No Answer

Fear Street Seniors #4

by R.L. Stine

Two months after her sister Justine falls down the stairs to her death, Clarissa Turner hears from her sister through a telephone psychic, who brings the information that Justine has been murdered, and Clarissa soon realizes that she may be the next target.Two months after her sister Justine falls to her death, Clarissa Turner hears from her sister through a telephone psychic, who brings the information that Justine has been murdered

Genres: Horror, Young Adult, Teen, Thriller, Horror Thriller, Childrens, Mystery

176 pages, Paperback

First published August 18, 1998

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

[Brandon · Rating 4 out of 5]

No answer is the fourth book in The Fear Street Senior series.And out of all of the books so far I honestly feel like this one has the most potential to be ghost written.There are certain things in this book that just didn't feel like Stine. I could be wrong.But regardless this book was really good.The story starts off with Clarissa going to a cemetery to visit her sister Justine.We learn that her sister passed away last year due to a freak accident where she fell down the stairs while talking on the phone.The parents are kind of testing Clarissa ,because she just got out of a clinic.She had basically a nervous breakdown.We learn that Clarissa is moving in to her sister Justine's old room, because their parents are adopting a kid named Aaron.Of course they fight over this a little bit.But we quickly get to the part where I honestly don't think Stine wrote this.Chapter two or three and there is a part where the ghost of Clarissa's sister shows up in her room.She points to a dresser drawer and basically beckons Clarissa to open it.When she does she finds this notebook with a paper on the back of it giving her a number to a psychic hotline. Clarissa quickly calls this number and talks to Justine.Justine mentions that it wasn't an accident that killed her but instead somebody murdered her.She tells some of her friends and her boyfriend named Will about what went on with the phone call.Will of course doesn't believe her but her other two friends do, Deborah and Mira.While looking for answers she opens up her closet door and finds a loose floorboard and discovers a secret panel inside. She finds a fake driver's license and a diary.It turns out that there's a little bit more that meets the eye with Justine.She broke up with her boyfriend and ended up dating a guy nicknamed Slash.She has nicknames for everybody that she talks to.We also learn that she steals cars and all kinds of bad stuff.When we finally get Aaron in the picture.This book gets a lot creepier.We learn that Aaron's parents died in a robbery where the killer tied up his parents and threw them in the water making Aaron terrified of water in the process.Aaron also had one of the best exchanges with Clarissa where he goes inside Clarissa's room and claims his parents are with Justine in Heaven.That's honestly where I'm going to leave this.This book was really intriguing all the way up to the great climax at the end.This book had a very different ending than most of these books so far where it actually just ended on a happy note. Showing even more evidence of a not feeling like a Stine type book.One thing I will mention too is Will is probably one of my least favorite characters in this book.There's a scene where he's telling her Clarissa he doesn't believe her about the ghost and he claims that she's trying to pull a prank ,which under any other circumstances would work.But this is her sister that died .Why would you pull a prank like that? Other then that this book was really good. I don't think it was quite as good as In Too Deep, number two in the series but it's definitely better than the last one I read.I probably give it a four out of five stars.The only issues I had with it was really the pacing.There is a few scenes that are a little slow but not to bad.

[Matthew MacIntyre · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book four and finally a senior dies. Finally! This book follows a previously unmentioned senior class member Clarissa, who is just retuning from the mental hospital after a six week stay because she was dealing with the trauma of finding her sister Justine dead at the foot of the stairs. When she gets back home Clarissa’s family is adopting a boy Aaron so she decides to move in to Justine’s room. There she receives a phone call from Justine which leads to finding her diary and a knife which reveals Justine was living a double life. So Clarissa wants to find out who murdered her. So along with her friends Debra and Mira and boyfriend Will she is determined to find out the truth. Also Justine’s spirit leads Clarissa to a psychic who has a connection to help solve everything. Super fast paced book and a few obvious outcomes, the killer is easily spotted. But I find Stines work although fear street is my favorite, to be fairly predictable and formulaic. I’m super excited that an actual senior class member died! Only took four books. I hope the next book steps it up and we get multiple deaths, I want what the first book promised a doomed senior class.

