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Five Nights at Freddy's #2
The Twisted Ones
It's been a year since the horrific events at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and Charlie is just trying to move on. Even with the excitement of a new school and a fresh start, she's still haunted by nightmares of a masked murderer and four gruesome animatronic puppets. Charlie thinks her ordeal is over, but when a series of bodies are discovered near her schoolbearing wounds that are disturbingly familiarshe finds herself drawn back into the world of her father's frightening creations. Something twisted is hunting Charlie, and this time if it finds her, it's not letting her go. - Five Nights At Freddy's #2: Twisted Ones By Scott Cawthon (Paperback)
304 pages, Paperback
First published June 27, 2017
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152 books2,326 followersScott Cawthon is an American independent video game developer, animator, and writer, best known for his creation of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.
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April 1, 2024
I love going through a new stack o’ books with Ms. L. I usually smile until my chubby cheeks ache and often, actually laugh out loud…which may be part of the reason we don’t meet in public anymore…but I digress.
When I picked up Five Nights At Freddy’s: The Twisted Ones by Scott Cawthon and Kira Breed-Wrisley, I was initially filled with excitement. I’d heard people talk about “Five Nights”. Kind of. I imagined something creepy and weird and angsty and thought it was probably another movie I had missed. Oh, and this is the sequel. I’m sure I’ll be just fine.
First, and undoubtedly you know this, it is a video-game, not a movie. To be clear, it is a “horror video game sensation”. Not the Atari Pac-Man that I adored. But I really dug the book.
There is a somewhat sinister satisfaction in watching good robotics go bad. Fiction, obviously, we know robots don’t “go bad”, they only have bad creators. Or, in this case, a maniacally evil creator. Folks, this is one angry dude…err…creature.
So, we have Charlie. She’s clearly been through a traumatic time. Her roommate, Jessica was also drawn into the drama, but it wasn’t her father at the center. Not unaffected, Jessica is certainly coping better than Charlie is. The worst part, Charlie feels like she’s way better than fine.
Jessica may need some back-up, so she is happy to hear that their friend John is coming back. Teenagers should worry about school and sports, not battle diabolically out-of-control animatronic puppets to save an entire town. But that does build a unique bond.
Before the trio could truly meld, it becomes apparent that their troubles are far from over. There is no way that the phony Freddy Fazbear could be back and Dave was only human, after all, so dead is just dead. Odds of Charlie’s father encountering someone even as remotely skilled and talented in his field made meeting Dave extraordinary. Statistics simply cannot allow for a third person to think in that way.
A repeat of last summer has to be impossible. But something sinister is certainly afoot. Sadly, there’s nobody better than Charlie, John and Jessica to solve this puzzle. And, hopefully, survive doing it.
This review was written by jv poore for Buried Under Books, with huge thanks for the Advance Review Copy to add to my favorite classroom library.
When I picked up Five Nights At Freddy’s: The Twisted Ones by Scott Cawthon and Kira Breed-Wrisley, I was initially filled with excitement. I’d heard people talk about “Five Nights”. Kind of. I imagined something creepy and weird and angsty and thought it was probably another movie I had missed. Oh, and this is the sequel. I’m sure I’ll be just fine.
First, and undoubtedly you know this, it is a video-game, not a movie. To be clear, it is a “horror video game sensation”. Not the Atari Pac-Man that I adored. But I really dug the book.
There is a somewhat sinister satisfaction in watching good robotics go bad. Fiction, obviously, we know robots don’t “go bad”, they only have bad creators. Or, in this case, a maniacally evil creator. Folks, this is one angry dude…err…creature.
So, we have Charlie. She’s clearly been through a traumatic time. Her roommate, Jessica was also drawn into the drama, but it wasn’t her father at the center. Not unaffected, Jessica is certainly coping better than Charlie is. The worst part, Charlie feels like she’s way better than fine.
Jessica may need some back-up, so she is happy to hear that their friend John is coming back. Teenagers should worry about school and sports, not battle diabolically out-of-control animatronic puppets to save an entire town. But that does build a unique bond.
Before the trio could truly meld, it becomes apparent that their troubles are far from over. There is no way that the phony Freddy Fazbear could be back and Dave was only human, after all, so dead is just dead. Odds of Charlie’s father encountering someone even as remotely skilled and talented in his field made meeting Dave extraordinary. Statistics simply cannot allow for a third person to think in that way.
A repeat of last summer has to be impossible. But something sinister is certainly afoot. Sadly, there’s nobody better than Charlie, John and Jessica to solve this puzzle. And, hopefully, survive doing it.
This review was written by jv poore for Buried Under Books, with huge thanks for the Advance Review Copy to add to my favorite classroom library.
February 20, 2018
Ah, another day of FNAF lore is another casual day for me. It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that I'd read this book (I'm overly obsessed with FNAF theories. Too obsessed...in all honesty). While it took me a while to get to it, the book was definitely worth the wait.
The Twisted Ones is the second book in the FNAF book series. The lore is different from the video games (same animatronics, different back story, but some similar names of characters...) but you could easily try to eave it into the video games if you tried (or if you trust Scott and his sneaky ways).
While this appears to be a YA novel, some of the gore is definitely closer to R rated. If you're a fan of FNAF, it probably wouldn't come as big of a surprise to know some of the gore is REALLY GORY, but keep that in mind if you choose to read it.
Plot wise, the story continued with a smooth transition. There is a time jump between the first and second book, but it worked in it's favour. Slowly plot details are revealed and old characters appear, and eventually Scott and Kira build and add to this spectacular take on the lore. I really did enjoy it - more animatronics, more craziness!
The book is relatively fast paced - I didn't get bored once. I really hope the next book is the last book in this series to finish it up. This book was the perfect sequel, so I'd like to see an explosive ending (by the way, MAJOR CLIFFHANGER ALERT).
