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The Nightmare Room #3

by R.L. Stine, Marina Atanasijević (Translator)

U rukama držite ključ senovitog sveta drhtavica i vriskova. Zakoračite izvan bezbednog, ugodnog sveta koji poznajemo. Otključajte vrata straha. Unutra ima mesta za još jednoga u... SOBI KOŠMARA.

Poželi srećan rođendan Megi O`Konor, onoj stidljivoj, lepuškastoj devojčici pred gatarinim šatorom. Megi je s prijateljicama došla da se zabavi na vašaru. Ali njeno rođendansko slavlje neće dugo potrajati. Neće mnogo proći od časa kad proročica uzme njen dlan da joj iz njega pročita sudbinu do Meginog prestravljenog krika. Jer ona zapravo nije ušla u gatarin šator. Megi je stupila u SOBU KOŠMARA.

R. L. Stajn je najtiražniji pisac za mlade svih vremena. Njegove knjige prodate su širom sveta u više od trista miliona primeraka. Posle velikog uspeha serijala Ulica straha Stajn vas vodi korak dalje, u najmračnije uglove mašte, gde se, daleko od sigurnog sveta koji poznajete, krije Soba košmara.

Genres: Horror, Childrens, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult, Horror Thriller, Middle Grade

118 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

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

[Audrey · Rating 3 out of 5]

This actually has some creepy moments. Poor Maggie keeps accidentally hurting people. This out-of-control feeling taps into a universal fear. I did not guess the ending.

Stine likes to do these cliffhanger chapter endings that turn out to be nothing. It’s kind of annoying.

Language: Clean
Sexual Content: None
Violence: Mild
Harm to Animals: None
Harm to Children: None
Other (Triggers): Bullying, embarrassing moments, real evil character

[CG. · Rating 3 out of 5]

"My Name is Evil". Is the third book in RL Stine's "Nightmare room" series, it follows a girl by the name of Maggie O'Conner, who starts experiencing uncontrollable, (and at times very dangerous) powers, after an eventful birthday at the carnival...
I found the idea of a typically kind, and quiet girl getting unexpected and unwelcome powers, only to inadvertently be using them for evil- to be a pretty good concept/ set-up.
And it turned out to be a spooky, and quick read for me in the end.

(*And although the "villain"/reveal was a bit cheesy and ham-fisted, I didn't think it detracted too much from the story as a whole.
*Also the book turned out to be greatly different than the "my name is evil" nightmare room episode. Much to my surprise.)

Overall: 3.3 stars.
⭐⭐⭐

[Austin Smith · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book reminds me a lot of Son of Slappy from the Slappyworld series.
Our main character, Maggie, is told that she's evil by the local fortune teller at their carnival. Soon after, bad things begin to happen to those around her. It seems like anyone she gets close to is at risk for injury. Could it be that Maggie really does have some kind of bad luck or evil powers that she's inadvertently projecting on others...?

I really liked this one in the first half. You get a real sense of friendship between Maggie and her friends, who happen to be triplets known as the "Three J's". (Jackie, Judy, and Jilly). This sort of character dynamic was a bit different and I'd say it worked pretty well -- they each had their own little personalities and tied into the story in some way.
Much of the first half establishes these relations and sets up the series of unfortunate events that are to follow. A few bizarre things happen, such as an out of control lawnmower, and Jilly being "pushed" down the stairs. Things continue to snowball and Maggie is soon ostracized by her peers as rumors spread about her.

The story starts to lose steam in the second half as there's not much progression of things, only a snowballing effect of unlucky situations and bad events. Similar to Son of Slappy, our main character doesn't spend much time trying to figure out what's going on, and helplessly watches as her friends get hurt and they accuse her of witchcraft.
There is a bit of emotion and seriousness to this, and you do feel for Maggie a bit... but the repetitive nature of the story causes the tension to fade out a little instead of increasing towards a payoff... speaking of which...
The big reveal of the cause of her powers, and the resolution to the matter, is all very abrupt and corny. There's really no setup or evidence as to who the true culprit ends up being, and the climax all takes place within the final chapter or two, making for an unsatisfying resolve. This isn't too unusual for Stine.

