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"And then you die!" - The grim message is scrawled across the script of the horror film Christina stars in - is it a joke, or for real?
While shooting a horror film, of which she is the star, young actress Christina becomes the target of a crazed stalker who threatens to kill her.
While shooting a horror film, of which she is the star, young actress Christina becomes the target of a crazed stalker who threatens to kill her.
- GenresHorrorYoung AdultTeen
167 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1993
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May 1, 2022
A spooky cobweb dress with blood-red bookmark sounds like a pretty cool gift tbh.
Our heroine is a bit of a dumdum and has a penchant for poor decision-making (i.e. straight up inviting strangers into private spaces while someone is actively stalking and threatening her), but at least she’s…pretty and can act? I was honestly surprised every time she managed to escape a bit of danger. How are you not dead, girl.
It’s basically a YA stalker thriller with high school drama that takes place on a movie set (fun)!
Our list of suspects is pretty standard:
- Handsy heartthrob with a “King Kong ego”
- Secretly obsessed jock classmate
- The recent ex-boyfriend
- The ever so loyal and not at all jealous best friend
Entertaining in a goofy kind of way with a couple of surprisingly grisly moments! There’s also a very dramatic fight scene that takes place in an old dilapidated castle.
Our heroine is a bit of a dumdum and has a penchant for poor decision-making (i.e. straight up inviting strangers into private spaces while someone is actively stalking and threatening her), but at least she’s…pretty and can act? I was honestly surprised every time she managed to escape a bit of danger. How are you not dead, girl.
It’s basically a YA stalker thriller with high school drama that takes place on a movie set (fun)!
Our list of suspects is pretty standard:
- Handsy heartthrob with a “King Kong ego”
- Secretly obsessed jock classmate
- The recent ex-boyfriend
- The ever so loyal and not at all jealous best friend
Entertaining in a goofy kind of way with a couple of surprisingly grisly moments! There’s also a very dramatic fight scene that takes place in an old dilapidated castle.
August 22, 2022
I haven't had the pleasure of reading anything by Nicole Davidson (or Kathryn Jensen if you will) until now and I can't believe I missed this one a long time ago. I'm beginning to think that Avon Flare books were kind of rare in my neck of the woods or I was just too young to know where to look...oh well...
Christina English has been doing catalogue modeling since she was a little girl and now that she's all grown up she's turned to acting in local theater productions and commercials along with modelling for Seventeen magazine. Her agent says movies could be Christina's big break and a new film is shooting not far from her Connecticut home.
It's a horror movie, not Christina's favorite type of movie, but director Theodore Dreising is well known in the genre. They also say the attractive Kirk Richmond is set to be the lead but for Christina, this is a job, and romance is far from her mind.
Other kids from Hanover High get involved with Christina's ex John Washington and his younger sister Beryl landing work on the crew and as an extra. It may not be what their mother, Beryl's manager, wants for her daughter but any break is better than nothing.
Christina ends up getting the lead role opposite Kirk and even though she is thrilled for the opportunity to pursue her even bigger dream of being an actress...it won't be easy.
Christina has to deal with the horror script calling for her to deal with bugs, hours in the make-up chair and oh yeah...having her character be killed, buried and brought back from the dead! Not only that, Kirk is a jerk and because Christina isn't interested in being romantic with him he makes her days on set a living hell.
Dreising's assistant, Amanda, is clearly in love with him and she tells Christina she won't have her messing up his movie and well Teddy is a character himself with his intensity it frightens Christina.
She won't have any trouble being frightened once Christina receives the calls and threats saying she'll die from someone who calls himself her biggest fan...
We get some good misdirection wondering which characters we are introduced to is behind all the mayhem. Even the female characters might be doing a good job to torment Christina with a disguised voice and hey...there are actresses who would kill for the lead.
There's an introduction of a male character named Steve Jackson who goes to school with Christina and we are given information about him that could either make him the crazy behind all the horrors or a red herring. Most of the characters you can't decide if you should hate them or not but Christina is definitely not deserving of any hate and Kirk is a spoiled, egotistical jerk who needs a good scare.
Things get even more intense and once we get to a certain event...it's when the story finally picks up. Not to say the other incidents weren't terrifying but I didn't expect this one and then I was hooked on learning basically whodunnit...
The reveal and climax were also not what I expected and it surprised me. It might have seemed obvious to anyone else or just as unexpected but I liked it. The ending was generic for most of these type of books with some exposition but it's nice and simple enough to please someone like me who usually likes twists or everything tied up cleanly with a bow.
Haven't read Fan Mail? I highly recommend you try and find a copy. I am eager to see if I enjoy other Nicole Davidson books just as much as I did this one.
Christina English has been doing catalogue modeling since she was a little girl and now that she's all grown up she's turned to acting in local theater productions and commercials along with modelling for Seventeen magazine. Her agent says movies could be Christina's big break and a new film is shooting not far from her Connecticut home.
It's a horror movie, not Christina's favorite type of movie, but director Theodore Dreising is well known in the genre. They also say the attractive Kirk Richmond is set to be the lead but for Christina, this is a job, and romance is far from her mind.
Other kids from Hanover High get involved with Christina's ex John Washington and his younger sister Beryl landing work on the crew and as an extra. It may not be what their mother, Beryl's manager, wants for her daughter but any break is better than nothing.
Christina ends up getting the lead role opposite Kirk and even though she is thrilled for the opportunity to pursue her even bigger dream of being an actress...it won't be easy.
