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A review by paulabrandon
The Best Friend by R.L. Stine
5.0
When R.L. Stine gets it right, he really gets it right!
This Fear Street version of Single White Female is scary and fun. It's also cleverer than most people give it credit for! Honey may be a few books short of a library shelf, but Becka isn't exactly the poster child for calm and collected!
As everybody knows, the ending was so unpopular that a contest was created to decide how Honey should get her comeuppance in a sequel.
However, I thought the ending worked perfectly well with what came before it. What was so creepy and unsettling about Honey was that we never really knew where she was coming from or what was motivating her. She wants to be Honey's best friend and absolutely nothing will stand in her way!
This is my favourite Fear Street book - heck, one of my favourite books of all time. I've read it many times over the years. It's perfectly paced, with little nuances you don't usually get in a R.L. Stine quickie - as mentioned before, Becka is more than a bit prone to hysteria and may possibly be an unreliable narrator.
What a pity they had to tarnish this near-perfect slice of teen terror with a silly sequel.
This Fear Street version of Single White Female is scary and fun. It's also cleverer than most people give it credit for! Honey may be a few books short of a library shelf, but Becka isn't exactly the poster child for calm and collected!
As everybody knows, the ending was so unpopular that a contest was created to decide how Honey should get her comeuppance in a sequel.
However, I thought the ending worked perfectly well with what came before it. What was so creepy and unsettling about Honey was that we never really knew where she was coming from or what was motivating her. She wants to be Honey's best friend and absolutely nothing will stand in her way!
This is my favourite Fear Street book - heck, one of my favourite books of all time. I've read it many times over the years. It's perfectly paced, with little nuances you don't usually get in a R.L. Stine quickie - as mentioned before, Becka is more than a bit prone to hysteria and may possibly be an unreliable narrator.
What a pity they had to tarnish this near-perfect slice of teen terror with a silly sequel.