Now, time for some lore discussion - this book will raise questions. Don't try to tie it to the book, and you'll be feeling mighty fine! If you start trying to make a wild, crazy theory you'll get fed up and quit. This book is supposed to be fun and increase circulation of this series (from my perspective) and it is increasing the fan base. Look at how many people are frustrated with the fact that this book doesn't fit in with the FNAF video games and are talking about it constantly... It's a lot of people. More conversations, more circulation, more participation, more people reading... It's marketing genius. Is this book kinda silly? Yes. Were half of my questions answered in regard to lore for this book series? No. But it's fun! I think this is a fun read that didn't require my brain to explode to understand it.
Side note: Can we get a FNAF graphic novel or something? This book would be EPIC in picture form...just saying.
Four out of five stars.
The Twisted Ones is the second book in the FNAF book series. The lore is different from the video games (same animatronics, different back story, but some similar names of characters...) but you could easily try to eave it into the video games if you tried (or if you trust Scott and his sneaky ways).
While this appears to be a YA novel, some of the gore is definitely closer to R rated. If you're a fan of FNAF, it probably wouldn't come as big of a surprise to know some of the gore is REALLY GORY, but keep that in mind if you choose to read it.
Plot wise, the story continued with a smooth transition. There is a time jump between the first and second book, but it worked in it's favour. Slowly plot details are revealed and old characters appear, and eventually Scott and Kira build and add to this spectacular take on the lore. I really did enjoy it - more animatronics, more craziness!
The book is relatively fast paced - I didn't get bored once. I really hope the next book is the last book in this series to finish it up. This book was the perfect sequel, so I'd like to see an explosive ending (by the way, MAJOR CLIFFHANGER ALERT).
Now, time for some lore discussion - this book will raise questions. Don't try to tie it to the book, and you'll be feeling mighty fine! If you start trying to make a wild, crazy theory you'll get fed up and quit. This book is supposed to be fun and increase circulation of this series (from my perspective) and it is increasing the fan base. Look at how many people are frustrated with the fact that this book doesn't fit in with the FNAF video games and are talking about it constantly... It's a lot of people. More conversations, more circulation, more participation, more people reading... It's marketing genius. Is this book kinda silly? Yes. Were half of my questions answered in regard to lore for this book series? No. But it's fun! I think this is a fun read that didn't require my brain to explode to understand it.
Side note: Can we get a FNAF graphic novel or something? This book would be EPIC in picture form...just saying.
Four out of five stars.
June 27, 2017
There better be another book Scott Cawthon....
I have nothing to say except that if a Scott doesn't write another book after that Cliffhanger I'm gonna be beyond pissed off. 😡😡😡 Otherwise it was amazing lol.
I have nothing to say except that if a Scott doesn't write another book after that Cliffhanger I'm gonna be beyond pissed off. 😡😡😡 Otherwise it was amazing lol.
August 31, 2018
This series is pretty garbage but I'm trash for FNAF lore and theories so it works out. Naturally this book created more questions and didn't really answer any that I was left with from the first (what little I remembered anyway). It's utterly ridiculous and I'll read the next when it comes out. I don't even know if Cawthon counts these as official lore - I can't keep anything we've learned about the games straight anyway. I wouldn't recommend this unless you're really eager for more FNAF material lol. Also Charlie is the most ridiculous character ever.
March 18, 2020
Don’t know why i do this to myself. Main character is so terrible. The ending areas of course are just these weird areas that don’t really make any sense. The book’s last act is just a garbled mess of confusing twists that are just nuts for the sake of being nuts. I look forward to the third book.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 12, 2018
So.. there is no third book I take it? Sigh. Way to go leaving me hanging on the tip of a cliff like this.
I’m not sure why this took me so long to finish, Imean the text is pretty big. Not sure if its targeted for YA but its pretty gruesome at that.
Nice book, Haven’t read the first one whops , But thats ok it still worked either way.
I’m not sure why this took me so long to finish, Imean the text is pretty big. Not sure if its targeted for YA but its pretty gruesome at that.
Nice book, Haven’t read the first one whops , But thats ok it still worked either way.
February 8, 2018
The main character, Charlie, is a pain in the ass, but the books are very entertaining.
November 20, 2019
The first Five Nights at Freddy's book was a feast of scares inside a dark, dank, and claustrophobic pizzeria inhabited by murderous animatronics in the form of teddy bears and other 'lovable' stuffed creatures. The shock value was high, the nightmarish suspense real.
The Twisted Ones, however, tones down the horror element a notch or two. It's basically a goosebumps books (not a negative criticism, I'll always have fond memories of my feverish spells spent inside the pages of those childhood horror stories) with a shade of 80's horror and some crime fiction elements thrown in for good measure. Whilst enjoyable, I found it didn't pack the same punch as the first Five Nights at Freddy's book.
Suzanne Elise Freeman narrated the audio-book and did a fantastic job at hyping the suspense and bringing the characters to life.
Overall, The Twisted Ones is a solid 3/5 stars.
The Twisted Ones, however, tones down the horror element a notch or two. It's basically a goosebumps books (not a negative criticism, I'll always have fond memories of my feverish spells spent inside the pages of those childhood horror stories) with a shade of 80's horror and some crime fiction elements thrown in for good measure. Whilst enjoyable, I found it didn't pack the same punch as the first Five Nights at Freddy's book.
Suzanne Elise Freeman narrated the audio-book and did a fantastic job at hyping the suspense and bringing the characters to life.
Overall, The Twisted Ones is a solid 3/5 stars.
November 27, 2023
convoluted and tough to get through
deep dive video: https://youtu.be/JWUF_wzB_uw
deep dive video: https://youtu.be/JWUF_wzB_uw
July 15, 2025
4.5 ⭐️
way better than the first book this was SO GOOD!!!
way better than the first book this was SO GOOD!!!