This book had an interesting concept and had the potential to be better had the twist come earlier and Maggie had something to work towards, instead of needlessly dragging out that she might have evil powers and bad things keep happening.
Overall I did enjoy this one but very lightly. I expect this will fall somewhere in the middle of my eventual Nightmare Room ranking.

2.5⭐

[Nazanin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I first read this when I was 12 and I remember that I obsessed with it! I lost the book unfortunately but I really want to read it again.

[Cassandra · Rating 2 out of 5]

These books are so dorky. I love them

[Optimus · Rating 1 out of 5]

Uhhh... I dont even know where to start with this mess...
I have so many questions and no answers...

The ending is not good.. Some parts are just plain stupid.


Sooo SPOILERS from here:

The true villain is seriously the dumbest i have ever read...The plan that he did was to transfer his power to the main character, and to frame her for killing an animal, theft, attempted murder of her friends and their animal... Just because her three friends de pantsed him in a school play?!

Holy moly... Thats the worst/greatest villain motivation i have ever heard 😂😂😂

What would he have done if they threw toilet paper at his house? Or god forbid did a YouTube prank bro? 🤦‍♂️


My god, everything that he did through the book is going 0 to 1000 for no reason!! This has got to be the craziest reason for revenge and most over the top way to do it i have ever seen 🤣🤣🤣

[Alejandro Joseph · Rating 4 out of 5]

Back from a quick hiatus with a Nightmare Room read, and safe to say this series keeps delivering. Obviously Carrie influenced, this entry has an abysmal title (it’s unbelievably cringe) yet a very good story behind it. The characters are solid and there’s some elements of drama within here that complimented the story well. There’s some stellar scenes that push boundaries within kids horror, though not to the magnitude of the bleacher scene in Say Cheese—and Die Screaming. The Nightmare Room books seem to be heavily character driven and it’s helping give this series a more grounded and engaging tone that I dig, especially here in this one. There’s a great mystery of what’s truly going on, an awesome twist near the end that both makes sense and hugely changes the story, and great entertainment value. Sadly, I shall now criticize this book: the red herrings and underused elements. There’s a fortuneteller who appears, once far later in the book, and it serves—a handful of nothing. There’s potentially a Werewolf’s First Night/How I Met My Monster/Girl Who Cried Monster esc twist hinted at—and it turns out to be a random and undisclosed red herrings. There’s a scene very early on that sets up something involving a tattoo—but it means absolutely nothing and is never touched upon again. It’s like Stine didn’t know how he wanted the book to end, but he clearly did considering the big reveal being laid right under our noses the whole time. It’s not good writing and this stuff could’ve been either cut or expanded upon, maybe even played a huge role in the reveals and the ending (ending was okay by the way). Moving on… the book is a lot of rinse-and-repeat and it goes on far too long, almost to where it’s a bore even if it is riveting and driven well by character drama. The main character feels quite blind to what is happening, though not to the actual twist. She even points out her denial—which is good—but it happens far too late in the story I feel. And to wrap this up, Glen played a huge role into the climax and he was a really solid character overall, but I wished we got some explanations when it comes to the… well, read the book and you’ll know. Vagueness works but an explanation would’ve sufficed here. Overall, 8/10. Well-done, fun—but immensely flawed in certain aspects. Her name is Maggie, not Evil.

[Negar · Rating 3 out of 5]

اسم دختره مگي بود و از اونجا من خيلي از اين اسم خوشم اومد :دي

[Bahman Bahman · Rating 2 out of 5]

On good-natured Morgan's birthday, he and his friends go to a carnival where he is made a fool of by his pretty classmate Kristin...and declared evil by a fortune-teller. The next day, when his friend Jason is revealed to be going out with Kristen instead and she says she asked him before Morgan asked her, Morgan is angry and feels his arm itching just before Jason has an accident, and Kristin gets Jason to believe Morgan was responsible. The same thing happens when Jason sinks through the ground after beating him at track-team tryouts, but Kristen turns every student, even his and Jason's friend Justin, against Morgan. The fortune-teller reveals how the whole thing started innocently, but Morgan seems to have grown an uncontrollable power to lash out at others with, at the cost of others' trust.