Christina has to deal with the horror script calling for her to deal with bugs, hours in the make-up chair and oh yeah...having her character be killed, buried and brought back from the dead! Not only that, Kirk is a jerk and because Christina isn't interested in being romantic with him he makes her days on set a living hell.
Dreising's assistant, Amanda, is clearly in love with him and she tells Christina she won't have her messing up his movie and well Teddy is a character himself with his intensity it frightens Christina.
She won't have any trouble being frightened once Christina receives the calls and threats saying she'll die from someone who calls himself her biggest fan...
We get some good misdirection wondering which characters we are introduced to is behind all the mayhem. Even the female characters might be doing a good job to torment Christina with a disguised voice and hey...there are actresses who would kill for the lead.
There's an introduction of a male character named Steve Jackson who goes to school with Christina and we are given information about him that could either make him the crazy behind all the horrors or a red herring. Most of the characters you can't decide if you should hate them or not but Christina is definitely not deserving of any hate and Kirk is a spoiled, egotistical jerk who needs a good scare.
Things get even more intense and once we get to a certain event...it's when the story finally picks up. Not to say the other incidents weren't terrifying but I didn't expect this one and then I was hooked on learning basically whodunnit...
The reveal and climax were also not what I expected and it surprised me. It might have seemed obvious to anyone else or just as unexpected but I liked it. The ending was generic for most of these type of books with some exposition but it's nice and simple enough to please someone like me who usually likes twists or everything tied up cleanly with a bow.
Haven't read Fan Mail? I highly recommend you try and find a copy. I am eager to see if I enjoy other Nicole Davidson books just as much as I did this one.
May 14, 2022
"Teenage Sluts" and "Polite Psychos"...a soliloquy!
This was a fun read, taking place almost exclusively on set of a horror movie...how apropos! Christina is the babe you love to hate, the girl who's got it all....good looks, a successful modeling career, and now her first plum acting role...the lead girl in some hotshot director's new horror movie, starring some smarmy mega hunk (I pictured Leo DiCaprio, mid 90's). She gets to play the pretty heroine AND the grody corpse girl...the only trouble is, someone seems to want her dead for realz💀
The usual psycho stalker stuff happens...threatening letters...warnings smeared in blood on her mirror (SFX blood tho)...and one death occurs that is pretty dang GNAR. 🤮 Christina makes a few enemies while working on the film...everyone from her jealous nemesis who is an extra on the film and her awful stage mother, to the smug, entitled lead actor she resists the advances of. But I actually guessed correctly who the culprit was, for a change...I'm usually really bad at that 🙃
Lots of fun pop culture references....Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Psycho shower scenes, talk of how Jamie Lee Curtis got her start in horror films 🎃
3 out of 5 deaths and injuries on set but it's ok! The show must go on and besides, there's no such thing as bad press, right? 💀💀💀
This was a fun read, taking place almost exclusively on set of a horror movie...how apropos! Christina is the babe you love to hate, the girl who's got it all....good looks, a successful modeling career, and now her first plum acting role...the lead girl in some hotshot director's new horror movie, starring some smarmy mega hunk (I pictured Leo DiCaprio, mid 90's). She gets to play the pretty heroine AND the grody corpse girl...the only trouble is, someone seems to want her dead for realz💀
The usual psycho stalker stuff happens...threatening letters...warnings smeared in blood on her mirror (SFX blood tho)...and one death occurs that is pretty dang GNAR. 🤮 Christina makes a few enemies while working on the film...everyone from her jealous nemesis who is an extra on the film and her awful stage mother, to the smug, entitled lead actor she resists the advances of. But I actually guessed correctly who the culprit was, for a change...I'm usually really bad at that 🙃
Lots of fun pop culture references....Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Psycho shower scenes, talk of how Jamie Lee Curtis got her start in horror films 🎃
3 out of 5 deaths and injuries on set but it's ok! The show must go on and besides, there's no such thing as bad press, right? 💀💀💀
December 11, 2022
This was a time capsule of goodness and gave me so much nostalgia. I trusted nobody and every single one of them was sketchy at some point. My only complaint was how our bestie Randi was described multiple times as only being big. It was clearly meant to be mildly insulting. But this was also the era of Heroin chic so I don’t really hold it against the book because it’s 5000% a product of the times. Still it was worth noting it was the only thing I was truly annoyed by.
March 6, 2022
This one was so entertaining and fun, I loved it!
December 11, 2022
5/5 - YA Horror
This book had me thinking everyone in the book was the stalker at one point, including the FMC… and for that I give it 5⭐️
This book had me thinking everyone in the book was the stalker at one point, including the FMC… and for that I give it 5⭐️
July 5, 2016
NOT AN ACTUAL FEAR STREET. I'm just shelving it that way.
The villain was extremely obvious, and the love interest was extremely creepy. It's not just that he kept a collage of pictures of the heroine in his locker at school; it's the part near the beginning where we get to see his thoughts, which consist of him being really angry that she was busy the one time he asked her out. I know it's meant to be a red herring so there's more than one possible suspect, but it went a little too far in convincing me he was fully capable of murder.
The villain was extremely obvious, and the love interest was extremely creepy. It's not just that he kept a collage of pictures of the heroine in his locker at school; it's the part near the beginning where we get to see his thoughts, which consist of him being really angry that she was busy the one time he asked her out. I know it's meant to be a red herring so there's more than one possible suspect, but it went a little too far in convincing me he was fully capable of murder.
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August 2, 2014
Well, I didn't figure out whodunit until the person is actually revealed, but that's all this book has going for it.
Read the rest of my review over on Leafmarks.
Read the rest of my review over on Leafmarks.
April 8, 2016
I read this in middle school and still could read it today.
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