September 20, 2017
NOOO! Why did you make Charlie die? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! She had so much life left!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 12, 2018
I hated this book. The first book at least had a couple interesting characters and I was entertained while they were trapped inside the pizzeria. I regretted buying the book in the first few pages. This is more of a romance book when that should not even be an element in the novel.
Charlie is one of the flattest characters I've ever seen. The personality she does have annoys me. I'd even go as far as saying she's a borderline Mary-Sue. She gets away with things without consequence and has two boys falling head over heels in love with her for her for no reason. Her friends go along with anything she says even if it makes no sense. They barely question anything and if they do it doesn't change a thing. Charlie always gets her way.
A dead body left in the field to rot? Where were the medical examiners? Why was there no autopsy? Why the was Clay the only cop investigating? Three people were murdered and people were in danger. Cops go check out one of the victim's houses but aren't heard of again until the end of the book. AND WHY WAS CHARLIE ALLOWED TO TOUCH THE DEAD BODIES? SHE EVEN TAKES ONE OF THE VICTIMS IDS AND GOES TO HER HOUSE WITHOUT ANY CONSEQUENCES. No real police officer would do such a thing.
I also hated the writing. Sometimes paragraphs would randomly end and the next would make no sense. I struggled with understanding what was happening most of the time. The dialogue was choppy and it was often hard to tell who was talking due to the punctuation.
Don't even get me started on Springtrap. How on earth was Charlie remotely strong enough to fight him? He should have the same strength as an animatronic whom can easily toss a full grown man across the room.
One last thing. Where did Clay get the match? Did he just randomly have one in his pocket?
Charlie is one of the flattest characters I've ever seen. The personality she does have annoys me. I'd even go as far as saying she's a borderline Mary-Sue. She gets away with things without consequence and has two boys falling head over heels in love with her for her for no reason. Her friends go along with anything she says even if it makes no sense. They barely question anything and if they do it doesn't change a thing. Charlie always gets her way.
A dead body left in the field to rot? Where were the medical examiners? Why was there no autopsy? Why the was Clay the only cop investigating? Three people were murdered and people were in danger. Cops go check out one of the victim's houses but aren't heard of again until the end of the book. AND WHY WAS CHARLIE ALLOWED TO TOUCH THE DEAD BODIES? SHE EVEN TAKES ONE OF THE VICTIMS IDS AND GOES TO HER HOUSE WITHOUT ANY CONSEQUENCES. No real police officer would do such a thing.
I also hated the writing. Sometimes paragraphs would randomly end and the next would make no sense. I struggled with understanding what was happening most of the time. The dialogue was choppy and it was often hard to tell who was talking due to the punctuation.
Don't even get me started on Springtrap. How on earth was Charlie remotely strong enough to fight him? He should have the same strength as an animatronic whom can easily toss a full grown man across the room.
One last thing. Where did Clay get the match? Did he just randomly have one in his pocket?
April 19, 2018
Two stars for book lore that we get for the FNAF book-verse, but other than that, plot was all over the place and the writing was a bit hard to follow. Again, I thought Charlie was a bit Mary-Sue. Honestly, I feel like this would work better as a B-list anime, because that was the vibe I got the entire time reading.
May 14, 2023
This is the Shrek 3 of the Five Nights at Freddy’s universe. I will not elaborate.
September 26, 2025
#️⃣4️⃣9️⃣3️⃣ Read & Reviewed in 2025 💔🩸
Date : 🚀 Sunday, September 21, 2025 🚫🔻❌
Word Count📃: 69k Words 🧨🔪🎈
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( ˶°ㅁ°) !! My 67th read in "READING AS MANY BOOKS AS I CANNN 😢 cuz smth....happened.....irl.........😥" September ⚡
4️⃣🌟, certainly better than the first one
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This story is now like SEVERELY differing from the original series and most definitely different from the original games because it now just focuses on Charlie's friend group. More specifically charlie, John & Jessica, yep the three of them. It is now just focusing on them trying to solve the lore and just generally trying to figure out what is actually happening in here (whilst also trying to survive because yes they're still subjected to dying in here), but this time there is a little bit more gorey atmosphere and this supposed YA contains some pretty disturbing themes but it's almost like almost crossing a line just almost, i would actually consider this book series to be more of children's literature rather than young adult (YA) because of the way it's written and through that standard..ye this is a bit too gory for children. This is just a light, fun read with horror elements but i would just say that the ending is...A MASSSSSSSSIVE cliffhanger but considering that i think this book is leading up to the third, the ending definitely sets up a great start for the third book in exchange for this book not having the same quality as for what's to come. This second book is better than the first one but i think that the third would be even better and even more improved than this.
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Word Count📃: 69k Words 🧨🔪🎈
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4️⃣🌟, certainly better than the first one
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This story is now like SEVERELY differing from the original series and most definitely different from the original games because it now just focuses on Charlie's friend group. More specifically charlie, John & Jessica, yep the three of them. It is now just focusing on them trying to solve the lore and just generally trying to figure out what is actually happening in here (whilst also trying to survive because yes they're still subjected to dying in here), but this time there is a little bit more gorey atmosphere and this supposed YA contains some pretty disturbing themes but it's almost like almost crossing a line just almost, i would actually consider this book series to be more of children's literature rather than young adult (YA) because of the way it's written and through that standard..ye this is a bit too gory for children. This is just a light, fun read with horror elements but i would just say that the ending is...A MASSSSSSSSIVE cliffhanger but considering that i think this book is leading up to the third, the ending definitely sets up a great start for the third book in exchange for this book not having the same quality as for what's to come. This second book is better than the first one but i think that the third would be even better and even more improved than this.
