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Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #1
Into the Pit: An AFK Book
What do you wish for most? It's a question that Oswald, Sarah, and Millie think they know the answer to. Oswald wishes his summer wasn't so boring, Sarah wishes to be beautiful, and Millie wishes she could just disappear from the face of the earth. But in the twisted world of Five Nights at Freddy's, their hearts' deepest desires have an unexpected cost.
In this volume, Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length stories from different corners of his series' canon, featuring cover art from fan-favorite artist LadyFiszi.
Readers beware: This collection of terrifying tales is enough to unsettle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's fans.
In this volume, Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length stories from different corners of his series' canon, featuring cover art from fan-favorite artist LadyFiszi.
Readers beware: This collection of terrifying tales is enough to unsettle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's fans.
224 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 26, 2019
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145 books2,330 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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January 30, 2020
I think this book is about as well-written as the Goosebumps books, but I couldn’t help but notice that this book is horribly negative towards its teen girl protagonists. I would definitely hesitate to give these stories to girls.
The first story has a young boy protagonist and the narrative is sympathetic towards him. The last two stories have teen girl protagonists.
The stories are viciously judgmental towards them for wanting things many girls that age want—to be pretty and to have a boyfriend.
The punishments they face are many, many degrees more violent and extreme than the ones faced by the male protagonist. I hope as this series continues, the writers evaluate the messages they are promoting.
The first story has a young boy protagonist and the narrative is sympathetic towards him. The last two stories have teen girl protagonists.
The stories are viciously judgmental towards them for wanting things many girls that age want—to be pretty and to have a boyfriend.
The punishments they face are many, many degrees more violent and extreme than the ones faced by the male protagonist. I hope as this series continues, the writers evaluate the messages they are promoting.
February 22, 2022
I finally managed to pick up Fazbear Frights after watching so many Game Theory videos listening to MatPat chat about this series. I have loved the video games and lore since the original Five Nights at Freddy's came out (yeah, I'm an OG - it's been a fun and wild ride), so it was a natural fit to pick up this series. It took a while, but I managed to pick up a copy on my Kobo (FINALLY...). And then it took me a while to get into this book.
I'm going to keep my review short and sweet, but will post all of my thoughts on my blog. This book was... not exactly a winner for me.
Into the Pit - Oswald's story - was the best of the three. The start isn't the best, but once you get going it's pretty fun! The lore from the video games made me smile even if they aren't supposed to be directly connected. This story got about a 4/5 from me.
Sarah's story was the middle book with the middle rating. The self esteem issues our new friend Sarah has made me sad and I really wish it wouldn't have been the main plot of the story. The animatronic and creepy nature of the story was SO COOL but was overpowered by the fat phobia and female self esteem issues. Seriously, so sad. 3/5 for story but downgraded to 2/5 for the harsh treatment of female beauty standards.
Millie's story... was super lacking for me. It just didn't sit well with me and I was bored to tears. We should have gone out with a bang, but we didn't. 1/5. I just didn't enjoy the "how can we die" monologue over and over and over... It felt dull, but that's not my type of horror.
And then the epilogue. This is an interesting one because, from my understanding, each book is going to have another piece of this story and keep continuing until the last book of the Fazbear Frights series. Super cool though, but honestly... I'm not going to binge all of these books in a row, so I'd bet some serious money (if I had any...) that I'm going to forget to go back and re-read all of the epilogues. Maybe I will... but I doubt it. Cool marketing technique though. It might get a few more people binging the books. Maybe.
Overall... It's okay. Not the best, but still a pretty good start. I'm going to slowly work my way through this series since I'm a FNAF nerd, but I'm not in a real big rush. But I am impressed we're basically getting a Goosebumps/Fear Street anthology series from FNAF. I LOVED Goosebumps as a kid, so seeing an adult guilty pleasure of mine trying their own spin on the horror anthology? Super cool. I dig it.
Two out of five stars.
I'm going to keep my review short and sweet, but will post all of my thoughts on my blog. This book was... not exactly a winner for me.
Into the Pit - Oswald's story - was the best of the three. The start isn't the best, but once you get going it's pretty fun! The lore from the video games made me smile even if they aren't supposed to be directly connected. This story got about a 4/5 from me.
Sarah's story was the middle book with the middle rating. The self esteem issues our new friend Sarah has made me sad and I really wish it wouldn't have been the main plot of the story. The animatronic and creepy nature of the story was SO COOL but was overpowered by the fat phobia and female self esteem issues. Seriously, so sad. 3/5 for story but downgraded to 2/5 for the harsh treatment of female beauty standards.
Millie's story... was super lacking for me. It just didn't sit well with me and I was bored to tears. We should have gone out with a bang, but we didn't. 1/5. I just didn't enjoy the "how can we die" monologue over and over and over... It felt dull, but that's not my type of horror.
And then the epilogue. This is an interesting one because, from my understanding, each book is going to have another piece of this story and keep continuing until the last book of the Fazbear Frights series. Super cool though, but honestly... I'm not going to binge all of these books in a row, so I'd bet some serious money (if I had any...) that I'm going to forget to go back and re-read all of the epilogues. Maybe I will... but I doubt it. Cool marketing technique though. It might get a few more people binging the books. Maybe.
Overall... It's okay. Not the best, but still a pretty good start. I'm going to slowly work my way through this series since I'm a FNAF nerd, but I'm not in a real big rush. But I am impressed we're basically getting a Goosebumps/Fear Street anthology series from FNAF. I LOVED Goosebumps as a kid, so seeing an adult guilty pleasure of mine trying their own spin on the horror anthology? Super cool. I dig it.
Two out of five stars.
