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Horror High #2
Resolved: You’re Dead
Lisa's boyfriend Skip was proud to make the debate team, but he never survived the initiation. Lisa is convinced that someone on the brainy high school team has learned how to make an argument that can kill.
130 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1990
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Nicholas Adams
16 books19 followersNicholas Adams is a collective pen name created by Daniel Weiss Associates and used by several authors of YA horror written in the 1990s. These include John Peel, James D. MacDonald and Debra Doyle, and Sherwood Smith.
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June 9, 2023
I'm a huge 90s teen horror fan and this was my first foray in to the Horror High series. On the whole I enjoyed this, but the characters weren't very fleshed out and the end reveal was easy to work out. The premise was really good and there were a few decent horror scenes in it so I will definitely try another book in the series.
Skip has a great tryout at the high school debate team and beats out one of the regular debaters to join this years squad. Feeling threatened, the team have an initiation for him which goes horribly wrong ending in his death. Can his girlfriend find out who was responsible? Or will she be another victim?
Skip has a great tryout at the high school debate team and beats out one of the regular debaters to join this years squad. Feeling threatened, the team have an initiation for him which goes horribly wrong ending in his death. Can his girlfriend find out who was responsible? Or will she be another victim?
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September 25, 2023High school debate team rivals murdering each other indiscriminately? ✅
Shockingly gory violence for a 90s teen thriller? ✅
Medium speed snowmobile chases across a frozen lake? ✅
A gratuitous scene of a carful of teens driving all the way to another town to attend a Humphrey Bogart film festival? ✅
Coleman Stokes wrote the first five Horror High novels, and I've gotta check out the other four stat cuz this one was WILD. 🤯🤯🤯
Here I was thinking I was pulling a Fear Street Lite out of the fridge when instead I gulped down a Pike Ultra.
Shockingly gory violence for a 90s teen thriller? ✅
Medium speed snowmobile chases across a frozen lake? ✅
A gratuitous scene of a carful of teens driving all the way to another town to attend a Humphrey Bogart film festival? ✅
Coleman Stokes wrote the first five Horror High novels, and I've gotta check out the other four stat cuz this one was WILD. 🤯🤯🤯
Here I was thinking I was pulling a Fear Street Lite out of the fridge when instead I gulped down a Pike Ultra.
May 26, 2021
Well that escalated quickly
February 27, 2022
Unresolved: Why everyone kept calling it the “debating-team” instead of the “debate team”. Who says debating-team?!
Also, I didn’t expect the time jump from the beginning of the school year to Christmas, but I’m always down for more Christmas horror.
Also, I didn’t expect the time jump from the beginning of the school year to Christmas, but I’m always down for more Christmas horror.
April 18, 2023
This was okay, but kinda weird.
November 25, 2023
Has a batshit ending that more than makes up for the fact that what feels like fully 80% of this book is debate team nerds doing debate team nerd things, such as driving around in station wagons in a responsible manner while discussing the freakin debate team. All of which is forgiven due to the aforementioned pulpy insanity at the end.
April 28, 2023
Being the second entry in the Horror High series after Mr. Popularity with its craziness to start the whole thing off with a bang, this one is like a breather episode before we get to the third one, Heartbreaker.
Which is also filled with some craziness.
There are some crazy kills in this one and one of the characters is clearly crazy (more so than a few others which says something) but the motive is just the same old same old for one of these.
On a side note, I took a debate class in high school to try to get better at public speaking but did not do debate as an elective. Debate is no joke so as you can see here I am writing a book review on Goodreads and not vlogging as much as I do.
Lot of good it did me right?
Lisa Enright is like me...she's not very good at public speaking. Her boyfriend Skip Masters on the other hand is a pretty good orator for being only a sophomore at Creswell High so he wants to be on the debate team.
He almost misses his chance being tardy before the tryouts for an opening start. Good old Skip though is a very confident person and kind of laughs it off even though he is against the seniors vying for that elusive spot.
Lisa gets elected to be the secretary for the team and take minutes when Mr. Ferris almost boots her out since she isn't auditioning thanks to Donna Forsi, team member and girlfriend of the captain, Art Lawing.
Donna is a nice person, I like her. Lisa and Skip are also very cute.
The other members are a toss up though.
Art seems too confident since he is rich so it makes him arrogant compared to Skip just being a composed individual until he gets pushed to a certain limit.
Jeffrey Goodman has been the researcher for the team since freshman year but not really one of those who gets in front of the crowd and he acts like the bigger man when Skip beat him for that orator spot yet...I don't know.
Bill Boland use to date Donna but she ended up with Art and Bill now has a crush on Lisa but she is with Skip. As we get to see, Bill is not the strongest link in his team's chain when it comes to debating and that has to be hard for an upperclassman to be well...outclassed by a lowly sophomore that is dating the girl you have the hots for.
The blurb on the back is slightly misleading in one regard to the plot.
There is no "real" initiation for members of the debate club. It is just the older boys being bitter about Skip for their numerous reasons...again old hat by now. I won't spoil exactly whom the responsible party is for Skip's death or anything about the second "incident" either.
