High Tide

Fear Street Super Chiller #12

by R.L. Stine

Adam Malfitan still has nightmares about the night his girlfriend, Mitzi, died. He sees the blood. He sees her in the water. He is a lifeguard, and he can't save her. He wakes up screaming.

Genres: Horror, Young Adult, Thriller, Fiction, Childrens, Mystery, Summer

176 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published June 1, 1997

About the author

Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series.

R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.

Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.

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Reviews

[Lindsey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Truly terrible 😂 I think these actually got worse at the end of the original series run. I’d love to find a chart of all the ghost writers so I knew who to blame!

[Courtney Gruenholz · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'll keep my five star rating for equal parts nostalgia of it being Fear Street and for it actually being a really good story.

Before I go into fully reviewing High Tide, can I just mention that its cover was one of those Fear Street books you probably had to hide from your mom if you were a teenage girl? For the fact that it was probably equal parts because it was horror and it looked like romantic beefcake junk, am I right or is it just me?

Anyway...

Adam Malfitano is back at Logan Beach for the summer working as a lifeguard. It probably isn't a very good idea considering what happened last summer to his girlfriend, Mitzi.

We get to experience the horrible water scooter accident that killed her in Adam's recurring nightmare. The motor of it sliced into her face and body pretty gruesomely but it was an accident because of the waves.

Adam felt extremely guilty and started seeing a shrink after Mitzi's death. It seemed to be helping for awhile but now the nightmare is starting again. Not just that but frightening visions of seeing Mitzi and her decayed, scarred face or imagining that someone else is frantically drowning out past the shore.

Hallucinations that Adam should have died as well, hallucinations that he was maimed by the scooter and losing body parts like his arms, his legs or fish eating away his eyeballs.

His roommate Ian Schultz and his new girlfriend Leslie Jordan (no not that one!) don't think that his psychiatrist, Dr. Thall, is doing that good of a job in helping him. His fellow lifeguard, Sean Cavanna, couldn't really care less with his own temper and jealousy about his girlfriend Alyce to worry about.

Soon, Adam starts getting threatening calls and he gets caught lying to Leslie about cancelling a date to go out with another girl. Adam probably isn't ready to get serious with just one girl again after what happened to Mitzi but she happens to find him out with two girls he graduated from Shadyside High with the following evening, Joy Bailey and Raina Foster.

Leslie does not take it well.

More really messed up things start happening to Adam and he can't tell if they are real or just his screwed up head. Leslie threatened to make him pay and Sean has been treating Adam really poorly as if he wants to punch his face in...or worse. Could all of this be the work of a living and breathing person or is it Mitzi from beyond the grave?

We get a few chapters from Sean's P.O.V. just to understand his character a little more I guess...mostly to see what a crazy temper he has and how he can be a real jerk. It fits together with the plot of Adam's story in a roundabout way and at least we get closure on it instead of it being an open thread.

We get to the reveal of all the horrific things that have happened and it isn't mind-blowing but it is kind of shocking and a little cruel to lead to a suspenseful climax.

The ending is nice, simple and sweet. A good way to end a book that was filled with so much tension and tragedy for our main character which is somewhat unusual for these Fear Street books.

If you haven't read High Tide, I recommend it.

[kylajaclyn · Rating 1 out of 5]

Well, this is one of Stine's worst. The three main guys are all pretty douche-y. Our "protagonist" is Adam Malfitano. He's a lifeguard this summer, along with his "friends" Sean and Ian. He lives with Ian. In the beginning we get alternating chapters between Sean's and Adam's POVs. Sean is the worst, a guy destined to be a wife beater. He flies into a rage when he spots his girlfriend Alyce with some guy he thought was his friend. He vows to get back at this dude, which essentially means crushing him to a pulp.

Adam is plagued by nightmares from the summer before. His girlfriend, Mitzi, got killed by a rogue water scooter that he was driving. It sliced her up (Stine is a sick fuck). Adam sees his shrink, Dr. Thall, for help, but nothing seems to be working. On top of all this his current girlfriend, Leslie, is pissed at him because he went out with another girl when he said he was sick. See? They're all jerks. Adam has also been spending a lot of time with Raina and Joy, two friends from high school. And one day his nightmares repeat themselves. The tide is high one day and Adam cautions the girls about going in the water. They don't listen and begin to drown. Adam gets out and sees Raina unconscious in the water. Joy is struggling, though, and causing him to drown. He decides he has to make a choice. He drags Raina in and tells Joy he'll come back for her. Joy starts screaming hysterically as Adam gets Raina on the beach. She vomits seawater as Adam plans to go back for Joy. Only... Joy is nowhere to be found. Adam has let someone die again. Or has he?