April 1, 2024
start date: march 31, 2024
GUYS HEAR ME OUT HERE, IT COULD BE GOOD
finish date: april 1, 2024
when i tell you that book was WILD
GUYS HEAR ME OUT HERE, IT COULD BE GOOD
finish date: april 1, 2024
when i tell you that book was WILD
January 23, 2020
“I know you like Poe because he’s dark and spooky, and it’s easy to romanticize death when you’re young and it’s so far away. But Poe didn’t write about death because he thought it was romantic. He wrote about it because he lost so many of the people he loved. You’ve never experienced that kind of loss, Millie. It...changes you.”
“Oh, but that really takes action, doesn’t it?” The voice said. “Changing a life for the better, especially when the world is such a mean, rotten place?”
I loved these FNAF short stories! So well written. I loved getting to see more pieces of the lore start to be revealed. They were quick but with just enough description to make me truly interested in the characters. Haunting! Loved it. Can’t wait for the next ones!
“Oh, but that really takes action, doesn’t it?” The voice said. “Changing a life for the better, especially when the world is such a mean, rotten place?”
I loved these FNAF short stories! So well written. I loved getting to see more pieces of the lore start to be revealed. They were quick but with just enough description to make me truly interested in the characters. Haunting! Loved it. Can’t wait for the next ones!
May 25, 2024
Se un pochino mi conoscete sapete che se c'è un coniglio in copertina o nel titolo di un libro beh....non posso non leggerlo.
E se poi questo libro è anche un genere che mi garba ancora meglio no?
Five Nights at Freddy’s nasce come videogioco e successivamente diventa libro e film.
Un horror all'apparenza banale, perché si coglie quasi subito l'epilogo, ma davvero piacevole....che poi si può dire piacevole di una storia horror?
Direi adatta anche per un pubblico gggiovane, un po' tipo Piccoli Brividi ecco, ma incentrata ovviamente su questi animali meccanici.
Abbiamo un coniglio gigante giallo che vive in un mondo parallelo al nostro e che è pronto a farci dimenticare la solitudine.
Una splendida robottina che pur di renderci felici è disposta a qualsiasi sacrificio per noi.
Ed infine abbiamo uno splendido orso bianco e rosa che ci mostrerà, nella notte di Natale, cosa conta di più nella nostra vita.
E se poi questo libro è anche un genere che mi garba ancora meglio no?
Five Nights at Freddy’s nasce come videogioco e successivamente diventa libro e film.
Un horror all'apparenza banale, perché si coglie quasi subito l'epilogo, ma davvero piacevole....che poi si può dire piacevole di una storia horror?
Direi adatta anche per un pubblico gggiovane, un po' tipo Piccoli Brividi ecco, ma incentrata ovviamente su questi animali meccanici.
Abbiamo un coniglio gigante giallo che vive in un mondo parallelo al nostro e che è pronto a farci dimenticare la solitudine.
Una splendida robottina che pur di renderci felici è disposta a qualsiasi sacrificio per noi.
Ed infine abbiamo uno splendido orso bianco e rosa che ci mostrerà, nella notte di Natale, cosa conta di più nella nostra vita.
December 15, 2019
(NON SPOILER)
I received an ARC of this book
I'm interested in the FNaF series, and I am really looking forward to the rest of these upcoming short stories.
Fazbear Frights #1 Into The Pit is something you would not expect out of FNaF, the events that occur are almost out of nowhere, and are uh, very confusing confusing, however, in some weird way, it all made sense by the end of the stories, at-least some.
Now, I can say to all the FNaF enthusiasts out there, no; this is clearly not a book that is taking place within the games timeline, I myself am a diehard FNaF theorist, and it's clear here that, it's not supposed to be used as a book to solve the games, disappointingly.
However, there are some references, and POTENTIAL connections you could make to the games that are definitely eye opening, and... certainly VERY disturbing for the average FNaF you're used to, it's clear that Scott wanted to take a more, darker tone; it's also nothing like the old novels, the character's here do have a lot more written into them, and it's quite shocking that you see the situations they end up in... especially the ones that got what was coming.
ts an okay book, and it's certainly not a book used for the games, newcomers will certainly enjoy it, but if you want a darker fnaf route, if you enjoy Stranger Things, Lovecraft, ETC, you will certainly enjoy this book
You're in for an... interesting ride.
EDIT 1:
I've seen some out-lash on another review about a girl with an eating disorder, now this is definitely true but uh, it's there for a reason, every story in this book does have a gimmick, but it relates to them of course, the girl with the eating disorder is there for a reason, I won't say why yet, but yes, there is clearly a reason for this.
EDIT 2: Hey reddit :)
EDIT 3: Hey Freddit Discord. :)
I received an ARC of this book
I'm interested in the FNaF series, and I am really looking forward to the rest of these upcoming short stories.
Fazbear Frights #1 Into The Pit is something you would not expect out of FNaF, the events that occur are almost out of nowhere, and are uh, very confusing confusing, however, in some weird way, it all made sense by the end of the stories, at-least some.
Now, I can say to all the FNaF enthusiasts out there, no; this is clearly not a book that is taking place within the games timeline, I myself am a diehard FNaF theorist, and it's clear here that, it's not supposed to be used as a book to solve the games, disappointingly.
However, there are some references, and POTENTIAL connections you could make to the games that are definitely eye opening, and... certainly VERY disturbing for the average FNaF you're used to, it's clear that Scott wanted to take a more, darker tone; it's also nothing like the old novels, the character's here do have a lot more written into them, and it's quite shocking that you see the situations they end up in... especially the ones that got what was coming.
ts an okay book, and it's certainly not a book used for the games, newcomers will certainly enjoy it, but if you want a darker fnaf route, if you enjoy Stranger Things, Lovecraft, ETC, you will certainly enjoy this book
You're in for an... interesting ride.
EDIT 1:
I've seen some out-lash on another review about a girl with an eating disorder, now this is definitely true but uh, it's there for a reason, every story in this book does have a gimmick, but it relates to them of course, the girl with the eating disorder is there for a reason, I won't say why yet, but yes, there is clearly a reason for this.