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Similar to Goosebumps, this middle grade thriller follows Maggie who has just turned 13. When she and her friends visit a fortune teller at the carnival the old woman reads her palm and declares her to be evil.
But Maggie is just a normal girl, isn't she?

This was a fun read and intriguing. I find this series quite a tough one to track down so it was great to find this in a charity shop recently.

[Knjiški Ahilej · Rating 3 out of 5]

Preduga radnja, kraj jedino donekle zanimljiv. 2.6

[Tina · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was interesting to read this one. Nice plot twist in the end. Of course read it in Slovene.

[Lu ✨ · Rating 1 out of 5]

Creo que este fue uno de los libros más feos que leí de R.L. Stine.
No tiene mucho sentido, es DEMASIADO fantasioso y el final es muy malo.
Lo leí hace bastante, pero recuerdo que me pareció malísimo.
Sin embargo, como todos sus libros, es muy ameno y entretenido.

[Tina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Didn't like this one.
It's not my thing when the chapter ends with a scream and then it turnes out to be something very banal

[Amir Arsalan the nameless · Rating 4 out of 5]

از بهترین کتابای استاین بود. هیجان کتاب اونقدر زیاده که نمی تونی زمین بذاریش. در نهایت هم با یه پلات توییست خفن تموم میشه که دیگه اون اوجش بود.

[Tiffany Spencer]

My Name Is Evil
Maggie has just turned 13 and wants to be thought of as more sophisticated. She’s hanging out with her best friends (triplets) Jackie, Julie, and Jilly who have made her cupcakes. Jackie is the funn, loud, outspoken one. Julie is the brainy one. Jilly is the spacey one (Maggie and Jilly are into dance). After this, they head to a carnival on the pier.

Jackie wants to do something “Wild” for Maggie’s bday and drags them into a tattoo tent. Only Maggie doesn’t want a tattoo, but then she sees a dragon tattoo that catches her eye. It says “My name Is Evil”. Maggie runs out of there and they tell her it was all just a bad joke. Maggie wonders why she thought her best friends would try to force a tattoo on her. They run into Maggie’s crush (Glen). Maggie decides she’s gonna get the courage up to invite Glen over soon. When Glen finds out it’s Maggie’s bday, he says it was his bday the previous day. He then kisses her hand. Her friends push her into Glen and they almost fall over (telling her to kiss her boyfriend). Glen wishes her happy bday again and then leaves embarrassed. After this Jackie, convinces Maggie to go to the fortune teller’s tent. As they go in to see “Miss Elizabeth” Maggie gets a bad feeling.

She announces to “Walter” that they have visitors. Walter is her deceased husband that helps her channel. Jilly goes first. She studies her plam and tells her. She’s artistic, a hard worker, and she studies dance. She tells her she has much talent but sometimes her artistic side gets in the way of her practical side. She’s social and her boyfriends mean a lot to her. She asks will she make the new dance company. She says Walter has no answer. He just groaned.

Judy goes next. She tells her she has gret love for animals. She also has an animal she cares for very much (a cat). She tells Judy she’ll have a long successful life (of kids). She’s also correct with Jackie. Then it’s Maggie’s turn. She lets out a gasp and drops Maggie’s hand. Then she starts screaming and yelling for her to get out. She tells her she brings evil. Jackie and her friends taunt her mercilessly outside. She tells Maggie it’s probably just an act for more money. Maggie confronts Jackie and asks if if’s a joke, but Jilly says it’s not. They all tell her they should just forget about it and enjoy the carnival but Maggie says she just wants to leave. Then they get back to the house, Maggie shows her friends show magic tricks from a kit she got. They tell her to make the pizza appear and the doorbell rings. She says for Jackie to give her (her) necklace so she can make it disappear. Jackie tells her not to lose it. It belonged to her grandmother. When she tries to make it reappear, she does just that.