[Austin Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5⭐

[Courtney Gruenholz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fourth entry into the series and it is getting better...so far.

The last one was okay but this one makes up for it.

Clarissa Turner's sister Justine died in a horrible, tragic accident. She fell down the stairs and broke her neck...her little sister finding her.

It left Clarissa traumatized...institutionalized to deal with her grief. She's gotten better and now it's back to Shadyside High for her senior year to try and move on.

She's getting an adopted brother soon, five-year old Aaron. The Turners went through this before Justine's untimely death but Clarissa feels her sister is being replaced. Her mother and father say it might help all of them cope with the loss.

Clarissa moves into Justine's old room to give Aaron her old one and the first thing that happens is Justine's ghost comes to her. Clarissa thinks she's going crazy but the spirit leads her to a phone number in a notebook...a psychic hotline of a woman named Renata.

Clarissa calls it with her friends Mira Block and Debra Lake at her side. The woman tells her things the other girls don't know, things her sister couldn't even have known, before channeling a different voice.

Justine's voice, calling Clarissa by her special nickname, telling her it wasn't an accident...her death was murder.

Clarissa is determined to find out who killed her sister but when she finds Justine's hidden diary and a knife...she realizes she didn't know her sister at all. She was dating a guy she only refers to as "Slash" and he was obsessed with her...almost to a point of madness.

Clarissa and her two best friends call Renata again and this time when she makes contact with Justine...the spirit has another warning.

One of them...is going to die.

Still dealing with paranormal circumstances due to the curse, this one is more of mystery. This ghost story is more believable than the second one and has more of a sentimental, personal tone to it. The first book was a good introduction and the third was just a "vampire episode" in the show...so to speak.

We get an actual death of someone we have gotten to know since the beginning so it is getting a lot darker in that respect. That's the one difference between the other Fear Street books and the series.

99 Fear Street, The Cheerleaders, Seniors...we're getting to know characters and actually caring about them. Well a few of them anyway...

Still eight books to go and all of that can change but as of right now, this is the best one I've read.

Some good twists, a devastating reveal, a thrilling climax and a bright spot ending in what we know is eventually going to be...DOOMED!!

Sorry I just can't help myself ;D

[C. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Okay, someone we’ve heard of right from book one gets killed! That’s more like it.

…that came out a little more bloodthirsty than I intended. But, you know, the premise going in was that the entire senior year crowd are doomed, so the stakes are only high if the characters with actual page time are at risk.

It’s a slight fake-out, though, because it’s a character we’re given some reason to dislike: Debra Lake, who’s been cheating on her boyfriend Josh Maxwell since book one. Look, usually I wouldn’t care about highschoolers “cheating;” you’re kids, guys, you don’t have to know who you’ll commit to forever at this point. But it’s kind of cruel to not let the person you’re dumping know you’ve moved on, and then yell at him when he “spies on you” in the course of trying to find out where you are and why you’ve stood him up. It’s not like she broke up with him and then he followed her around.

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[Justin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I finally read this novel and I was completely shocked. I knew something bad was going to happen but I never expected a twist to make things go fatal attraction. I literally could not put this book down and I am happy that I didnt.

[Cinthia Torres · Rating 5 out of 5]

I remember reading this as a kid, always gave me nightmares! Definitely a good read though, loved this book.

[Lindsey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good old phone calls from the dead Fear Street trope, along with an introduction of a new senior to the character sheet, and our first real main character death.

[Kacey Laine · Rating 5 out of 5]

These nostalgic teen screams have been so entertaining to read!