EDIT 2: Hey reddit :)
EDIT 3: Hey Freddit Discord. :)
September 27, 2020
My daughter and I read this collection of three novella aloud together right before bed. She's a big FNAF fan- has read the main trilogy of books and played the games- and she wanted to share these stories with me.
They remind me a bit of Goosebumps books, but all three have some connection to the FNAF world. I was pleasnetly surprised how much I enjoyed reading these stories! A time traveling ball pit in a pizza parlor? I've never seen that before? And the classic themes of wanting to belong and fit in work well with the horror elements in these stories.
Overall, I'd recommend reading this collection if you are familiar with the FNAF world. I think you'd appreciate them much more than if you just approach them blind.
They remind me a bit of Goosebumps books, but all three have some connection to the FNAF world. I was pleasnetly surprised how much I enjoyed reading these stories! A time traveling ball pit in a pizza parlor? I've never seen that before? And the classic themes of wanting to belong and fit in work well with the horror elements in these stories.
Overall, I'd recommend reading this collection if you are familiar with the FNAF world. I think you'd appreciate them much more than if you just approach them blind.
April 28, 2019
Scott Master
October 26, 2024
Story 1: Dylan Cooper is such a standard name for a bully. Anyway, I liked the whole time travelling back into the 80s thing and how eerie the animatronic was in this story.
4/5
Story 2: The protagonist literally insulted her childhood best friend. How could she!
Also, in general the whole beauty stuff and pretending to be someone you are not (not being individual) is so annoying and the characters also all felt shallow. Perhaps it was done on purpose to give the effect of how it is to pretend to be someone you aren't, which would be cool, but the whole topic made me roll my eyes constantly. The ending was also predictable.
1/5
Story 3: Millie the protagonist was hugely annoying. Thinking about the death as handsome (romantacising), but not wanting to eat meat as that's murder. Also, the whole self-pity was so unnecessary and made the character just more un-likeable.
Not eating meat is NOT more healthy. We need meat to develop properly (especially for the brain) and it has in general stuff inside that your body needs that we don't find elsewhere.
Self-pity examples:
But the story got better while reading and it felt like Millie had depression, so it wasn't really an excuse for her behaviour, but at least she had a reason for all this. Also one plus point for the ending to be something I always wanted to see/read about as a FNAF fan.
3/5
Total: 2.4 stars
Rounded up: 3 stars
Story review + content warnings
4/5
Story 2: The protagonist literally insulted her childhood best friend. How could she!
Also, in general the whole beauty stuff and pretending to be someone you are not (not being individual) is so annoying and the characters also all felt shallow. Perhaps it was done on purpose to give the effect of how it is to pretend to be someone you aren't, which would be cool, but the whole topic made me roll my eyes constantly. The ending was also predictable.
1/5
Story 3: Millie the protagonist was hugely annoying. Thinking about the death as handsome (romantacising), but not wanting to eat meat as that's murder. Also, the whole self-pity was so unnecessary and made the character just more un-likeable.
"It would probably be better for my health to eat less meat anyway"
Not eating meat is NOT more healthy. We need meat to develop properly (especially for the brain) and it has in general stuff inside that your body needs that we don't find elsewhere.
Self-pity examples:
"I'm glad I'm not happy. Happy people are just lying to themselves.
"Homework was a misery. School was a misery. Her whole life was a misery."
But the story got better while reading and it felt like Millie had depression, so it wasn't really an excuse for her behaviour, but at least she had a reason for all this. Also one plus point for the ending to be something I always wanted to see/read about as a FNAF fan.
3/5
Total: 2.4 stars
Rounded up: 3 stars
Story review + content warnings
April 12, 2022
This was a great book. It has 3 story's in it. The first one is about a kid named Oswald who just wants a funner summer. I think the lesson for that one is be grateful for what you have. He gets into some trouble on his way through summer. The second one, is about a girl named Sarah who wants to be pretty. She finds a doll, fixes it up, and it grants her wishes. I think the lesson for this one is always be yourself. The last one, is about a girl named Millie. She wishes to dissapear off the Earth. I think the lesson for this one is be careful for what you wish for. There is a voice who offers to grant her wish, but she then realizes; she doesn't want to leave, she wants to live her life. It kind of leaves you at a cliff hanger at the end if she lives or not.
April 18, 2023
This is a collection of 3 short stories about the Five Nights Universe. The implications of some of the stories were the truly chilling part of it. I love the idea of the end of each book being a chapter and to get the full story you have to read each volume.
1. Into the Pit: Not the scariest, but definitely weird. A time-traveling ball pit that leads to the 80's version of Freddy's was the real star here. Although the hung golden Bonnie was gross.
2. To Be Beautiful: By far my favorite in this volume. Very scary. A teen girl wishes on a robot to be pretty, but it's a Be Careful What You Wish For story; and the ending gave me goosebumps.
3. Let Me Count the Ways: My least favorite of the 3; this goth girl also learns to be careful what she wishes for and learns maybe death isn't so cool. The closest to the lore we know, she had crawled into the empty cavity inside a bear animatronic but he is listing the ways he can kill her. An open-ending but still spooky nonetheless.
1. Into the Pit: Not the scariest, but definitely weird. A time-traveling ball pit that leads to the 80's version of Freddy's was the real star here. Although the hung golden Bonnie was gross.
2. To Be Beautiful: By far my favorite in this volume. Very scary. A teen girl wishes on a robot to be pretty, but it's a Be Careful What You Wish For story; and the ending gave me goosebumps.
3. Let Me Count the Ways: My least favorite of the 3; this goth girl also learns to be careful what she wishes for and learns maybe death isn't so cool. The closest to the lore we know, she had crawled into the empty cavity inside a bear animatronic but he is listing the ways he can kill her. An open-ending but still spooky nonetheless.
