. The two buildings are all that remains of the Salem Girls' Normal School that was later merged into the University when it went coed. The gym is notorious for having it's very own ghost: the Red Lady. Legend has it she was a cheerleader a hundred years ago who died in a fiery hoop incident. Sure. Cheerleading has always been intense.
'The Scream Team' really starts off when Delle wakes up to a fire in her room and has a vision of the Red Lady. Coach Truite has no time for ghost nonsense and accuses Delle of smoking in her room and starting the fire herself. I can't say that I blame her, especially as the fire was in the trash can. What a weird thing for a ghost to do!
There are other incidents that lead Delle and her new friends Mojo, Joy, Susan, and Greg to suspect that SOMEONE wants to harm the cheerleaders!
This was uncomplicated, a trifle suspensful, and fun. 'The Scream Team' only loses points because the villain reveal seemed a bit rushed.
I like that Hoh so far with the 'Nightmare Hall' books has kept a pretty tight control of the timeline, but isn't afraid to let stories play out. The books are unafraid to go back to the beginning of the semester. This book only takes a week, but others follow characters over several months and reference other titles through characters showing up at Vinnie's Pizzeria or in the Student Center cafeteria. Sometimes you get a really fun bonus like in 'The Scream Team' when Delle muses about her roommate, Lacey Sakurada, and if it was somehow her roommate who is behind all the troubles at the boot camp as she's the only other person she knows on campus so far. She laughs at how absurd that idea is. Amazing! I believe Lacey is the floor's RA in 'The Roommate', or perhaps just a nice neighbor, either way it's a great detail that puts both books in a specific time frame without tying things up.
I am going to read more of these since I got a big lot of them recently as well as other Point Horror titles, but I'm going to really curb my impulse to get the rest of the series. It's only 29 books, but uh, I'd like to get back to regular novels at some point in my thirties.
Nightmare Hall
Next # 6: 'Guilty'
Previous # 4: 'The Wish'