The next day he tries to make up with Leslie and explain his current situation, but when he goes to show Leslie about the drowning in the day's paper, he finds that there's no news on it. Then he begins to take walks on the beach and gets visited by the misty ghost of Joy. A ghost that leaves footprints.

Meanwhile, Adam's apartment is under siege constantly by an unknown intruder. He gets creepy calls warning him that "he's next" and that he'll "pay for what he's done." Then the worst of all... a beheaded seagull wrapped up in his sweatshirt. Why do horror writers always have to kill animals?! I hate it. Adam discovers it's Sean when he catches him in the act of shredding his bed. Sean admits he thought that Adam was Ian. Ian's the one who has been going around with Alyce. Adam tells him to get his fucking temper under control (well, not in those exact words), and Sean agrees that he probably should stop before he seriously hurts someone like he did the year before.

One mystery is solved, but Adam still hasn't found a way out of his nightmares. Raina says she needs to meet him that night to talk, so he obliges. When he shows up she admits that the whole thing was staged. Joy - the real Joy - comes walking across the pier. Here's the kicker: this fake drowning was staged with help from DR. THALL. I think Adam needs to find a new therapist. Dr. Thall thought that perhaps staging a situation similar to the one the year before might help trigger Adam's memory into recalling new pieces of the disaster. Or he could have just done, you know, hypnotherapy like a normal person.

Adam grabs a water scooter and goes out on the water to think. And he sees Ian coming towards him on another scooter. And it hits him: HE wasn't driving the scooter when Mitzi died, IAN was. Ian stole Adam's scooter and his girlfriend too. Adam tried to go in and save her, but it was too late. He came out of the water in shock and inadvertently took the blame for the tragedy. And Ian, that pretty peach, let Adam live in a lie for an entire year. But now that Ian realizes Adam knows he decides that he must kill Adam so he won't tell anyone. He runs his scooter at Adam's, sending Adam overboard. Adam has to keep diving under the waves in order to avoid Ian. But then Ian falls off his scooter after Adam grabs his leg, and Ian's scooter goes rogue and slices his leg. Adam decides he can't let him die, so he drags Ian ashore. Ian is taken to the hospital and Leslie visits Adam at his apartment to make out. The End!

[Pastel Paperback · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as exciting as I remembered.

Adam is a lifeguard (one of Stine's favorite reliable tropes,) and can't seem to shake away the horror of last summer when his girlfriend died. He was responsible. And she drowned.

Now, he's back being a lifeguard at the same beach (questionable re-hire?) and having hallucinations about her death.

Without giving too much away, it was a lot of wtf? Fire that psychiatrist!

I will give it 3 stars for some seriously gnarly-sounding jetski/waverunner deaths (even though in true Stine fashion, most of them are fake-outs.)

[Drucilla · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's your typical Fear Street book. Nothing really makes it stand out except there's a lot less violence in this Fear Street book than the others in the series. There's actually a very interesting ethical/moral/legal question in this book. If one potential drowning victim was causing danger to both the lifeguard and another potential drowning victim, should the lifeguard leave the one causing the danger and come back after he has seen to the other one? The ending seems kind of unlikely, but plausible. I know that's a contradiction, but the mind works in mysterious ways so it could potentially be plausible.

[Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Since it's August now, I wanted to read something with more of a summer vibe compared to books I read in July. High Tide fulfills that, as it's an original 90s Fear Street novel taking place on the beach, so ideal beach horror choice. Adam is trying to get over the death of his girlfriend, Mitzi, feeling responsible that she was killed by his hands on a water scooter. Continuing his summer job as a lifeguard, Adam is still suffering from severe hallucinations since the accident, and it is not helped by his coworker's, Sean's, passive-aggressive antics nor is a falling out with his new girlfriend, Leslie. His therapist believes Adam is hiding a repressed memory deep down that could answer why he's losing his mind. But when an on-duty emergency ends with another life loss, is Adam really losing it when the ghost of the victim is stalking him and no one else recalls a death reported despite his insistent that he was out in the waters?