March 30, 2023
I see why my students like this book! Overall it was fast paced, had important lessons, and definitely was creepy! I wasn’t totally thrilled with some of the characterization of our female leads compared to the male. Our female protagonists were very centered on beauty, thinness, and impressing boys. Not to mention both of them died while the male didn’t. It’s a good read for middle school, but perhaps not my first recommendation.
April 13, 2021
It wasn't as scary as I wanted thought the last story was a little creepy..
July 5, 2023
guys please don’t ask
November 7, 2020
First things first: this isn't a book I'd have picked for myself, nor did I even know it existed until I decided to let my library app choose a book for me. I outright hate FNAF as a game, but I enjoy the energy Markiplier brings to playing it and I have a friend who's basically obsessed with MatPat's theories on the lore, so I'm still familiar with it. Not enough to pick a book based on this world, but hey I decided to stick with what the library app chose, so here we are - and I'm one book closer to my 2020 reading goal, so that's a win regardless.
This book, however, is not a win itself. It's average at best, but frankly a bit less due to having a very Knockoff Goosebumps feel to the juvenile writing style... and the disproportionately cruel way the female characters with very common real life problems were treated compared to the male character who had similarly realistic issues yet was a complete brat about them. That just doesn't settle well with me.
Into the Pit - ★★★☆☆
Holy crap, did I ever hate the main character!
The story begins with a sympathetic take on Oswald: he's sad and lonely and miserable now that his family is facing financial hardship and his best friend has moved away. His mother is trying very hard to help him and his father has taken a low-paying job - the only thing available - to make ends meet. Oz being sad makes sense. Even being upset does, because everything is falling apart around him, but by the second third-to-quarter of the story this kid loses all sympathy by turning into an ungrateful, little monster.
Oh, his parents try to give him movie nights and have fun with him even though they can't afford to go out? Horrible! His friend has vacations at beaches and he should, too! Oh, his parents still let him have a daily slice of takeout pizza? How dare they not give him a dollar more so he can have a different flavour! Oh, his dad wastes fuel and time to drop Oz off at the library and pick him up all the time? Clearly that means his dad is 'throwing him away' every day and expending zero effort! Time to hide in a ball pit and force Dad to come find him to teach that terrible parent a lesson!
It's disgusting and infuriating. The kid's parents are genuinely trying and he doesn't care because he can't have every single thing he wants anymore. So he finds a way out, seemingly magically rewarded for his behaviour... until things go very, very wrong.
And let me tell you: seeing things go wrong for Oswald piqued my interest, even though the events were as crazy and nonsensical as reading a Goosebumps book. Seeing this ingrate learn a valuable lesson the hard way was completely worth the middlegrade level writing and complete absurdity of a magical, giant bunny everyone (except Oz) thinks is a real human. But, y'know. There was still a magical, giant, evil bunny which may very well be Zipper the Bunny Day mascot from Animal Crossing: New Horizons turned evil by the backlash from villagers all around the globe. Actually, that would have been horrifying. This... wasn't.
I did like the time travel element and the general concept of Oz coming to terms with life being unfair while learning to appreciate what he already has, which made this entertaining enough to classify as average. But honestly that's about all I find worth saying about this one.
To Be Beautiful - ★★☆☆☆
Sarah is a pudgy girl with plain hair and a flat chest who dreams of attaining supermodel beauty. Like most average girls her age, she hates her body and feels ugly. And, like many unfortunate girls who are ridiculed for not being supermodels, she starves herself on a 'low carb diet' in hopes of losing weight.
She isn't an ingrate. She isn't a bad person, though of course she's human enough to make bad choices and say things that aren't perfectly nice when she's upset. She's just a sad, young girl who - like many of us did at her age - wants to meet her own goal of ideal beauty and wants to feel good in her own skin. Her best friend berates and judges her for this, and the narrative seems to think her friend is correct - which is made explicitly clear during the horrific outcome of Sarah's tale.
Oz in the previous story was a worse person and he got a happy ending. Sarah did not; she got an ending filled with unfathomable betrayal. As a woman who was once just like Sarah and still suffers self-image issues, I'm disgusted by the ending of this story. I'm infuriated by how the author chose to handle Sarah's tale. And honestly, I also felt a little uncomfortable with some of the wording for Sarah's thoughts about herself.
Also? No, you don't have to bleach hair before using platinum hair "dye" - the whole point is that a platinum kit bleaches and tones it for you. And, no, the smell from hair lightening products doesn't magically become overwhelming only after rinsed, especially in a small, closed space like a bathroom. And, no, you don't follow a botched bleach-and-dye job with a colour removal and more dye the same day, unless you want your hair to fall out by the handfuls. And for good measure? No, it's not okay to call green hair dye ugly and Martian-like, especially when your target audience is very likely to include young girls who want to experiment with hair dye just like the character being shamed and punished for seeking a change of hair.
I just have a lot of grouchy emotions about how this tale seems to have a very vicious moral aimed at teens with self-image issues, eating disorders, and depression. While reading it, I thought perhaps the message would be a positive one about shallow people not being worthwhile and true friends accepting the real you, but nope. Seems to be more about how anyone who tries to change to make themselves feel more attractive is actually a worthless pile of trash who doesn't deserve to live. I sincerely hope that's just my ability to relate to Sarah making me feel disrespected and not the actual moral of this story.
Oh, and to add insult to injury, the magic element makes absolutely zero sense. Even less than a giant, yellow bunny everyone ignores. I'm not surprised, given these are FNAF stories, but I'm still annoyed.
Count the Ways - ★★☆☆☆
Hoo boy, this tale is something else. From the very beginning, it launches into berating a teenage girl for having a goth aesthetic and dark interests. And I don't mean subtly, either. I mean Freddy Freakin' Fazbear is given a human voice, with which he taunts and belittles the girl, Millie, in a cruel and condescending manner, insisting that because she was always so obsessed with death now she must die to "have her dream date with Death."
