A review by szara
Blackbird by Andrea Waggener, Kelly Parra, Scott Cawthon

4.0

This was another mixed experience. The first story was interesting and I really liked the Blackbird itself and what it represented (I loooove its design we see on the cover!), but overall it was an average Fazbear Frights story. The second one is a complete opposite of that. This was the only story in the series that had no clear link with FNAF as a whole but this is not why I wish it wasn't in the collection. I am fully aware this is a franchise about murdered children but it's also all fictional and creepy and comfortably unhinged from reality. I don't seek out cancer stories, I actively avoid them, so I am kind of upset that Scott Cawthon tricked me into reading one. Because "Real Jake" was a heartbreaking story of a slow death of a brilliant child that was TOO real. I appreciate the writing and the execution but I don't like that I've read it. The third story in the collection was my favorite. I liked how the main character was constructed and reading his point of view. Shadow Bonnie was a great addition to animatronic/supernatural characters we know from the games that appear in Fazbear Frights stories and its existence was skillfully woven into the story. Until the very end I wasn't sure if we'll get a good or a bad ending but what we got hit just right. The epilogue chunk, though? Wow. A lot of pieces are falling into place but I honestly can't believe we got a Megazord Afton.