I had initially read this book back when I was going through a Fear Street binge years ago. Stine's writing is formulaic, not that it's a bad thing. It's simple, easy-to-read, cliffhanger endings, and a good amount of suspense mixed with a little horror gore here and there to keep reader interest. And this book is no exception to that, following the same style, it can seem repetitive to read, but this book managed to do a few things differently that makes it stand out a bit better from other books in the series. Without spoiling much, High Tide is less focused on the horror aspect and more on the suspense and mystery behind Adam's hallucinations, making it more of a page turner. And unlike some of the other books near the end of the original Fear Street run, the ending is not too rushed and leaves on a thoughtful note that gives more closure to all the questions brought up throughout the story. So this book is still a winner, despite it's shorter length, and it was nice to revisit this and add it to my collection of Stine's Fear Street reads.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

Man, I forgot how much I always loved this one! I remembered two of the three twists, but the one at the very end I'd completely forgotten about, and as such it was a very nice surprise.

[Kelsey · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Liliana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reviewed on Lili Lost in a Book

Adam keeps having a recurring nightmares of the death of his girlfriend. She died in a water scooter accident, a horrible accident. We get to witness this nightmare at the beginning of the book and oh my gods, it was very tense! And the descriptions I totally loved! It was incredibly gory and I loved that! There were a couple of other moments like this—tense, terrifying scenes. I totally live for them! R.L. Stine is so great at describing creepy, horrifying things!

One third into the book, there was no real mystery that I could see. Just Adam’s hallucinations and Sean being a bitch ass, whiny prick for no reason (that we know of, lol. But gods, I really hated him). However, I didn’t mind because I was really enjoying the the story. Slowly, Adam starts to realize that someone is out to get him and he has no idea why! And then we get to the reveal...



Holy shit! I was not expecting that! That trauma is real... poor Adam.

All this because a certain someone *cough* Ian *cough* was being a major manwhore -_-

Overall though, I really liked this book! I adored the descriptions, the tension, the suspense, and that insane ending I did not see coming! I really liked the beachy setting and also our protagonist Adam—he was such a nice guy, giving Sean advice when he himself had so much going on in his life. Surprisingly, I liked the unravelling of the mystery with Adam—typically I would be bored if I don’t see what the mystery is all about right at the start, but R.L. Stine just has a way of pulling you in with his writing. I definitely recommend this read!

The Fear Street connection: Um, the book doesn't actually mention it. The book doesn’t take place in Shadyside, but Adam is from Shadyside, that much we know. So my guess is that Adam lived on Fear Street at one point in his life? I don’t know lol. I just thought it was really strange that Fear Street wasn’t mentioned.

[Kristen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Full review at By Flashlight — a YA book blog

Beach lifeguard Adam has been having a rough time after he killed his girlfriend last summer. He just can’t seem to shake the guilt. Roommate Ian, new girlfriend Leslie and a shrink named Dr. Thall are all trying to help him forget and move on.

“High Tide” is actually told from the point of view of a male lifeguard. The POV changes between two guys, but only at the beginning. It was odd that this device is just dropped in the middle of the book. The boys are NEVER described in the book. The only thing we have to go on is the cover. While we don’t get to know how hot the boys are, the girlfriends are so cleverly described: Mitzi — “Long blond hair, legs that went on forever, and a smile that almost knocked me out of my chair; Leslie — “She’s smart and good-looking, with dark brown hair and serious gray eyes;” and Alyce — “a major babe.”

Altogether it was OK. Girls were kind of in the background. Yes, they made the boys do crazy stuff, but other than that, there wasn’t really a point to them. Oh yeah, they were good for one thing — drowning.

[Kristine (The Writer's Inkwell) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Posted originally on my blog:
The Writer's Inkwell
This is one of those Fear Street novels that doesn't even take place on Fear Street or even in Shadyside. Adam is a college kid who graduated from Shadyside High. After an accident leaves his summer girlfriend dead, he is left struggling to deal with his guilt. A year has passed and though he's trying to move on, he's begun to hallucinate.

For a Fear Street novel, this one was fairly tame and even average. The twist leads into a random murder attempt and when I say random, I mean it. It doesn't make sense and it's almost as if it was added as an after thought. I suppose I get why it was added, the book as a whole was kind of..,. off? I don't know, if I had to recommend a Fear Street novel, this one wouldn't make the list.