It's brutal. "Goth girl taunted and forced to choose her own method of being murdered while being gaslighted about how it's what she always wanted when she's clearly saying she wants to live" level brutal. What is this, Saw installment one thousand?! I know FNAF can be brutal itself, but it feels a lot different in this context than in a silly game with subpar graphics.
I felt physically ill reading this one. It made me uneasy. The way the bear spoke to Millie felt very much like real life bullies who abuse teens or tell depressed and suicidal victims to just go ahead and kill themselves etc. All this, and her only "crime" is being a melodramatic teenager who's a little creepy and unhappy with her lot in life. Ouch. Why so cruel to the female characters?!
Anyway, Millie isn't the nicest of kids, but she has reasons when she acts out. Her parents went to a completely different country for the sake of 'adventure' and she was left behind with her grandfather. He's a loving and accepting person who is a magnificent gem, but that doesn't stop Millie from feeling unhappy. She has her heart broken, so she acts mean toward the other girl incolved. Her fascination with death and the goth aesthetic is a bit intense, but... well, who can't relate to the goth phase, really? I know I had one that spanned from late elementary school into sophomore year of high school.
There isn't much more to this one, either. It just shows flashbacks to explain how Millie came to be in the animatronic bear's clutches and the problems which led to her emotional low, interspersed with the 'present time' wherein she's being forced to choose a method of death. I think it's trying to be profound, but it very much isn't.
In fact, the voice taunting Millie sounds more like a deranged, adult man than... well, a sentiment animatronic bear. He has the kind of knowledge only a human should and taunts her in a very human-sounding way. Maybe I'm just missing something from the lore and it's a demon or other humanoid spirit, but I can't imagine if I were watching Markiplier sit there while one of the game characters gave long-winded monologues about how the player character deserved to die. It would not be fun to watch, just as this was not fun to read.
If the obnoxious demon-bear Jigsaw stand-in were removed and this were a story about a teenage girl coming to terms with life and realizing she wanted to live and treat others better, I'd have enjoyed it. Grandpa is a delight and Dylan is a great character. Millie, while flawed, feels realistic and likable due to the empathy she inspires. But nope, gotta have the awkward FNAF angle...
... and an infuriatingly open-ended conclusion.
Untitled Epilogue - ★☆☆☆☆
A brief, overly dense, and boring foray into what appears to be setting up the next book. It details a detective being handed what amounts to an X-File case over the strange demise of Sarah from story two. Also, his family life sucks, apparently.
Nothing more to say about this one.
Overall ★★★☆☆
These stories feel very much like middlegrade writing, as I've already mentioned, but I cannot fathom handing this book to a child between 11 and 14 years of age - especially if they're a girl. It's uncomfortable that I can relate to having been like both of the female characters in this collection and they both get brutally murdered as twisted punishment for being like me. How will actual kids who read this feel, especially when they see themselves in Sarah or Millie?
I'm not saying that horror which makes readers uncomfortable is inherently bad. I'm just saying: the implied target audience based on the writing style is too young for this content. But, hey, if a kid is already into FNAF, perhaps they're used to stuff like this. Who knows?
While glad this was a quick read, I also am very glad to be through with it. I highly doubt I'll read any more of the books in this series.
This book, however, is not a win itself. It's average at best, but frankly a bit less due to having a very Knockoff Goosebumps feel to the juvenile writing style... and the disproportionately cruel way the female characters with very common real life problems were treated compared to the male character who had similarly realistic issues yet was a complete brat about them. That just doesn't settle well with me.
Into the Pit - ★★★☆☆
Holy crap, did I ever hate the main character!
The story begins with a sympathetic take on Oswald: he's sad and lonely and miserable now that his family is facing financial hardship and his best friend has moved away. His mother is trying very hard to help him and his father has taken a low-paying job - the only thing available - to make ends meet. Oz being sad makes sense. Even being upset does, because everything is falling apart around him, but by the second third-to-quarter of the story this kid loses all sympathy by turning into an ungrateful, little monster.
Oh, his parents try to give him movie nights and have fun with him even though they can't afford to go out? Horrible! His friend has vacations at beaches and he should, too! Oh, his parents still let him have a daily slice of takeout pizza? How dare they not give him a dollar more so he can have a different flavour! Oh, his dad wastes fuel and time to drop Oz off at the library and pick him up all the time? Clearly that means his dad is 'throwing him away' every day and expending zero effort! Time to hide in a ball pit and force Dad to come find him to teach that terrible parent a lesson!
It's disgusting and infuriating. The kid's parents are genuinely trying and he doesn't care because he can't have every single thing he wants anymore. So he finds a way out, seemingly magically rewarded for his behaviour... until things go very, very wrong.
And let me tell you: seeing things go wrong for Oswald piqued my interest, even though the events were as crazy and nonsensical as reading a Goosebumps book. Seeing this ingrate learn a valuable lesson the hard way was completely worth the middlegrade level writing and complete absurdity of a magical, giant bunny everyone (except Oz) thinks is a real human. But, y'know. There was still a magical, giant, evil bunny which may very well be Zipper the Bunny Day mascot from Animal Crossing: New Horizons turned evil by the backlash from villagers all around the globe. Actually, that would have been horrifying. This... wasn't.
I did like the time travel element and the general concept of Oz coming to terms with life being unfair while learning to appreciate what he already has, which made this entertaining enough to classify as average. But honestly that's about all I find worth saying about this one.
To Be Beautiful - ★★☆☆☆
Sarah is a pudgy girl with plain hair and a flat chest who dreams of attaining supermodel beauty. Like most average girls her age, she hates her body and feels ugly. And, like many unfortunate girls who are ridiculed for not being supermodels, she starves herself on a 'low carb diet' in hopes of losing weight.