February 25, 2025
Хм... за съжаление не успях да се спогодя с това книжле. Видя ми се значително по-слабо от Сребърните очи, действията на героите почти през цялото време ми се струваха лишени от логика, хорър постановката яко издишаше, а за капак - финалът отвори още въпроси, без да даде отговори. И макар последното да е характерно за вторите части от книжните серии, горещо се надявам Четвъртият гардероб да е мааалко по-добре структуриран роман.
July 28, 2018
I didn't enjoy it as much as the first one. This one was a bit more cheesy, but I'm probably going to continue with the series.
March 7, 2019
i thought that it was good except for the part when the main character gets stuffed into a circus baby suit.
January 8, 2020
Got me attached and keep up the good work Kira breed wrisley and scott cawthon
April 16, 2023
Eh. Not that great. Dialogue is downright cringe at times. Rare time when the middle of the trilogy is the worst
July 22, 2017
FNaF franchise took off unexpectedly nearly three years ago now and community has been focusing on the backstory so much that its creator Scott Cawthon started writing some books about it. First one, "The Silver Eyes," was an average book overall, there were several discrepancies between the game lore and it had suffered from moderately unskillful writing and too many and useless characters.
Enter now, "The Twisted Ones", the second addition to novel universe of FNaF. Taking off where book one left, this book revolves around one year after the events occurred in first novel. Several murders started to occur and evidence points to new animatronic killers.
First book's annoying protagonist Charlie is the star again here, being the daughter of the man who created the animatronics. Most of the useless side characters are absent in this book, only John and Jessica remain as Charlie's friends. This is a positive improvement since too many characters without any notable features made it harder to remember which was which in the first book.
The book suffers from the poor storytelling that plagued its predecessor. I had hoped that Cawthon had improved his writing between these two books but I encountered the similar amateur typos, too many repetitive words in a brief amount time and pointless descriptions of the environments and dialogue between the characters still lurking around every page turn.
Story is somehow interesting at first but as someone who is in their just 30s, I am genuinely astounded by the stupidity and recklessness of the main protagonist of the series. Charlie is 19 years old in this book yet she acts like an 11 year old most of the time. You can generally see her coming into rash conclusions, doing things out of spite and "ignoring" his star-crossed lover John all the time. Yes, I saw that "ignore" verb so many times in the book that if I had a penny every time Charlie ignored something John said, asked or done, I would have had an overflowing Swiss bank account. Charlie was a pain in the ass in the first book and she continues to be so in the second. And she added stupidity to her other negative feats in this book as a bonus.
New hostile animatronics are a bit vague in description. They are non-existent in any of the games as far as I know, since they can devour someone through a gaping maw in their torso, as well as creating illusions to make themselves appear as friendly robots rather than hideous electronic creatures they are. I can't make any positive or negative comments on them, it's Scott's universe and he's free to add whatever he wishes. But the fact that the gap between the games and the novels is getting wider is impossible to ignore.
There is no sense in some of the parts of the book, like two teenagers going to the old pizzeria to find Springtrap's body hidden somewhere, but they never bother to tell it to anyone, despite the fact that they know a police officer very well and he knows what happened in there. Hell, they even tell that to their friend John after some time. Can you imagine holding back something like that from a friend who has endeavored everything happened in that pizzeria a year ago? This is again an example of how insufferable and incomprehensible our main protagonist Charlie is. Everybody has to put up with her shit throughout the entire book, like they were doing it before.
Relationship between John and Charlie is so crude and out of place that it makes you cringe in your seat while you read. Charlie is an ice queen haunted by her past to the extent that becomes wearisome to the reader and you want to get in the book and shout "get the hell over it" to her face. John has a crush on her for some unknown reason dating back to first book, but he gets nothing back for a good 150 pages of this book, as well as the 300 pages of the first one. Charlie clearly has PTSD which requires some serious medical help as far as I perceived from the book as someone who is in medicine field, yet no one ever implies that she needs treatment. In a realistic approach in human psychiatric disorders, at least her friends should have talked to each other about her rapidly deteriorating mental condition. Her suicide mission was pretty much pointless, her obsession over her late brother whom she has barely known is outright schizophrenic and her last attempt of forced romance with John moments before she was killed by the spring locks is laughable at best.
Original animatronics reappear towards the end and they are friendly to the humans, this is understandable if we consider the fact they are possessed by the spirits of the children slain by Springtrap and they rise to combat his creations. But the absence of Yellow Freddy, who is occupied by their best friend Michael's spirit who saved them from their latest encounter with animatronics, is discernable in the final battle. Original animatronics nearly killed all of them in the first book, until Yellow Freddy appeared and somehow persuaded them they are not the enemy and yet they help the teenagers here on their own accord without the guidance of him.
And about the ending, it was a really forced cliffhanger. Cliffhangers mean something when they are tied up to a point or expectation. John looking at a glance to the newcomer and gravely stating "that is not Charlie" is added to create some sort of paranormality to the scene but since Springtrap had cheated death twice from the spring locks before their very eyes, I don't understand why John dismissed the chance of that woman being Charlie so easily. Is it because "he loved her so much" that he can immediately understand that newcomer is not Charlie but a twisted version of herself? And also, what was her aunt doing at the end of the book, next to her crushed body in the mascot? Is that family completely paranormal, from father to aunt and daughter? I mean, I like cliffhangers but they have to make some sense. Animatronics haunted by children's spirits is a paranormal event meanwhile creating illusions by tampering with brain's sensory network is somehow possible but most if it is pseudoscience as described in the book. This book struggles to choose between paranormal and pseudoscience all the time and it still had not made its final decision even at the last pages.
Overall, this is another addition to ever-growing FNaF lore, if you are interested like me, then you will read this until the end despite the negative aspects I have described above and many more I have forgotten right now. But for someone who does not have a clue what FNaF is, it is just a poorly narrated book which promises nothing but frustration and waste of time.
Three stars because I like the lore but if a third one comes and shows no improvement, I will stop being so generous about these reviews.