What leads to Skip meeting his end didn't really have to happen but that was the one flaw I mentioned about his character. Push him too hard and he will prove he is not a coward but if you also do something to hurt anyone he cares about...
All he wanted to do was go to see a Humphrey Bogart film festival with his girlfriend...*sniffs back tears*
The ending is what kept me from giving this two stars. The climax is crazy and a little bit of a curve but the ending was just...wholesome I guess. It is bittersweet and schmaltzy but I can't help but shed a tear...
Resolved: You're Dead has some good characters, wild deaths and a touching ending. Of the Horror High books I have read, it may not be the strongest but it is still a good read and I would recommend it you have yet to do so...
Which is also filled with some craziness.
There are some crazy kills in this one and one of the characters is clearly crazy (more so than a few others which says something) but the motive is just the same old same old for one of these.
On a side note, I took a debate class in high school to try to get better at public speaking but did not do debate as an elective. Debate is no joke so as you can see here I am writing a book review on Goodreads and not vlogging as much as I do.
Lot of good it did me right?
Lisa Enright is like me...she's not very good at public speaking. Her boyfriend Skip Masters on the other hand is a pretty good orator for being only a sophomore at Creswell High so he wants to be on the debate team.
He almost misses his chance being tardy before the tryouts for an opening start. Good old Skip though is a very confident person and kind of laughs it off even though he is against the seniors vying for that elusive spot.
Lisa gets elected to be the secretary for the team and take minutes when Mr. Ferris almost boots her out since she isn't auditioning thanks to Donna Forsi, team member and girlfriend of the captain, Art Lawing.
Donna is a nice person, I like her. Lisa and Skip are also very cute.
The other members are a toss up though.
Art seems too confident since he is rich so it makes him arrogant compared to Skip just being a composed individual until he gets pushed to a certain limit.
Jeffrey Goodman has been the researcher for the team since freshman year but not really one of those who gets in front of the crowd and he acts like the bigger man when Skip beat him for that orator spot yet...I don't know.
Bill Boland use to date Donna but she ended up with Art and Bill now has a crush on Lisa but she is with Skip. As we get to see, Bill is not the strongest link in his team's chain when it comes to debating and that has to be hard for an upperclassman to be well...outclassed by a lowly sophomore that is dating the girl you have the hots for.
The blurb on the back is slightly misleading in one regard to the plot.
There is no "real" initiation for members of the debate club. It is just the older boys being bitter about Skip for their numerous reasons...again old hat by now. I won't spoil exactly whom the responsible party is for Skip's death or anything about the second "incident" either.
What leads to Skip meeting his end didn't really have to happen but that was the one flaw I mentioned about his character. Push him too hard and he will prove he is not a coward but if you also do something to hurt anyone he cares about...
All he wanted to do was go to see a Humphrey Bogart film festival with his girlfriend...*sniffs back tears*
The ending is what kept me from giving this two stars. The climax is crazy and a little bit of a curve but the ending was just...wholesome I guess. It is bittersweet and schmaltzy but I can't help but shed a tear...
Resolved: You're Dead has some good characters, wild deaths and a touching ending. Of the Horror High books I have read, it may not be the strongest but it is still a good read and I would recommend it you have yet to do so...
July 10, 2021
Things are off to a good start when Lisa and her boyfriend, Skip both make the debate team at school. Their good luck doesn't last long though when Skip is found dead.
The deadly prank gone wrong sets off a horrible chain reaction of secrets and even death for those on the debate team.
A pretty good predictable read that escalated quickly towards the end.
There wasn't really anything original or memorable about this one overall.
The deadly prank gone wrong sets off a horrible chain reaction of secrets and even death for those on the debate team.
A pretty good predictable read that escalated quickly towards the end.
There wasn't really anything original or memorable about this one overall.
April 7, 2015
1 star
I have to admit that I am so happy I´m done with this book. It was a kind of little bit crazy, creepy and egoistic book with a strange storyline, and weird characters.
I didn´t like the plot much neither any of the characters. Don´t have more words to say.
I have to admit that I am so happy I´m done with this book. It was a kind of little bit crazy, creepy and egoistic book with a strange storyline, and weird characters.
I didn´t like the plot much neither any of the characters. Don´t have more words to say.
February 22, 2023
6 debate team friends hanging out at a lake-house. It's senior year and one of them will get a scholarship. A prank turns deadly and someone drowns by accident. 2 can keep a secret if no one else finds out, unless the prank was really murder and not an accident. It was supposed to be fun and safe, parents and kids cooking food and helping out like one huge family. But something sinister is lucking outside.
October 7, 2022
What a weird book.
March 19, 2015
I've always liked these quick teen "horror" reads, but this one is pretty awful. There is no real mystery to it, since you know halfway through the book who the killer is. There is one twist at the end, but it's a pretty predictable one. Definitely not something I've ever read again, and I'm not likely to seek out anything else by this author.
March 27, 2015
Ur...no. Just no.
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