She isn't an ingrate. She isn't a bad person, though of course she's human enough to make bad choices and say things that aren't perfectly nice when she's upset. She's just a sad, young girl who - like many of us did at her age - wants to meet her own goal of ideal beauty and wants to feel good in her own skin. Her best friend berates and judges her for this, and the narrative seems to think her friend is correct - which is made explicitly clear during the horrific outcome of Sarah's tale.
Oz in the previous story was a worse person and he got a happy ending. Sarah did not; she got an ending filled with unfathomable betrayal. As a woman who was once just like Sarah and still suffers self-image issues, I'm disgusted by the ending of this story. I'm infuriated by how the author chose to handle Sarah's tale. And honestly, I also felt a little uncomfortable with some of the wording for Sarah's thoughts about herself.
Also? No, you don't have to bleach hair before using platinum hair "dye" - the whole point is that a platinum kit bleaches and tones it for you. And, no, the smell from hair lightening products doesn't magically become overwhelming only after rinsed, especially in a small, closed space like a bathroom. And, no, you don't follow a botched bleach-and-dye job with a colour removal and more dye the same day, unless you want your hair to fall out by the handfuls. And for good measure? No, it's not okay to call green hair dye ugly and Martian-like, especially when your target audience is very likely to include young girls who want to experiment with hair dye just like the character being shamed and punished for seeking a change of hair.
I just have a lot of grouchy emotions about how this tale seems to have a very vicious moral aimed at teens with self-image issues, eating disorders, and depression. While reading it, I thought perhaps the message would be a positive one about shallow people not being worthwhile and true friends accepting the real you, but nope. Seems to be more about how anyone who tries to change to make themselves feel more attractive is actually a worthless pile of trash who doesn't deserve to live. I sincerely hope that's just my ability to relate to Sarah making me feel disrespected and not the actual moral of this story.
Oh, and to add insult to injury, the magic element makes absolutely zero sense. Even less than a giant, yellow bunny everyone ignores. I'm not surprised, given these are FNAF stories, but I'm still annoyed.
Count the Ways - ★★☆☆☆
Hoo boy, this tale is something else. From the very beginning, it launches into berating a teenage girl for having a goth aesthetic and dark interests. And I don't mean subtly, either. I mean Freddy Freakin' Fazbear is given a human voice, with which he taunts and belittles the girl, Millie, in a cruel and condescending manner, insisting that because she was always so obsessed with death now she must die to "have her dream date with Death."
It's brutal. "Goth girl taunted and forced to choose her own method of being murdered while being gaslighted about how it's what she always wanted when she's clearly saying she wants to live" level brutal. What is this, Saw installment one thousand?! I know FNAF can be brutal itself, but it feels a lot different in this context than in a silly game with subpar graphics.
I felt physically ill reading this one. It made me uneasy. The way the bear spoke to Millie felt very much like real life bullies who abuse teens or tell depressed and suicidal victims to just go ahead and kill themselves etc. All this, and her only "crime" is being a melodramatic teenager who's a little creepy and unhappy with her lot in life. Ouch. Why so cruel to the female characters?!
Anyway, Millie isn't the nicest of kids, but she has reasons when she acts out. Her parents went to a completely different country for the sake of 'adventure' and she was left behind with her grandfather. He's a loving and accepting person who is a magnificent gem, but that doesn't stop Millie from feeling unhappy. She has her heart broken, so she acts mean toward the other girl incolved. Her fascination with death and the goth aesthetic is a bit intense, but... well, who can't relate to the goth phase, really? I know I had one that spanned from late elementary school into sophomore year of high school.
There isn't much more to this one, either. It just shows flashbacks to explain how Millie came to be in the animatronic bear's clutches and the problems which led to her emotional low, interspersed with the 'present time' wherein she's being forced to choose a method of death. I think it's trying to be profound, but it very much isn't.
In fact, the voice taunting Millie sounds more like a deranged, adult man than... well, a sentiment animatronic bear. He has the kind of knowledge only a human should and taunts her in a very human-sounding way. Maybe I'm just missing something from the lore and it's a demon or other humanoid spirit, but I can't imagine if I were watching Markiplier sit there while one of the game characters gave long-winded monologues about how the player character deserved to die. It would not be fun to watch, just as this was not fun to read.
If the obnoxious demon-bear Jigsaw stand-in were removed and this were a story about a teenage girl coming to terms with life and realizing she wanted to live and treat others better, I'd have enjoyed it. Grandpa is a delight and Dylan is a great character. Millie, while flawed, feels realistic and likable due to the empathy she inspires. But nope, gotta have the awkward FNAF angle...
... and an infuriatingly open-ended conclusion.
Untitled Epilogue - ★☆☆☆☆
A brief, overly dense, and boring foray into what appears to be setting up the next book. It details a detective being handed what amounts to an X-File case over the strange demise of Sarah from story two. Also, his family life sucks, apparently.
Nothing more to say about this one.
Overall ★★★☆☆
These stories feel very much like middlegrade writing, as I've already mentioned, but I cannot fathom handing this book to a child between 11 and 14 years of age - especially if they're a girl. It's uncomfortable that I can relate to having been like both of the female characters in this collection and they both get brutally murdered as twisted punishment for being like me. How will actual kids who read this feel, especially when they see themselves in Sarah or Millie?
I'm not saying that horror which makes readers uncomfortable is inherently bad. I'm just saying: the implied target audience based on the writing style is too young for this content. But, hey, if a kid is already into FNAF, perhaps they're used to stuff like this. Who knows?
While glad this was a quick read, I also am very glad to be through with it. I highly doubt I'll read any more of the books in this series.
February 3, 2023
Going into this book, I just expected the usual “oh no an animatronic is on a killing spree!” But it was so much more than that.
Spoilers!