Enter now, "The Twisted Ones", the second addition to novel universe of FNaF. Taking off where book one left, this book revolves around one year after the events occurred in first novel. Several murders started to occur and evidence points to new animatronic killers.
First book's annoying protagonist Charlie is the star again here, being the daughter of the man who created the animatronics. Most of the useless side characters are absent in this book, only John and Jessica remain as Charlie's friends. This is a positive improvement since too many characters without any notable features made it harder to remember which was which in the first book.
The book suffers from the poor storytelling that plagued its predecessor. I had hoped that Cawthon had improved his writing between these two books but I encountered the similar amateur typos, too many repetitive words in a brief amount time and pointless descriptions of the environments and dialogue between the characters still lurking around every page turn.
Story is somehow interesting at first but as someone who is in their just 30s, I am genuinely astounded by the stupidity and recklessness of the main protagonist of the series. Charlie is 19 years old in this book yet she acts like an 11 year old most of the time. You can generally see her coming into rash conclusions, doing things out of spite and "ignoring" his star-crossed lover John all the time. Yes, I saw that "ignore" verb so many times in the book that if I had a penny every time Charlie ignored something John said, asked or done, I would have had an overflowing Swiss bank account. Charlie was a pain in the ass in the first book and she continues to be so in the second. And she added stupidity to her other negative feats in this book as a bonus.
New hostile animatronics are a bit vague in description. They are non-existent in any of the games as far as I know, since they can devour someone through a gaping maw in their torso, as well as creating illusions to make themselves appear as friendly robots rather than hideous electronic creatures they are. I can't make any positive or negative comments on them, it's Scott's universe and he's free to add whatever he wishes. But the fact that the gap between the games and the novels is getting wider is impossible to ignore.
There is no sense in some of the parts of the book, like two teenagers going to the old pizzeria to find Springtrap's body hidden somewhere, but they never bother to tell it to anyone, despite the fact that they know a police officer very well and he knows what happened in there. Hell, they even tell that to their friend John after some time. Can you imagine holding back something like that from a friend who has endeavored everything happened in that pizzeria a year ago? This is again an example of how insufferable and incomprehensible our main protagonist Charlie is. Everybody has to put up with her shit throughout the entire book, like they were doing it before.
Relationship between John and Charlie is so crude and out of place that it makes you cringe in your seat while you read. Charlie is an ice queen haunted by her past to the extent that becomes wearisome to the reader and you want to get in the book and shout "get the hell over it" to her face. John has a crush on her for some unknown reason dating back to first book, but he gets nothing back for a good 150 pages of this book, as well as the 300 pages of the first one. Charlie clearly has PTSD which requires some serious medical help as far as I perceived from the book as someone who is in medicine field, yet no one ever implies that she needs treatment. In a realistic approach in human psychiatric disorders, at least her friends should have talked to each other about her rapidly deteriorating mental condition. Her suicide mission was pretty much pointless, her obsession over her late brother whom she has barely known is outright schizophrenic and her last attempt of forced romance with John moments before she was killed by the spring locks is laughable at best.
Original animatronics reappear towards the end and they are friendly to the humans, this is understandable if we consider the fact they are possessed by the spirits of the children slain by Springtrap and they rise to combat his creations. But the absence of Yellow Freddy, who is occupied by their best friend Michael's spirit who saved them from their latest encounter with animatronics, is discernable in the final battle. Original animatronics nearly killed all of them in the first book, until Yellow Freddy appeared and somehow persuaded them they are not the enemy and yet they help the teenagers here on their own accord without the guidance of him.
And about the ending, it was a really forced cliffhanger. Cliffhangers mean something when they are tied up to a point or expectation. John looking at a glance to the newcomer and gravely stating "that is not Charlie" is added to create some sort of paranormality to the scene but since Springtrap had cheated death twice from the spring locks before their very eyes, I don't understand why John dismissed the chance of that woman being Charlie so easily. Is it because "he loved her so much" that he can immediately understand that newcomer is not Charlie but a twisted version of herself? And also, what was her aunt doing at the end of the book, next to her crushed body in the mascot? Is that family completely paranormal, from father to aunt and daughter? I mean, I like cliffhangers but they have to make some sense. Animatronics haunted by children's spirits is a paranormal event meanwhile creating illusions by tampering with brain's sensory network is somehow possible but most if it is pseudoscience as described in the book. This book struggles to choose between paranormal and pseudoscience all the time and it still had not made its final decision even at the last pages.
Overall, this is another addition to ever-growing FNaF lore, if you are interested like me, then you will read this until the end despite the negative aspects I have described above and many more I have forgotten right now. But for someone who does not have a clue what FNaF is, it is just a poorly narrated book which promises nothing but frustration and waste of time.
Three stars because I like the lore but if a third one comes and shows no improvement, I will stop being so generous about these reviews.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 23, 2022
Edit 2: Jessica dalej mnie irytuje.
Edit: Podczas czytania drugi raz doszłam do wniosku, że naprawdę nie potrafię tego czytać nie myśląc o wydarzeniach z 3 części.
Rok po wydarzeniach z pierwszej części wracamy do Charlie, która zdecydowała się pójść w ślady ojca i studiować robotykę. Teoretycznie radzi sobie bardzo dobrze, ale wspomnienia dotyczące Sammy’ego są silniejsze niż kiedykolwiek. Część jej rodzinnego domu ulega uszkodzeniu na skutek tornada, odsłaniając tajemnicze pomieszczenie. Dodatkowo zaczynają ginąć ludzie, zaatakowani przez animatroniki, które, chociaż wydawały się pracą Henry’ego, to jednak coś było z nimi nie tak. Mamy też uszczuploną ilość bohaterów pierwszoplanowych, a dokładnie ograniczonych do Charlie, Johna, Jessiki i Clay’a, co wyszło historii jak najbardziej na plus.
