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fluffs's review against another edition
3.0
Decent "Fear Street" book. Full of twists but ending is sort of expected
kittypaws9's review against another edition
2.0
Full review at By Flashlight — a YA book blog
Beach lifeguard Adam has been having a rough time after he killed his girlfriend last summer. He just can’t seem to shake the guilt. Roommate Ian, new girlfriend Leslie and a shrink named Dr. Thall are all trying to help him forget and move on.
“High Tide” is actually told from the point of view of a male lifeguard. The POV changes between two guys, but only at the beginning. It was odd that this device is just dropped in the middle of the book. The boys are NEVER described in the book. The only thing we have to go on is the cover. While we don’t get to know how hot the boys are, the girlfriends are so cleverly described: Mitzi — “Long blond hair, legs that went on forever, and a smile that almost knocked me out of my chair; Leslie — “She’s smart and good-looking, with dark brown hair and serious gray eyes;” and Alyce — “a major babe.”
Altogether it was OK. Girls were kind of in the background. Yes, they made the boys do crazy stuff, but other than that, there wasn’t really a point to them. Oh yeah, they were good for one thing — drowning.
Beach lifeguard Adam has been having a rough time after he killed his girlfriend last summer. He just can’t seem to shake the guilt. Roommate Ian, new girlfriend Leslie and a shrink named Dr. Thall are all trying to help him forget and move on.
“High Tide” is actually told from the point of view of a male lifeguard. The POV changes between two guys, but only at the beginning. It was odd that this device is just dropped in the middle of the book. The boys are NEVER described in the book. The only thing we have to go on is the cover. While we don’t get to know how hot the boys are, the girlfriends are so cleverly described: Mitzi — “Long blond hair, legs that went on forever, and a smile that almost knocked me out of my chair; Leslie — “She’s smart and good-looking, with dark brown hair and serious gray eyes;” and Alyce — “a major babe.”
Altogether it was OK. Girls were kind of in the background. Yes, they made the boys do crazy stuff, but other than that, there wasn’t really a point to them. Oh yeah, they were good for one thing — drowning.
corkycorcoran's review against another edition
3.0
Truly terrible 😂 I think these actually got worse at the end of the original series run. I’d love to find a chart of all the ghost writers so I knew who to blame!
katiepooh13's review against another edition
3.0
I read this book because as a teen I was a Fear Street Junkie! I have very fond memories of reading the Fear Street Series. By the time this book was published I was a bit too old. I decided to relive my teenage years. I also want to introduce the series to my middle school students.
As an adult, this book is very predictable. As a middle school student, not so much. I think that the drama and mystery are fantastic YA writing.
As an adult, this book is very predictable. As a middle school student, not so much. I think that the drama and mystery are fantastic YA writing.
paperbackstash's review against another edition
4.0
A lot of these are pretty cheesy and predictable, but this was a better one. It was surprisingly deep and dealt with the results of trauma and memory loss. Besides the main character's dickish moves to his girlfriend, the author also delved into psychotic rage of another character. True, the chapters end up on the dramatic cliffhangers, but the ending is satisfying (does he ever tell what he found and what happens next?) and it's well done.
manwithanagenda's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
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
2.0
Fear Street # 98
A plot with genuine surprises and my admiration for some totally legitimate psychiatric practices combats with my absolute disgust for the relationship dynamics present in 'High Tide' makes for a noice Super Chiller! I remember the Super Chiller's being, uh, bigger, but its literally 16 more pages. Was the Super part, the Maturity of the protagonists? Everyone's in college and living in apartments or rented cottages with roommates.
Adam can't stop thinking about how his girlfriend Mitzi drowned last summer, and about how it was all his fault. He's haunted by vivid nightmares of that fateful water scooter ride and awake he has hallucinations of missing limbs, phantom scooters, and dead girls. For some reason he and his doctor still feel he's adequate as a lifeguard at Logan Beach....