[Chelsea · Rating 3 out of 5]

High Tide is another beach book and again Stine decides to tell the tale in different perspectives...kind of. Only a short number of chapters are told from Sean's point of view, a hot headed lifeguard that is really possessive of his girlfriend. The rest of the book is about Adam, a lifeguard who couldn't save his girlfriend last summer and is now faced with the guilt. He's hallucinating, having nightmares, and getting no where in therapy...but he's back at the beach hoping to get over the horror once and for all. Plus, his current girlfriend is insanely jealous...not to mention his sketchy roommate.
It was fairly predictable, low on horror or anything really happening...it was a no-body count book other than the initial accident in the prologue. And why do they keep referring to a jet ski as a water schooter?!?

[Kat · Rating 2 out of 5]

I agree with the majority of the reviewers here. It's your typical Fear Street book.

I'm now in my early 30s but grew up on these books and got my hands on any and every one I could read. I remember them fondly but also remember they were very tame. Sometimes not even including any real horror elements.

A lot of these books consist of hallucinations and fake deaths or fake ghosts or jokes. This book is no different.

I like going back to these to review for my site (as they are 1 day reads) But also to recapture some of my teen years. I'm sure an 11yr old may be spooked from this. But I highly doubt a 17yr old would be.

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book because as a teen I was a Fear Street Junkie! I have very fond memories of reading the Fear Street Series. By the time this book was published I was a bit too old. I decided to relive my teenage years. I also want to introduce the series to my middle school students.

As an adult, this book is very predictable. As a middle school student, not so much. I think that the drama and mystery are fantastic YA writing.

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of these are pretty cheesy and predictable, but this was a better one. It was surprisingly deep and dealt with the results of trauma and memory loss. Besides the main character's dickish moves to his girlfriend, the author also delved into psychotic rage of another character. True, the chapters end up on the dramatic cliffhangers, but the ending is satisfying (does he ever tell what he found and what happens next?) and it's well done.

[Melissa Namba · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not the shiniest of the R.L. Stone books. You start to wonder how stupid the protagonist is right away. However, I can see how a teenager would enjoy it. Its a simple read and can be done in one sitting. There isn't anything overly adult in it so you don't have any explicit scenes that some teens might not want to read.

[Alejandro · Rating 5 out of 5]

The high tide is coming! The high tide is coming!


This a prose novel which is part of the “Fear Street Super Chiller” book series.


WELCOME TO PSYCHO BEACH!

You are in Logan Beach (which obviously isn’t on Shadyside since I already mentioned in other reviews of novels of this book series, that it seems inconceivable that good ol’ Shadyside could be a port town with some beach around, nope, it’s a fictious town but always that the narrative needs a beach, the action moves to other fictious town, geez, I wouldn’t bother that much if the book series wouldn’t be title Fear Street, therefore, silly me, I’d humbly expect that the story would be located, I don’t know, on Fear Street, is that so wild to think?), as I say, you are in Logan Beach, but easily this place could be renamed “Psycho Beach” because everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY! is quite psychotic, and each one has some level, high or low, of mental issues…

…this is NUTS!!! (literally… and pun intended!)

Our protagonist is Adam Malfitano (in Goosebumbs is kinda 50/50 the average of male protagonists and female protagonists, but in Fear Street I’d noticed that it’s more usual to have female protagonists, so having a male protagonists once in a while is interesting (of course since in this book, everybody is quite mental, maybe it was for the better to have a male protagonist (but for being bluntly honest, in several Fear Street books, you have female protagonists without having all their marbles in place) so I guess that it was just convenient to the story to have a male protagonist in this occasion), he is a llfeguard but one year ago, he had a traumatic tragedy (I think that he’s the only character in the book with a fair justification of why he’s not totally mentally healthy), where his girifriend, Mitzi, died at sea during an accident with a water scooter and Adam feels guillty about it.

Saying that he’s having hallucinations is coming up short! He’s like having one freaky hallucination on each chapter where he’s narrating (since for some odd reason, there are several chapter being narrated by other character (Sean Cavanna) and I’d prefer otherwise since that other chracter is quite detestable (and believe me or not, he’s not the worse character in the book!).

Adam has a roomate, ian Schultz, and good ol’ Ian thinks that everything of Adam is at his disposal and open free for his personal use.