Oczywiście wątek miłosny kwitnie, a raczej próbuje kwitnąć, bo biorąc pod uwagę okoliczności w jakich znaleźli się bohaterowie, to nie jest to proste. Bardzo dobrze by się rozwinął sam w ciągu tych wszystkich wydarzeń i narzucanie rozmowy na ten temat przez Jessicę było absolutnie zbędne. Generalnie postać Jessici irytowała tu strasznie i była elementem, jak dla mnie, kompletnie niepotrzebnym. Trio Charlie, John, Clay to była bardzo dobra drużyna i dla mnie nawet cała trylogia mogłaby się skupić głównie na nich.
Ale skoro przechodzimy do irytujących bohaterów, to Jess przebił tylko Arty. Kolega Charlie z uczelni, który ewidentnie ją podrywa, a przyczepia się jak rzep do psiego ogona. Na szczęście nie ma go dużo, ale jednak wystarczająco, żeby czytelnika zdenerwował. Mam nadzieję, że ta postać ma jakieś głębsze zastosowanie, szczególnie, że dziwnym zbiegiem okoliczności w ostatniej scenie doskonale wiedział, gdzie ma szukać głównych bohaterów, chociaż nikt go o tym nie informował. Ale jego zachowanie w tamtej chwili, biorąc pod uwagę tragedię jaka spotkała resztę, było absurdalne.
Bardzo podobał mi się motyw z transmiterem dźwięku, który powodował wymioty. A jeśli ktoś się orientuje w temacie i wie, czym jest dla graczy BB, to jedna scena na pewno bardzo mu się spodoba, szczególnie, że na pewno wielokrotnie chciał zrobić dokładnie to samo.
Książka jednak nie jest bez wad. Czyta się ją tak samo szybko, jak pierwszą część. Ma prosty, lekki język, ale zdarzają się powtórzenia i od pewnego momentu dość częste. Jest też mała niespójność, bo Charlie twierdzi, że Dave prezentował jej swoje blizny, co nie było prawdą, chyba że dzieli swój umysł z Carltonem. Historia jest też, w porównaniu z poprzedniczką, dużo brutalniejsza i całe szczęście. Klimat z horroru jest tu zdecydowanie bardziej wyczuwalny. Jeśli jednak ktoś chciałby się dowiedzieć czegoś o robotyce, patrząc, że Charlie chodzi na wykłady i czytamy, co mówi prowadząca, to nie dowie się jakichś bardzo istotnych szczegółów, a szkoda, bo to, co zostało przedstawione i dotyczy funkcjonowania robotów bardzo dobrze się czyta.
Podsumowując, jeśli ktoś był trochę zawiedziony pierwszą częścią, to druga powinna mu się bardziej spodobać. Mamy też w ostatnich scenach dość zaskakujący bieg wydarzeń, szczególnie gdy pada jedno, wręcz przełomowe zdanie, co tylko podsyca ciekawość czytelnika.
Edit: Podczas czytania drugi raz doszłam do wniosku, że naprawdę nie potrafię tego czytać nie myśląc o wydarzeniach z 3 części.
Rok po wydarzeniach z pierwszej części wracamy do Charlie, która zdecydowała się pójść w ślady ojca i studiować robotykę. Teoretycznie radzi sobie bardzo dobrze, ale wspomnienia dotyczące Sammy’ego są silniejsze niż kiedykolwiek. Część jej rodzinnego domu ulega uszkodzeniu na skutek tornada, odsłaniając tajemnicze pomieszczenie. Dodatkowo zaczynają ginąć ludzie, zaatakowani przez animatroniki, które, chociaż wydawały się pracą Henry’ego, to jednak coś było z nimi nie tak. Mamy też uszczuploną ilość bohaterów pierwszoplanowych, a dokładnie ograniczonych do Charlie, Johna, Jessiki i Clay’a, co wyszło historii jak najbardziej na plus.
Oczywiście wątek miłosny kwitnie, a raczej próbuje kwitnąć, bo biorąc pod uwagę okoliczności w jakich znaleźli się bohaterowie, to nie jest to proste. Bardzo dobrze by się rozwinął sam w ciągu tych wszystkich wydarzeń i narzucanie rozmowy na ten temat przez Jessicę było absolutnie zbędne. Generalnie postać Jessici irytowała tu strasznie i była elementem, jak dla mnie, kompletnie niepotrzebnym. Trio Charlie, John, Clay to była bardzo dobra drużyna i dla mnie nawet cała trylogia mogłaby się skupić głównie na nich.
Ale skoro przechodzimy do irytujących bohaterów, to Jess przebił tylko Arty. Kolega Charlie z uczelni, który ewidentnie ją podrywa, a przyczepia się jak rzep do psiego ogona. Na szczęście nie ma go dużo, ale jednak wystarczająco, żeby czytelnika zdenerwował. Mam nadzieję, że ta postać ma jakieś głębsze zastosowanie, szczególnie, że dziwnym zbiegiem okoliczności w ostatniej scenie doskonale wiedział, gdzie ma szukać głównych bohaterów, chociaż nikt go o tym nie informował. Ale jego zachowanie w tamtej chwili, biorąc pod uwagę tragedię jaka spotkała resztę, było absurdalne.
Bardzo podobał mi się motyw z transmiterem dźwięku, który powodował wymioty. A jeśli ktoś się orientuje w temacie i wie, czym jest dla graczy BB, to jedna scena na pewno bardzo mu się spodoba, szczególnie, że na pewno wielokrotnie chciał zrobić dokładnie to samo.