But she makes it “appear” in Jackie’s pocket. Jakie doesn’t see the humor in it the joke being on her. The triplets cat “Pumper” hops on Maggie’s lap and tries to steal her pizza. When she tries to shove off, the cat goes wild and starts to scratch and bite her. Jackie says it’s because Maggie is evil (which she also said at the beginning of the book when she licked all the icing off the cupcakes). Maggie leaves after that. On the way home, she wonders what made the cat go berserk. She thinks of the evil things Jackie has done. How she cut the elastic in Glen’s pants so he wa standing on stage in his underwear and how she continues to call him “Tarzan”. She decides to go back to see Mrs. Elizabeth to tell her off. The carnival is almost deserted. All the booths are closed down. She reach’s the tent but the flap is shut. Maggie decides she’ll just ask her why she said what she did. She calls out to Mrs. Elizabeth but there’s no answer. What she sees makes her gasp. The table is overturned. The chairs are splintered. The glass ball has been broken. The poster with the hand she saw before is ripped to shreds.

Maggie decides to put what she saw in the tent behind her. She’s going to audition with Jilly to get into the dance school. There’s only one spot. On day, she comes home to find Glen cutting the grass and finds out he cuts all the yards in the neighborhood. Julie and Janet come by and start to try on all her makeup. (She has a lot of it). Maggie asks her in reutn to try on her necklace. As she admires it on herself in the mirror, Janet says maybe she’ll leave it to her in her will. Somehow the her canary gets out of control and flies into the closet and won’t come out. Maggie says she wants to kill her. Janet is able to catch the bird, but then they hear Glen screaming from outside. The lawnmower has gotten away from him. It runs into a tree, pulls him down, and then he yells it’s cut off his foot. (Again while Janet is in Maggie’s room she tells her she’s so evil).

False Alarm tho. It’s just scratched. He says the lawn mower just took off weirdly. After he leaves, Jackie teases Maggie about using her evil powers on his lawn mower. She apologizes and says she’ll never say it again. A cold wind comes through the window and Maggie sees a yellow feather. She then notices her bird “Chrpy” is lying still on it’s side. She’s dead! So they all bury Chirpy but Maggie thinks about how she yelled at her “I could kill you for this.” Her friends don’t blame her and Jackie keeps her promise. On the way out, Jackie notices some old occult books on a bookshelf that Maggie never noticed. Jackie t and Judy quickly leave. Maggie asks her mom is she’s evil (has evil powers). Her mom tells her of course not. Wouldn’t she have shown proof of it by now. The books come from her mom’s college years. She said she wrote her senior paper on strange beliefs.

Jakie calls later freaking out. She can’t find her necklace. At school, after talking to Glen, Maggie decides she’s definitely going to audition (He wishes her luck). But then she gets this weird sensation in her hands. She sees Jilly and calls out to her, but she doesn’t hear her. She lightly puts on her and Jilly falls down a set of steps and cracks her head on the ground. Jilly sits up and wants to know why she pushed her, but Maggie says she just lightly tapped her. Jilly says she felt her shove her, but Maggie says she didn’t touch her. Everyone is staring at her. Jilly has a scratch on her shoulder and her leg. Maggie points out that Jilly’s shoelace is untied. Gilly keeps saying she could have killed her and asks if the dance tryouts meant that much to her.