Dr. Thall is Adam’s psychiatrist but everybody thinks that he’s a humbug since he’s being treating for a year to Adam without showing any sensible improvement (but believe me, when Dr. Thall would try more drastic measure to cure him… well, you’d prefer that would leave Adam alone).
Sean Cavanna is a lifeguard partner of Adam, and he’s one of the major mental cases in the book, jealous slalker that thinks that any woman in which he’s interested, she’s not having any option than going out with him and she can’t have any other male relationship…

…and that peachy man is entrusted with the safety of innocent people at the beach!

Alycee Serkin is the poor girl who’s the new target of Sean.

Leslie Jordan is the new romantic interest of Adam (good thing that he lost his previous girlfriend just one year ago in a bloody tragic accident and while he’s not totally recovered (for being too nice describing his current mental health) but he’s up to have a new girlfriend already (where good ol’ Leslie doesn’t count with all her marbles in place, trust me)…

…for not saying that Adam also is talking just too friendly with Joy Bailey and Raina Foster too! (Oh! Just peachy! Mitzi isn’t totally cold in her coffin and Adam just building a harem!)

Why this book is rated so high having a bunch of wackos with questionable attitudes? Easy, since the master of storytelling, good ol’ R.L. Stine surprises us once again with twist over twist over twist where you can’t trust anybody, even you can’t trust what you’re reading and the worse thing that you can do is jumping too eager to conclussions!

Don’t trust anybody here, but…

…you can trust that R.L. Stine will shock you with a brilliant tale!

[DeSean Blackwell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Murderous water scooters, hallucinations, psychopathic lifeguards and unethical psychiatrists- High Tide brings High drama!

Mild spoilers-

Last summer Adam took his girlfriend Mitzie on a ride on his water scooter that ended in a gruesome accident that took Mitzie's life. Now after finishing his first year of College, Adam has come back home to Shadyside for the summer and is resuming his lifeguard job at a nearby beach, but the memories of what happened to Mitzie still traumatizes him and he begins to experience horrific hallucinations. It doesn't help when he ends up budding heads with his Lifeguard partner, Sean, who's temperamental and extremely violent and has a known history of beating people to near death. Soon enough, someone begins harassing Adam with strange phone calls which fuels his horrific hallucinations even more and the tension between him and Sean begins to reach a boiling point.

This was a fun enough read; I was hooked for most of it, and it actually turned out to be well plotted, doesn't seem like Stine pulled too much of this out of his ass except one subplot- There is a ridiculous revelation that a drowned character actually isn't dead, and they and their friend were just helping out Adam's psychiatrist in an experimental "test' to get Adam to remember the full details of what happened the summer Mitzie died-Adam isn't angry, he knows his doctor was trying to help and I'm like...the fuck? By further traumatizing you? By breaking doctor/patient confidentiality and telling your old high school friends all your business? lol Oh Stine, this is why we love you.

But other than that, one dumb revelation, the rest of the story was actually solid. I give it two stars only because I'm sure I'll forget about it in the next few hours and probably won't revisit it again, but I do like how Stine actually does set up all the clues and hints cleverly (minus the nonsense psychiatrist twist). I was actually really into the Sean portion of the story and enjoyed reading things from his twisted mind and was actually sad when his POV was dropped, I get it, it was to keep the mystery of things intact for our lead character, but I felt like Sean could've been used more effectively than he was. I thought following both POVs was where the book worked best.

[Destiny Richter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Adam keeps having recurring nightmares of the death of his girlfriend. She died in a water scooter accident, a horrible accident. We get to witness this nightmare at the beginning of the book and oh my gods, it was very tense! And the descriptions I totally loved! It was incredibly gory and I loved that! There were a couple of other moments like this—tense, terrifying scenes. I totally live for them! R.L. Stine is so great at describing creepy, horrifying things! One third into the book, there was no real mystery that I could see. Just Adam’s hallucinations and Sean being a whiny prick for no reason (that we know of, lol. But gods, I really hated him). However, I didn’t mind because I was really enjoying the story. Slowly, Adam starts to realize that someone is out to get him and he has no idea why! And then we get to the reveal... And holy crap! I was not expecting that! That trauma is real... poor Adam. Overall though, I really liked this book! I adored the descriptions, the tension, the suspense, and that insane ending I did not see coming! I really liked the beach setting and also our protagonist Adam—he was such a nice guy, giving Sean advice when he himself had so much going on in his life. Surprisingly, I liked the unraveling of the mystery with Adam—typically I would be bored if I don’t see what the mystery is all about right at the start, but R.L. Stine just has a way of pulling you in with his writing. I definitely recommend this read! The Fear Street connection: Um, the book doesn't actually mention it. The book doesn’t take place in Shadyside, but Adam is from Shadyside, that much we know. So my guess is that Adam lived on Fear Street at one point in his life? I don’t know lol. I just thought it was really strange that Fear Street wasn’t mentioned.