Książka jednak nie jest bez wad. Czyta się ją tak samo szybko, jak pierwszą część. Ma prosty, lekki język, ale zdarzają się powtórzenia i od pewnego momentu dość częste. Jest też mała niespójność, bo Charlie twierdzi, że Dave prezentował jej swoje blizny, co nie było prawdą, chyba że dzieli swój umysł z Carltonem. Historia jest też, w porównaniu z poprzedniczką, dużo brutalniejsza i całe szczęście. Klimat z horroru jest tu zdecydowanie bardziej wyczuwalny. Jeśli jednak ktoś chciałby się dowiedzieć czegoś o robotyce, patrząc, że Charlie chodzi na wykłady i czytamy, co mówi prowadząca, to nie dowie się jakichś bardzo istotnych szczegółów, a szkoda, bo to, co zostało przedstawione i dotyczy funkcjonowania robotów bardzo dobrze się czyta.
Podsumowując, jeśli ktoś był trochę zawiedziony pierwszą częścią, to druga powinna mu się bardziej spodobać. Mamy też w ostatnich scenach dość zaskakujący bieg wydarzeń, szczególnie gdy pada jedno, wręcz przełomowe zdanie, co tylko podsyca ciekawość czytelnika.
August 21, 2018
Okay, that ending was SO good!
Admittedly, this book was a guinea pig in my “getting out of a reading slump” experiment. There were times that I found myself skimming towards the end. I don’t know if it was because I didn’t really care for the balloon boys or if it was because the last few chapters in books are always brutal to get through.
With that all being said, I am looking forward to reading The Fourth Closet sometime in the near future.
Admittedly, this book was a guinea pig in my “getting out of a reading slump” experiment. There were times that I found myself skimming towards the end. I don’t know if it was because I didn’t really care for the balloon boys or if it was because the last few chapters in books are always brutal to get through.
With that all being said, I am looking forward to reading The Fourth Closet sometime in the near future.
December 17, 2019
Pretty gruesome but enjoyable book! It was a little slower for the action to start, but it's written well enough that you just keep going. I liked that some time had passed since the first novel and that we find out some stuff that happened in between. With the way this one ended, I'm glad the third book is already out and I don't have to wait to find out what happens to Charlie! Overall, this was a good book but I'm not sure the younger teens should read it.
October 16, 2018
you know how when you hear a song, and you like the verse and you like the chorus but the bridge just seems to be there because it is required by songs construction?
I found this book to be a bit like that.
I was turning pages, but mostly to try to get to the point and then just to get it over with.
I found this book to be a bit like that.
I was turning pages, but mostly to try to get to the point and then just to get it over with.
October 25, 2020
still not sold on the whole soul thing.. but whatever
still a better story than i thought it was going to be
and the ending has me intrigued for the next book
still a better story than i thought it was going to be
and the ending has me intrigued for the next book
December 4, 2023
Końcówka książki taka strasznie chaotyczna
May 7, 2018
Personal Response: I thought this book was pretty good because it kept me interested the whole time I was reading it. I would even say it was better than the first book because there were no low points during this book.
Plot: Five Nights at Freddy’s: The Twisted Ones by Scott Cawthon is the sequel to Five Night at Freddy’s: The Silver Eyes. The book starts with Charlie sitting class listening to a lecture. She starts to daydream about the attack in the pizzeria. Her friend, Arty, wakes her from her daydream. Charlie leaves from her class to get ready for a date with John, but Clay, the police officer from the first book, calls her to come check out a dead body the police found. Clay picks up Charlie and they go look at the body. Charlie notices that the person must have died from an animatronic from the puncture wounds. Clay brings her bad and Charlie goes on her date. She is late and covered in dirt. After the date, Charlie goes back to her dorm. The next day, Charlie works on her project for programming when she gets interrupted by Jessica. The two talk for awhile and Charlie heads to class. In class, Charlie starts daydreaming about the dead body. After class, John asks Charlie on another date. It is scheduled for tomorrow at around noon. Charlie really wants to look at Freddy’s Pizzeria again, so she convinces Jessica that they are going shopping for date clothes tomorrow morning. The next morning, Charlie brings Jessica to the pizzeria. Half of the pizzeria has been destroyed and emptied while the other half has not been touched. The two explore the remaining part of the pizzeria and find Dave’s dead body in the gold bunny suit. They leave and Charlie goes on her date. Charlie tells John about what she saw and John tells her about what happened after the events of the first book. Their date ends and Charlie goes back to her room. She has a dream about her brother being taken. The next day, Clay calls to tell Charlie some more bodies have been found and they all have the same marks as the first dead body. Charlie gets John to come with her to her old house. They look around and find a secret little room underneath the garage. This room is part of a business called Afton Robotics Inc. This business belongs to William Afton, who is also Dave. On the ground are three piles of dirt. Underneath these piles are three animatronics that really messed up. Charlie and John lift one up and examine it. The messed up Freddy gives off a hum that makes John feel queasy. Charlie reaches into it to get the device making the noise, but her arm gets stuck. John gets her arm out and they destroy the device. The next day, Charlie is driving and sees a bunch of vultures circling around in a field. Charlie looks and finds a body. Charlie calls Clay and the police pick up the body. Clay brings Charlie, Jessica, and John along to look for more bodies. At night, they find a dirt patch. They dig it up to find an animatronic. A lady is in the animatronic and she is barely alive. They get her out and bring her to the hospital. Charlie realizes that the animatronics want her. She goes to the lady’s house and lets one of the animatronics take her. Clay, Jessica, and John realize that Charlie is missing. Clay tells the two that he has the animatronics from the pizzeria. Clay brings the two to his house and brings them to the animatronics. Jessica and John tell the animatronics that Charlie is missing. The animatronics get out of Clay’s house and start the search. The book gets back to Charlie, where she wakes up in some new pizzeria. She tries to escapes, but she sees the ghosts of the children. Charlie is forced back into a suit by an animatronic is knocked out in the process. The book jumps back to the group which is slowly finding where Charlie is. The book jumps back to Charlie, who has woken up and is about to escape. Charlie hears John, who has broken down a wall to get into the pizzeria. The animatronics try to attack the group, but the good animatronics attack them. Clay shoots some of the messed up animatronics and it turns out they were just illusions. Dave comes back to try and kill Charlie, but John knocks him out. Dave wakes back up and tells Charlie that he actually took Charlie and not her brother. John tells Charlie that it is time to leave, but Charlie refuses to leave because she thinks that her brother is still in the springtrap suit. The pizzeria collapse and both Charlie and Dave die. The book ends with John and Jessica talking to Arty and Marla.