Maggie goes to check on her after school. She finds out from Judy its just a train but she’s at the doctors. Judy believes it was an accident. She doesn’t believe that Maggie would try to intentionally try to hurt her sister. Jackie then shows up and asks about her necklace. Maggie says she didn’t find it and that she’s searched everywhere. She says she’ll keep looking. She then hugs Jackie and says she wasn’t accusing her. Then she leaves. Judy says Jackie’s been emotional since the necklace disappeared. “Plumper” jumps on Maggie, but this time he just snuggles against her.
Maggie’s hand starts to tingle and burn, but when she pats him (like Judy suggested) nothing happends. However, Jilly gives her the cold shoulder at the auditions. Maggie gives a decent audition and gets complimented by her teacher. Jilly’s audition is really (really) good! Maggie’s hands start to tingle and burn again. Then Jilly starts to twirl faster and faster and faster. Maggie sees that she’s not moving on her own. Jilly hits the wall and then crumbles to the floor. Jilly is in a daze when it’s all over. But she’s coherent enough to say that Maggie did *this* to her just like she caused the lawn mower incident. She then calls Maggie evil. Maggie loses it and starts to go off and yell she’s not evil.


She’s not! She’s not! She’s not. Jilly is taken to the hospital. The rest of the auditions are called off. Before she leaves, the teacher tries to tell Maggie Jilly was just upset. She tells her to try to put it out her mind. She probably won’t even remember later. Maggie asks what happened and the teacher admits she doesn’t know. The teacher says she’s made it into the school. But Maggie doesn’t feel like celebrating. On the way home, she runs into Glen (who came to check on her audition). She tells him everything that happened. She asks if he believes that she didn’t do it, and he says yes, but Maggie sees in his eyes he thinks it’s too much of a coincidence. He then leaves her abruptly. But when Maggie turns to look, he’s still standing in the same spot staring at her. Maggie goes to Jilly’s house, but only Judy is there. Again, she has to explain to Judy what happened. She decides not to tell Judy Jilly blamed her, Jilly asks if she was wearing any kind of weird cream on her hand when she was petting Plumper. Maggie says no. Judy comes back out carrying Plumper. His skin is yellow and splotched. All the hair fell out where she touched him.

Later, Maggie’s dead beat dad calls. Before they hang up she asks if there’s something werid about her and he says he can’t talk about it now and the connection goes dead. A lot of people are cold with Maggie in school. Jackie tells her she has a sprained ankle and two bruised ribs. Maggie says she wants to see her but Jakie says she thinks Maggie casts a spell on her and that the fortune teller was telling the truth. The doctors tried to take sense into her and she says they told her she just got carried away, but Jilly says something was forcing her to spin. She says Judy isn’t in school. She and her mom had to take her to the hospital. There are now red and purple sores all over his body. She apologizes for all of it. She says it’s not a good idea for her to come over but she’ll come over Maggie’s.

At Maggie’s, Jackie goes to look at her cosmetics again but in the top drawer, she finds her necklace. Then she calls her evil again. As she’s calling her evil, Maggie’s hands tingle and then starts to pull Jackie’s finger back and she breaks it. Jackie starts to run out the door but she falls outside and takes off running yelling leave her family alone. At school, the kids start to freeze out Maggie. Judy is the only one still speaking to her. Maggie thinks she has to think of a way to prove to everyone that she doesn’t have evil powers. Then she gets an idea. She marches over to the triplets table and says she’s going to concentrate and nake one of her classmates trip and when it doesn’t happen they’ll see she has no powers. Well, not only does she cause the classmates to trip she causes several others to trip. Then tfood starts flying and people start vomiting. She tries to will it all to stop but all that happens is her hands get hotter and hotter.

Eventually, Maggie finds herself at the mall where she runs into Mrs. Elizabeth who takes off running when she sees her. Maggie blocks her but the woman is adamant she can feel the evil in her strongly. Maggie tries to get her to look again and she says it's there on her hand. It came when she turned thirteen. She calls Jackie later and tells her she’ll try to use her magic for good. She’ll concentrate her powers to get her an A on the test. Jackie is hesitant but says she’ll see.