[Megan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Adam is trying to put last summer behind him. He is a life guard and last summer his girlfriend, Mitzi, drowned and Adam wasn’t able to save him. This summer is going to be different. His current girlfriend, Leslie, is tries to help and be supportive especially when Adam is still having nightmares about Mitzi and has starting having hallucinations about her. Sean is Adam’s lifeguard buddy, but he is constantly angry. Adam starts getting strange calls and finds a dead seagull wrapped up in one of Adam’s sweatshirts. Who is trying to freak Adam out? Adam’s shrink tries something radical by enlisting two of Adam’s friends from Shadyside High, Raina and Joy to pretend to drown. Adam was only able to save Raina, or so he thought. However, Joy is alive and well and helped Adam’s psychiatrist to try to jog Adam’s memory about what else happened that day (which is why his doc thinks he’s still having nightmares and has started to hallucinate). Turns out it did work and Adam remembers that his roommate, Ian is actually the reason why Mitzi died. Adam tried to save her after, but he was too late. Turns out Ian was dating Alyce, the girl Sean wanted to date, and he thought Adam’s sweatshirt was his (since Ian borrowed it) and thought it was Ian who picked up the phone. When Adam figures everything out Ian tries to kill Adam by running him over in the jet ski. Well, Ian is the one who gets injured and Adam saves him. Sean and Alyce start dating.

I really enjoyed this story. I didn’t figure anything out ahead of time.

[Brennen DIT · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is an OK book and a somewhat good plot. Adam, the lifeguard gets a new girlfriend who died in a jet ski incident last summer and it is making him go crazy. He keeps experiencing hallucinations and nightmares about that moment. The next summer two of his friends from high school are visiting the beach and one of them dies in the water due to a strong current. He saves one but he doesn't know if he made the right choice because his hallucinations and nightmares are getting worse. Now he has two ghosts haunting him.

[Sreypich Van · Rating 2 out of 5]

Things started out slow with a lot of hallucinations, nightmares and jealously. I don't know what the girls see in these boys because they seem pretty shallow and childish to me. The twist wasn't that surprsing at all and I'm dissapointed. We could have saved ourselves the time if the characters knew how to get straight to the point and not act mysterious, but it wouldn't be fun that way, am i right?

[Amber "Epp" · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the super chillers ......... lol the fear street series all the books are just great for teens I adored them ... I used to devour these books in my teens I highly recommend this series to anyone who wants to get all teenagers reading rather than playing video games

[Kristen Fort]

Some old Fear Street book popped up in recommendations so I took a trip down memory lane and adding the ones whose covers I remember as "read" even though the year I read this and the others was so long ago. Haha.

[Khurshid Ali · Rating 4 out of 5]

Let’s head back to Fear Street.

Let’s head to the beach for a summer not to be missed.

Imagine returning to the beach a year on from losing your partner in an accidental death

Imagine having vivid dreams of that every night
Imagine hallucinating every day.


Suddenly

You are seeing the ghost of your partner
You are receiving strange calls
Your bed is slashed

Something is not right
Your doctor thinks you are repressing memories

The doctor is right- you are
This truth will set you free
This truth will change everything

Read to find out for yourself, what the truth is

[Jocelyn M · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have no shame giving this four stars on this reread for nostalgia's sake. It's so corny but I devoured it once again haha. I will say that the guy characters are all the type I would NOT want to date.

[Tabitha · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a disappointing end to the Super Chillers! Adam is a lifeguard who is still haunted by the death of his girlfriend on the water from last summer. There aren't any supernatural elements, and the twist is tame. It wasn't super, and it wasn't chilling.

[Marina · Rating 1 out of 5]

🤦🏻‍♀️

[Kristin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ugh. The jealous abusive boyfriend trope. Why would they let him be a lifeguard (i.e. protecting and saving lives) when he’s having hallucinations?

[Morgan Sherrill · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finally finished this one! Not sure which one I am going for next but we'll see. I was going to rate this higher but then I saw the reviews on here and realized that people were definitely right.