[Eric · Rating 4 out of 5]

Started this series when it first came out, when I was in junior high, but abandoned it somewhere along the line. I think I read this one at the time--certain moments and images stood out to me as familiar, but I couldn't remember how it wrapped up. Anyway, as far as Fear Street books go it's a pretty fun read, with the pros outweighing the cons. The plot is fast-moving and not too predictable, the characters are likeable and avoid being too stupid (though admittedly they're archetypes without much depth), and there's enough believable teen angst and relationship drama to remind you that these are high schoolers. Stine is good at creating a sense of cinematic atmosphere, particularly in the graveyard at the book's opening and Fear Lake at the climax, with relatively few words. Of course it does have the typical annoyances--fake-out scares (relatively few this time around, and thankfully nobody shouts "Gotcha!" after pretending to be dead or something), repetitive writing style ("She was dead. Justine was dead!"), and an insistence on "colorful" dialogue tags (in a typical verbal exchange characters will murmur, mutter, point out, cry, declare, gasp, giggle, want to know, wail, moan, insist, shriek, or stutter more often than they will simply say something). I also felt that the ending was unsatisfying, particularly in the way that Clarissa's communication with her dead sister Justine simply fizzles out; there should have been some kind of resolution to that relationship. But if they ever make a Fear Street TV series, which they absolutely should, No Answer would translate pretty well to a visual medium.

[Chelsea · Rating 3 out of 5]

Clarissa's sister Justine died in a horrible accident and Clarissa is only now released from the hospital to start her senior year at Shadyside High. She's so happy to be reunited with her friends Debra and Mira and her boyfriend Will. However, she also sees her sister's ghost who points her to a phone number for a psychic hotline. Hearing her sister's voice she discovers her sister was in fact murdered, then there's the reveal of a secret diary hidden in the floorboard. Suddenly, Clarissa realizes she didn't know Justine at all as she uncovers her sister's secret life with a dangerous boyfriend. It becomes a race to figure out the killer's identity before someone else is murdered. They fail and the first real character dies in this one thus proving Trisha's vision of the senior class being doomed to be true. While it wasn't a huge shock who the killer was, there was some pleasant surprise sprinkled throughout this one and I liked it. It was slow moving for sure but the end reveals were fun.

[Jack Reacts · Rating 5 out of 5]

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Snippet: I really enjoyed this one, it is the best Fear Street Seniors book so far. I don’t remember the last time I enjoyed a Fear Street this much. I looked forward to picking the book up whenever I got the chance to read, and it was hard to put down. It kind of felt like a self-contained, standalone story, much like In Too Deep, but had enough connecting it to the overarching Seniors storyline, so it didn’t seem out of place. Did the whole Justine phone thing make sense? Not really, but it was fun, and the book was enjoyable enough that I was able to overlook how silly it was. I thought the adoption storyline would be a bigger problem for Clarissa in the book, but I’m glad she...

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[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

I remember loving this one when I first read it, but this time around I couldn't get past how creepy the Will thing is. Also, the fact that they had Clarissa put "Mira Block" as her dislike in the yearbook pages - um, really? Someone should probably have caught that in editing.

[Diana · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was interesting. I like the mystery around the sister and the boyfriend. And this is the first book where one of the main seniors dies BUT I didn’t like that Clarissa ended up with Will at the end. I find him too creepy and toxic. She definitely deserved someone better.

[Joshua · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a fun read despite the fact that there are so few characters in it that is is blatantly obvious who the killer is. A little strange how the main character is okay with dating her dead sister’s ex-boyfriend but we are talking about 90s YA horror, where things don’t have to make sense!

[Sreypich Van · Rating 3 out of 5]

That was fun to read and I definitely wasn't expecting that twist at the end. It's crazy how jealousy can make people do crazy things.

[Stephanie Wubben · Rating 3 out of 5]

Didn't read like any of the others. It felt off.

[Hope Vollm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Actually pretty eerie.

[Paul Lê · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was expecting a way bigger swing at the end, after all that setup for one.

[Morgan Sherrill · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this one, we even kinda get a major death in this one which we hadn't gotten until this entry.

[*_Kathleen_* · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book again! Loved this part!!

[Shey · Rating 5 out of 5]

These book are really fantastic.