The next day instead of getting Jackie an A, she gets her a bloody nose. Jackie before leaving points at Maggie and says EVIL. Maggie realizes she can only use her powers for evil and she can’t control them. All the kids start to chant EVIL! EVIL! EVIL! EVIL!. Glen suggests Maggie help out at the community center for an event for a day for the pets. If nothing bad happens they’ll have to see she isn’t evil. Once there, Maggie sees Plumper has escaped and is about to attack some mice. She gives him back to Judy but Judy yells at her to get out. They don’t want her there. Judy is screetching at the top of her lungs and now everyone is staring. And again she’s telling Maggie she’s evil. Maggie realizes everyone hates her and starts to back out the door, but then she yells Judy’s name and tells her she shouldn’t have done that. Sparks burst from her fingertips. All the animals go berserk! The animals all start to attack everyone.(and each other). When Maggie calls out Judy’s name, the animals turn their attention to Judy and surround her (moving in for the kill). So Maggie decides that maybe if she leaves the animals won’t attack. But when she leaves, she hears footsteps following her. It’s Glen.

He tells them it’s just him and her now. They deserved it because they’re phonies. He says they’ve always been jealous of her and were never her friends. He says she never should have trusted them. He says he bet Jackie hid her necklace in her drawer to make her look bad. She realizes Glen was always there when the bad things happen. Glen is the evil one. Glen says he shared some of his powers with her (the sparks shooting from her fingers). She thinks back to the carnival when Glen kissed her hand. What Mrs. Elizabeth felt was when she read her hand were the two times Glen’s hand made contact with hers. He said he had to pay them back. HE says if they blamed her, they wouldn’t suspect him. He then offers to share his powers with her, She tries to resist but she keeps saying it’s him and her. Glen tries to grab her hand, but she starts to run, but there’s a invisible wall that’s surrounding her. He tells her she can’t escape it. Leaves start to whirl around her. Then the triplets start to approach her. She’s trapped!

She then gives in and asks Glen for the power. He grabs her hand and squeezes it before the sisters reach her. Maggie then tells the sisters it was Glen the whole time. Maggie uses her powers to spin him faster and faster to send him flying above the trees. She sends him crashing to the ground and then she shrinks him into a chipmunk. Then he scampers into a pile of dead leaves.

My Thoughts
Another good book in the series! At first, I was wondering what was up with everyone calling Maggie evil. They said it WAY too much (even teasingly) for someone who DIDN’T DO ANYTHING EVIL AT FIRST! Which was weird. I even mentioned to my best friend and he said it’s not tt *she’s* evil. She’s possed by something that is. Which turned out to be try but the far more interesting story in this is how Glen got to be so evil and have powers. I mean shouldn’t at the end when he told Maggie yeah I did it. Shouldn’[t there have been some monologue about how he sold his soul in exchange for evil powers or something to that effect? I guess that’s just me. I always want background. It didn’t necessarily leave us hanging but you know how at the end it talked about palm reading and it usually gives us a little extra with this series, it could have had a Q and A for Glen. Just a thought.

Rating: 6

[devynreads · Rating 2 out of 5]

Much of what I have to say can probably be ignored since this is a middle-grade book meant for an audience far younger than me (I'm 24 and the age rage is like 8-12 for these books), but the overall Goodreads rating for this book is pretty terrible, so maybe some of my commentary is somewhat accurate. R. L. Stine wrote this, after all, so sue me for thinking some truly evil things were gonna go down in a book with "evil" in its title.

What I found unrealistic:

-The fact that Judy, Jilly, and Jackie all turned on Maggie, their supposed best friend, SO quickly. They'd been friends for years, and yet the second "weird" things start happening, they blame it on their one friend, despite seeing this friend's obvious confusion and upset, and scream that she's evil and horrible. Uh full offense but they did NOT seem like good people to keep around.

-Maggie's sudden and inexplicable SCREAMS and SHRILLNESS when called out by the sisters and other students for being evil. Like maybe if she just turned it down a notch or ten and didn't FREAK OUT every time someone called her evil, maybe then her denials would be taken more seriously.

What I didn't like:

-Clunky, repetitive dialogue. "Thanks for sharing, Glen! Thanks for sharing!"

