A review by gwendolyn_kensinger
Beach House by R.L. Stine

4.0

Summer 1956, a bunch of teens are hanging out at the beach: Maria, Amy, Stuart, Ronnie, and Buddy. They all decide to prank Buddy by stealing his trunks when he's in the water and forcing him to come out to the beach naked. Later Maria stands him up on their date for Stuart. Buddy is pissed and bad things happen. 

In the "this summer" timeline, there's Ashley, Ross, Kip, Lucy, and Brad. All of them are summer visitors to the beach, except for Kip and Brad who live there. Lucy and Kip are together. Ashley and Ross are together. 

The cool part of this story is there were things that are revealed that I had a hard time believing if they were made up, a dream, or if it was actually happening. I’m not sure that was the intent, but it added to my personal reading experience. 

(Copied from another reader’s review) – what you can expect from Beach House 

🏖 Some silly beach pranks 

👫 MANY teenagers and the drama that goes with it 

😦 A few creepy characters 

👙 Many stylish (or not) summer outfits 

🦈 SHARKS 

🌫 Fog that’s coming out of nowhere 

🩸 A couple of graphic scenes