Another lifeguard and erstwhile buddy is Sean, who is violently jealous about his "girlfriend" Alyce, whose every word and gesture indicates she wants nothing to do with him. He entertains Adam with a story about how he once almost beat a guy to death for going out with his girl after a slow campaign of escalating threats. He tells Adam to not look at Alyce again. Fun guy.
Adam's current girlfriend is Leslie, who has some anger problems of her own, albeit a trifle more legitimate. She totally freaks out when Adam breaks a date with her, saying he isn't feeling well, being mentally ill and all, and she sees him holding hands with some floozy from the beach. She should really just calm down.
Rounding out the main cast is Adam's womanizer roommate Ian who consistently borrows all of Adam's clothes, his car, and doesn't buy groceries. But, he doesn't complain too much when Adam's screams wake him up in the night, so he's a keeper.
There are a couple of fellow Shadyside alums, Joy and Raina, who show up on the beach for a good time and then there's TV Psychiatrist Dr Thall who has been working with Adam for a year on those nightmares and may resort to some experimental treatments....
No one in this book deserves to be in the horrific, toxic relationship hell they are in. It was stunning. Sean's behavior is supposed to be disturbing, but where Stine ends up going with it....wow. The 1990s were not that long ago, but a whole lot more was tolerable. I enjoyed the insane plot twists, but its the couples that will keep me up at night. This should really get five batshit stars, but I just can't.
Fear Street in Publication Order
Next #99: 'The Creature from Club Lagoona', Ghosts of Fear Street #21
Previous #97: 'Spell of the Screaming Jokers', Ghosts of Fear Street #20
A plot with genuine surprises and my admiration for some totally legitimate psychiatric practices combats with my absolute disgust for the relationship dynamics present in 'High Tide' makes for a noice Super Chiller! I remember the Super Chiller's being, uh, bigger, but its literally 16 more pages. Was the Super part, the Maturity of the protagonists? Everyone's in college and living in apartments or rented cottages with roommates.
Adam can't stop thinking about how his girlfriend Mitzi drowned last summer, and about how it was all his fault. He's haunted by vivid nightmares of that fateful water scooter ride and awake he has hallucinations of missing limbs, phantom scooters, and dead girls. For some reason he and his doctor still feel he's adequate as a lifeguard at Logan Beach....
Another lifeguard and erstwhile buddy is Sean, who is violently jealous about his "girlfriend" Alyce, whose every word and gesture indicates she wants nothing to do with him. He entertains Adam with a story about how he once almost beat a guy to death for going out with his girl after a slow campaign of escalating threats. He tells Adam to not look at Alyce again. Fun guy.
Adam's current girlfriend is Leslie, who has some anger problems of her own, albeit a trifle more legitimate. She totally freaks out when Adam breaks a date with her, saying he isn't feeling well, being mentally ill and all, and she sees him holding hands with some floozy from the beach. She should really just calm down.
Rounding out the main cast is Adam's womanizer roommate Ian who consistently borrows all of Adam's clothes, his car, and doesn't buy groceries. But, he doesn't complain too much when Adam's screams wake him up in the night, so he's a keeper.
There are a couple of fellow Shadyside alums, Joy and Raina, who show up on the beach for a good time and then there's TV Psychiatrist Dr Thall who has been working with Adam for a year on those nightmares and may resort to some experimental treatments....
No one in this book deserves to be in the horrific, toxic relationship hell they are in. It was stunning. Sean's behavior is supposed to be disturbing, but where Stine ends up going with it....wow. The 1990s were not that long ago, but a whole lot more was tolerable. I enjoyed the insane plot twists, but its the couples that will keep me up at night. This should really get five batshit stars, but I just can't.
Fear Street in Publication Order
Next #99: 'The Creature from Club Lagoona', Ghosts of Fear Street #21
Previous #97: 'Spell of the Screaming Jokers', Ghosts of Fear Street #20
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