-Jackie, Jedidiah, Jude, Jack-in-the-box, Jehovah....I don't even know. Why did so many of the main character names have to start with J? Yeah, they were triplets, but do you know how interchangeable this made them???

-MY BIGGEST COMPLAINT: I can't be the only one who thought this was going to be a toned-down version of Stephen King's "Carrie." With a title like "My Name is Evil," I don't think it's unreasonable to assume, "Oh, hey, this girl probably gets some weird powers or something, and, based on the cover art, it looks like she's enjoying it." I wanted Maggie to OWN those evil powers, even though she was confused by their existence and why she had them. But nope. Instead we get the typical, run-of-the-mill "wah I'm doing Bad Things and even though everyone's being abusive and insulting towards me I still wanna Be Good and Do Good Things" and so on. She should've just flicked her hands and Carrie'd them across the auditorium. At least then I wouldn't have wasted my time.

Of course, I have to admit that the reason I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 was because the idea itself was exciting - girl suddenly finds herself able to do really bad things for no discernible reason, no one believes her, and she then turns her evil powers on the unsuspecting masses [even if only for a moment]. And for most of the book Maggie's not sure if she even has evil powers, although bad things certainly seem to happen around her. That element of mystery, although small, was definitely there.

[rebekka · Rating 2 out of 5]

2 stars because I disliked the ending. It has a happy ending, technically, but I couldn't like it because it seemed artificial, like it was tried a bit too hard to save Maggie from this mess at the last minute. The story was good actually, you could sense evilness from it. Triplets were annoying to me, except Judy. Maggie's parents, well father is understandable but her mom was so absent. I know that she has shifts and works hard but I wanted her to have a bit more presence. By the way, it would be interesting if her dad's present would arrive and she would come across with some evilness.
I was surprised about Glen. He did good his job but didn't like his end. He vanished...Could be better.

[Sreypich Van · Rating 2 out of 5]

I hate to say this but it's the weakest of the series, in my opinion. I don't feel the genuity of their friendship at all, if anything it's kind of toxic. There were also so many red herrings to make you suspect Maggie's family line as having some sort of superpower. I guess it's convenient that way.
I wish Mr Stine had developed the relationship between Glen and Maggie more instead of repetitive unfortunate events happening to the triplets. It would have been better if she had been the one to figured out the origin of her power.

[Sandra Lopez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Maggie’s horror began with a fortune teller’s reading indicating that she will bring evil. What evil? Soon, bad things start to happen. A lot of freaky accidents happen. Was Maggie causing all this destruction? Did she have freaky powers? I’d be freaked out too if I were Maggie.
“Overnight, I’ve become an outcast. A freak.”
It was amazing how out of control it got in the lunchroom and the pet fair. What could Maggie do if she was evil? A good scary read!

[H.A. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Out of all of the Nightmare Room books, this is my favourite so far. It’s something rare — an R. L. Stine book without an entire cast of toxic friendships and sibling relationships. Maggie and the three sisters did have their falling out, but I think both sides were completely justified. And Jackie and Judy didn’t even turn on Maggie until they were sure that they were right.

[Jolean O'Connell · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a great mystery.

[Deli · Rating 5 out of 5]

It`s a grreat book

[Montserrat Esteban · Rating 1 out of 5]

Es un libro que no termina y al que le faltan páginas

[Valerie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I usually hate most books like this..But I loved the nightmare room series

[Lovro Herbai · Rating 2 out of 5]

Probably the goofiest and most unintentionally funny Stine book I've read. Ridiculous, but compelling.
2.2

[Matineh sanaeipour · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Seline Pine · Rating 3 out of 5]

I just don't really like Maggie at all.

[Reyhaneh Kamyab · Rating 3 out of 5]

زیاد جالب نبود.

[luanna · Rating 3 out of 5]

cumpre bem o papel de um entretenimento rápido.

confesso que não previ a reviravolta que revela a causa dos acontecimentos estranhos.

desfecho satisfatório, apesar de bem infantil.