Characterization: Charlie changes from being a detective trying to figure out who killed the four people to being dead. Dave changed from being dead to becoming “Springtrap” to being dead for good.
Setting: This book takes place in the little town of Hurricane. This is where several people are found dead with marks from the animatronics. This book also takes place in a different Freddy’s Pizzeria than the other book. This is where Charlie is taken when she gets herself kidnapped and where she and Dave finally die. This book also takes place a year after the events of the first book. The characters are getting over the events of what happened in the pizzeria.
Recommendation: I recommend this book to boys and girls at the age level of 13 and up. The reason for that age group would be that there is some gore in the book. I would not want some kids reading about the gore, even though the gore is not as bad as the first book. I also recommend this book for any Five Nights at Freddy’s fan because it keeps adding to the lore of the series.
Plot: Five Nights at Freddy’s: The Twisted Ones by Scott Cawthon is the sequel to Five Night at Freddy’s: The Silver Eyes. The book starts with Charlie sitting class listening to a lecture. She starts to daydream about the attack in the pizzeria. Her friend, Arty, wakes her from her daydream. Charlie leaves from her class to get ready for a date with John, but Clay, the police officer from the first book, calls her to come check out a dead body the police found. Clay picks up Charlie and they go look at the body. Charlie notices that the person must have died from an animatronic from the puncture wounds. Clay brings her bad and Charlie goes on her date. She is late and covered in dirt. After the date, Charlie goes back to her dorm. The next day, Charlie works on her project for programming when she gets interrupted by Jessica. The two talk for awhile and Charlie heads to class. In class, Charlie starts daydreaming about the dead body. After class, John asks Charlie on another date. It is scheduled for tomorrow at around noon. Charlie really wants to look at Freddy’s Pizzeria again, so she convinces Jessica that they are going shopping for date clothes tomorrow morning. The next morning, Charlie brings Jessica to the pizzeria. Half of the pizzeria has been destroyed and emptied while the other half has not been touched. The two explore the remaining part of the pizzeria and find Dave’s dead body in the gold bunny suit. They leave and Charlie goes on her date. Charlie tells John about what she saw and John tells her about what happened after the events of the first book. Their date ends and Charlie goes back to her room. She has a dream about her brother being taken. The next day, Clay calls to tell Charlie some more bodies have been found and they all have the same marks as the first dead body. Charlie gets John to come with her to her old house. They look around and find a secret little room underneath the garage. This room is part of a business called Afton Robotics Inc. This business belongs to William Afton, who is also Dave. On the ground are three piles of dirt. Underneath these piles are three animatronics that really messed up. Charlie and John lift one up and examine it. The messed up Freddy gives off a hum that makes John feel queasy. Charlie reaches into it to get the device making the noise, but her arm gets stuck. John gets her arm out and they destroy the device. The next day, Charlie is driving and sees a bunch of vultures circling around in a field. Charlie looks and finds a body. Charlie calls Clay and the police pick up the body. Clay brings Charlie, Jessica, and John along to look for more bodies. At night, they find a dirt patch. They dig it up to find an animatronic. A lady is in the animatronic and she is barely alive. They get her out and bring her to the hospital. Charlie realizes that the animatronics want her. She goes to the lady’s house and lets one of the animatronics take her. Clay, Jessica, and John realize that Charlie is missing. Clay tells the two that he has the animatronics from the pizzeria. Clay brings the two to his house and brings them to the animatronics. Jessica and John tell the animatronics that Charlie is missing. The animatronics get out of Clay’s house and start the search. The book gets back to Charlie, where she wakes up in some new pizzeria. She tries to escapes, but she sees the ghosts of the children. Charlie is forced back into a suit by an animatronic is knocked out in the process. The book jumps back to the group which is slowly finding where Charlie is. The book jumps back to Charlie, who has woken up and is about to escape. Charlie hears John, who has broken down a wall to get into the pizzeria. The animatronics try to attack the group, but the good animatronics attack them. Clay shoots some of the messed up animatronics and it turns out they were just illusions. Dave comes back to try and kill Charlie, but John knocks him out. Dave wakes back up and tells Charlie that he actually took Charlie and not her brother. John tells Charlie that it is time to leave, but Charlie refuses to leave because she thinks that her brother is still in the springtrap suit. The pizzeria collapse and both Charlie and Dave die. The book ends with John and Jessica talking to Arty and Marla.
Characterization: Charlie changes from being a detective trying to figure out who killed the four people to being dead. Dave changed from being dead to becoming “Springtrap” to being dead for good.
Setting: This book takes place in the little town of Hurricane. This is where several people are found dead with marks from the animatronics. This book also takes place in a different Freddy’s Pizzeria than the other book. This is where Charlie is taken when she gets herself kidnapped and where she and Dave finally die. This book also takes place a year after the events of the first book. The characters are getting over the events of what happened in the pizzeria.
Recommendation: I recommend this book to boys and girls at the age level of 13 and up. The reason for that age group would be that there is some gore in the book. I would not want some kids reading about the gore, even though the gore is not as bad as the first book. I also recommend this book for any Five Nights at Freddy’s fan because it keeps adding to the lore of the series.
August 26, 2024
No spoko z ciekawości doczytam 3 cześć jednak nwm takie bez smaku to jest
June 29, 2022
Un segundo libro flojo
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