A better reading experience
This a prose novel which is part of the “Goosebumps: Most Wanted” book series, and it works like a loose sequel to “Dr. Maniac vs Robby Schwartz”.
NOT SO HARD TO RATE THIS TIME
While the first book Dr Maniac vs Robby Schwartz wasn’t that good, this loose sequel (since there isn’t any of the main characters of the previous but the villains) resulted a better reading experience since it was more interesting and ambitious, even it has an unexpected twist kinda dark, or at least quite awful to the protagonist of this second book.
DR. MANIAC RETURNS!
In this loose sequel, you have now Richard Dreezer, a different kid, but as you may expected, he is a big fan of comic books (but only that, he isn’t self-published author like Robby Schwartz), he has little brother named Ernie, a female classmate Bree Birnbaun (that she doesn’t like him but she needs to work with him for an assignment) (Richard has a kinda crush for Bree), there is another classmate Marcus Maloney (a kinda antagonist but he isn’t that important).
Richard has some allergies (or at least his mom is convinced about it) and he needs to go a doctor’s office of a physician named Dr. Root, his office is just in front of the Comic Book Museum, where the curator is a character known as Big Kahuna, and soon enough, Richard will pay a visit to the Comic Book Museum (that he knows every inch of it) but he will meet the new inhabitant of the museum…
…DR. MANIAC!!!
Along with the infamous Dr. Maniac, there is old acquaintances from the previous book, The Purple Rage and the Scarlet Starlet, but also new superpowered characters like Captain Croaker and Terry Tadpole, and…
…even Dr. Maniac will have a new mysterious ally!
There are funny details in the story like a “Ditko Avenue” (like in Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man) and the school is named “Hugh Jackman Middle School”.
As I commented before, while my experience with the previous book with the villlain Dr. Maniac wasn’t the best (not terrible but definitely the book could be better), I found this loose sequel quite imaginative and with a really funny but also kinda dark final twist.