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A review by bhall237
The Twisted Ones by Kira Breed-Wrisley, Scott Cawthon
3.0
“Don’t trust your eyes.”
Dr. Treadwell walked back and forth across the platform at the front of the auditorium. Her steps were slow and even, almost hypnotic.
“Your eyes deceive you every day, filling in the blanks for you in a world of sensory overload.”
With how dissatisfied and bored I was by Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes, I am shocked at just how much I genuinely enjoyed the follow up, Five Nights at Freddy's: The Twisted Ones.
As soon as I finished the first chapter of this book, I knew two things immediately. One, Scott took some writing lessons and criticisms from the first book to heart and crafted a much tighter and tense book that made the reader want to continue to the next chapter. And second, I knew I would enjoy this book. This was such a well told and creepy story that got under my skin more than a couple of times, and that was the biggest flaw of the first book for me, it wasn’t scary. This book adds a sense of immediacy by having limited locations and a much shorter period of time, and I commend Scott for the steps he took to create something that works so well. My other flaw that drove me nuts from the first book was the detail of having the character’s names at the end of each spoken sentence. Scott cut this and now dialogue is fast, witty, and at times long but earned and without being boring.
The story is something straight out of a nightmare. It takes part zombie inspiration and part psychological science horror and uses tropes from both to craft a story not just good for a piece of Five Nights at Freddy’s media, but a really well done story overall that I believe stands on its own and honestly without the need to read the previous installment. Reading through this book, the comparison of the Star Wars prequel trilogy popped into my mind, and as soon as I linked The Silver Eyes to The Phantom Menace, I knew the rest would sort itself out and go nowhere but up from here.
Overall, I was thoroughly shocked by how much I enjoyed this book and it’s one I would like to read again. With expectations now set high for the final book, and with the cliffhanger ending that was the last chapter of this book, I’m excited to see how this trilogy ends.
Dr. Treadwell walked back and forth across the platform at the front of the auditorium. Her steps were slow and even, almost hypnotic.
“Your eyes deceive you every day, filling in the blanks for you in a world of sensory overload.”
With how dissatisfied and bored I was by Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes, I am shocked at just how much I genuinely enjoyed the follow up, Five Nights at Freddy's: The Twisted Ones.
As soon as I finished the first chapter of this book, I knew two things immediately. One, Scott took some writing lessons and criticisms from the first book to heart and crafted a much tighter and tense book that made the reader want to continue to the next chapter. And second, I knew I would enjoy this book. This was such a well told and creepy story that got under my skin more than a couple of times, and that was the biggest flaw of the first book for me, it wasn’t scary. This book adds a sense of immediacy by having limited locations and a much shorter period of time, and I commend Scott for the steps he took to create something that works so well. My other flaw that drove me nuts from the first book was the detail of having the character’s names at the end of each spoken sentence. Scott cut this and now dialogue is fast, witty, and at times long but earned and without being boring.
The story is something straight out of a nightmare. It takes part zombie inspiration and part psychological science horror and uses tropes from both to craft a story not just good for a piece of Five Nights at Freddy’s media, but a really well done story overall that I believe stands on its own and honestly without the need to read the previous installment. Reading through this book, the comparison of the Star Wars prequel trilogy popped into my mind, and as soon as I linked The Silver Eyes to The Phantom Menace, I knew the rest would sort itself out and go nowhere but up from here.
Overall, I was thoroughly shocked by how much I enjoyed this book and it’s one I would like to read again. With expectations now set high for the final book, and with the cliffhanger ending that was the last chapter of this book, I’m excited to see how this trilogy ends.