For into the pit, I had been spoiled on the ending, but the level of detail put into the book is absolutely incredible. I didn’t expect the twist of spring bonnie taking the place of his dad and accidentally hanging himself at the end. 10/10
For to be beautiful, I had also been spoiled on, but the level of sadness I felt for Sarah was really unexpected. It was just absolutely incredible storytelling and the creepiness along with the level of suspense was fantastic. The last couple lines of the story nearly brought me to tears. (Maybe I’m thinking to much about it lol) 10/10
Now for count the ways, I had no idea what I was getting into. All I knew is that she got decapitated at the end. To find out that she’s an emo girl that longed for death was really shocking to me, especially with having a very loving family. However, the ending actually did bring me to tears. Again, the level of detail was amazing. 10/10
Last thing, I noticed that all the stories had a common theme. Being happy with what you have. These stories aren’t just little horror stories about animatronics. These are stories about people who want to be different, and learn the hard way to accept who they are and what they have. And that, in my opinion, is what makes this book incredible. Fantastic job Scott!
Spoilers!
For into the pit, I had been spoiled on the ending, but the level of detail put into the book is absolutely incredible. I didn’t expect the twist of spring bonnie taking the place of his dad and accidentally hanging himself at the end. 10/10
For to be beautiful, I had also been spoiled on, but the level of sadness I felt for Sarah was really unexpected. It was just absolutely incredible storytelling and the creepiness along with the level of suspense was fantastic. The last couple lines of the story nearly brought me to tears. (Maybe I’m thinking to much about it lol) 10/10
Now for count the ways, I had no idea what I was getting into. All I knew is that she got decapitated at the end. To find out that she’s an emo girl that longed for death was really shocking to me, especially with having a very loving family. However, the ending actually did bring me to tears. Again, the level of detail was amazing. 10/10
Last thing, I noticed that all the stories had a common theme. Being happy with what you have. These stories aren’t just little horror stories about animatronics. These are stories about people who want to be different, and learn the hard way to accept who they are and what they have. And that, in my opinion, is what makes this book incredible. Fantastic job Scott!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 26, 2022
I like how Oswalds, Sarah's, and Millie's wishes all have a twist to em
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June 30, 2025skończyła się sesja, więc wreszcie mogę się zająć prawdziwą literaturą 😌☝️
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April 21, 2020I've only read snippets of this book, which was read to me over the phone by one of my friends, but from what I've heard about the plot and the snippets I've been read, I feel the need to write a review; Don't get me wrong, I've actually heard the majority of the book word-for-word, but I'm sure there're a few things I'm missing here, which is why I won't actually be rating the book, in spirit of fairness.
I'm honestly astonished at how many of these reviews are positive. The book's writing is decent at best, and the plot seems fairly plain; I suppose a younger audience could definitely enjoy it, but I think you would have to be very young to find it scary.
The first story is alright, if you can get past a few plot-holes. It wasn't the best but, again, I could definitely see it being enjoyed by a young audience.
The worst part of this book, in my opinion, is how it handles the last two stories and the very real concerns present there. The second story follows a teen-girl who is constantly wishing she was prettier or more popular and shames her body-image almost every other sentence. The third story follows a teen-girl as well, only this one seems obsessed with the idea of death.
Both of these things are VERY REAL problems that people go through, but the story seems to handle these serious topics like a side-plot, and doesn't address them in a proper, realistic way; Instead the protagonists are treated like villains for having these thoughts, and (spoilers ahead) they both end up dying without this inner-conflict truly being resolved. It seems as though this might've been to appeal to an older audience, but it fails miserably and ends up being another cliche demonstration of very real-world problems.
Overall, the plot is written poorly and the characters are written even worse. The stories also seem to do this weird thing where they decide to //ACTUALLY INCLUDE ELEMENTS OF FNAF// near the very end of the story?? Which ironically feels tacked on, and seems to ruins the original set-up of the plot.
These are just my thoughts and if you genuinely enjoyed this book, that's awesome! I just had to get my opinion out there, seeing as most of these reviews are incredibly positive.
I'm honestly astonished at how many of these reviews are positive. The book's writing is decent at best, and the plot seems fairly plain; I suppose a younger audience could definitely enjoy it, but I think you would have to be very young to find it scary.
The first story is alright, if you can get past a few plot-holes. It wasn't the best but, again, I could definitely see it being enjoyed by a young audience.
The worst part of this book, in my opinion, is how it handles the last two stories and the very real concerns present there. The second story follows a teen-girl who is constantly wishing she was prettier or more popular and shames her body-image almost every other sentence. The third story follows a teen-girl as well, only this one seems obsessed with the idea of death.
Both of these things are VERY REAL problems that people go through, but the story seems to handle these serious topics like a side-plot, and doesn't address them in a proper, realistic way; Instead the protagonists are treated like villains for having these thoughts, and (spoilers ahead) they both end up dying without this inner-conflict truly being resolved. It seems as though this might've been to appeal to an older audience, but it fails miserably and ends up being another cliche demonstration of very real-world problems.
Overall, the plot is written poorly and the characters are written even worse. The stories also seem to do this weird thing where they decide to //ACTUALLY INCLUDE ELEMENTS OF FNAF// near the very end of the story?? Which ironically feels tacked on, and seems to ruins the original set-up of the plot.
These are just my thoughts and if you genuinely enjoyed this book, that's awesome! I just had to get my opinion out there, seeing as most of these reviews are incredibly positive.
December 18, 2023
szczena na podlodze
March 28, 2025
It was really good. Some stories connected with each other and I enjoyed discovered new secrets from fnaf world😌. (P. S. This stories have many interesting plot twists and my fav is “into the pit”.
February 26, 2021
3.5
That was actually better than I expected tbh (even tho I’ve heard that these are better than the main saga, the opinions about the saga are so abismal that I was kinda scared, but I was actually pleasantly surprised). It kinda felt like reading Goosebumps again, I can see these books becoming big in the middle grade horror genre.
Into the pit (3 stars)
This was the one that felt very fnafy. It connected well with the lore of the games (the whole afton getting into the bunny suit and being creepy) but was it’s own story at the same time. Not bad, but not the best either (and also the whole time traveling ball pit was kinda hilarious, and I would have liked it if the kid he befriends in the past was his father, although he might have been a victim maybe?)
To be beautiful (3.5 stars)
This one was... kinda better?? But it also really showed that it was written by a man. Idk, the whole self-negative thinking about being ugly was putting me off a bit, and it ended up being such a sad story in the end. Idk, kinda confused about how I feel about this story.
Count the ways (3.5 stars)
This one was the saddest one by far. The ending was so heartbreaking (no spoilers, I promise). But I kinda didn’t like the whole girls judging other girls just because they like being pretty (I guess we’re back at the whole I’m not like the other girls trope huh?) Its the kind of negativity we don’t need to keep in seeing in media (again, it really felt like it was written by a man, especially when you think about the difference in themes in Into the pit vs the other two stories, it makes you think, doesn’t it?).
That was actually better than I expected tbh (even tho I’ve heard that these are better than the main saga, the opinions about the saga are so abismal that I was kinda scared, but I was actually pleasantly surprised). It kinda felt like reading Goosebumps again, I can see these books becoming big in the middle grade horror genre.
Into the pit (3 stars)
This was the one that felt very fnafy. It connected well with the lore of the games (the whole afton getting into the bunny suit and being creepy) but was it’s own story at the same time. Not bad, but not the best either (and also the whole time traveling ball pit was kinda hilarious, and I would have liked it if the kid he befriends in the past was his father, although he might have been a victim maybe?)
To be beautiful (3.5 stars)
This one was... kinda better?? But it also really showed that it was written by a man. Idk, the whole self-negative thinking about being ugly was putting me off a bit, and it ended up being such a sad story in the end. Idk, kinda confused about how I feel about this story.
Count the ways (3.5 stars)
This one was the saddest one by far. The ending was so heartbreaking (no spoilers, I promise). But I kinda didn’t like the whole girls judging other girls just because they like being pretty (I guess we’re back at the whole I’m not like the other girls trope huh?) Its the kind of negativity we don’t need to keep in seeing in media (again, it really felt like it was written by a man, especially when you think about the difference in themes in Into the pit vs the other two stories, it makes you think, doesn’t it?).
January 27, 2024
2.5/5⭐️
On the one hand, it was interesting to see how Scott Cawthon and Elley Cooper managed to include the familiar FNAF animatronics in modern settings. The time travel into the 80s within the first short story was also fun!
Even though I’ve heard the books are not included in the game’s lore, they still seem to be cool additions for people craving more content (aka me).
However, I read in another review that the stories with the female protagonists were overly negative towards them and I have to agree with that. While I do understand the messages - that there is things more important than appearance and that life should be enjoyed - the protagonists were still teenage girls and can you blame them this much for giving into societal pressure or having a twisted mindset at 14? Is that really something that deserves the death penalty?
Furthermore, they were both written in a painfully stereotypical manner. As a baby bat, reading about Millie was truly something. It was not so enjoyable to see goth people represented as suicidal social rejects once again. And reading about her death after she had just started to realize how amazing life can be felt just plainly wrong.
So I don’t quite know what to think about this book. But the follow ups still seem really promising and I’m excited to find out which other FNAF characters make a comeback in them. Let’s see how the rest of the series continues!
On the one hand, it was interesting to see how Scott Cawthon and Elley Cooper managed to include the familiar FNAF animatronics in modern settings. The time travel into the 80s within the first short story was also fun!
Even though I’ve heard the books are not included in the game’s lore, they still seem to be cool additions for people craving more content (aka me).
However, I read in another review that the stories with the female protagonists were overly negative towards them and I have to agree with that. While I do understand the messages - that there is things more important than appearance and that life should be enjoyed - the protagonists were still teenage girls and can you blame them this much for giving into societal pressure or having a twisted mindset at 14? Is that really something that deserves the death penalty?
Furthermore, they were both written in a painfully stereotypical manner. As a baby bat, reading about Millie was truly something. It was not so enjoyable to see goth people represented as suicidal social rejects once again. And reading about her death after she had just started to realize how amazing life can be felt just plainly wrong.
So I don’t quite know what to think about this book. But the follow ups still seem really promising and I’m excited to find out which other FNAF characters make a comeback in them. Let’s see how the rest of the series continues!
March 3, 2020
The first story was interesting, but the others were garbage. They had literally nothing to do with the FNAF world and could have easily been for a different, unrelated story. The writing of the last two stories were awful and I only kept reading to see if they would be tied back into the FNAF world. I was super disappointed with these and would not recommend if you're interested in the story of FNAF.
September 27, 2021
chilling 3 story novel!
December 2, 2023
Spooky
February 15, 2024
Joa, ich weiß ja nicht. Es handelt sich um drei Kurzgeschichten mit jeweils drei verschiedenen Kindern. Alle drei haben typische Teenager Alltagsprobleme und versuchen damit fertig zu werden. Doch bei allen drei kommt es zu einem Ereignis, welches mit einem Animaltronic zusammenhängt, was ihr Leben komplett verändern wird.
Ich bin ganz ehrlich, ich fand das Buch noch nicht mal zwingend schlecht. Aber zum einen sind die Bücher definitiv auf eine jüngeres Publikum ausgerichtet, vermutlich junge Teenager. Und zum anderen sind die drei Kurzgeschichten relativ belangslos und irgendwie...seltsam. Das komplette Fnaf Universum war noch nie besonders logisch, hat es aber geschafft die Dinge zu erklären. Aber zwei von den dreien Handlung machen irgendwie keinen Sinn und verwirren mich nur maßlos. Ich hatte auch gehofft, dass die Geschichten am Ende irgendwie am Ende auseinandertreffen und sich so ein Bild ergibt, aber Fehlanzeige. Das "Five Nights at Freddys" auf dem Buch steht dor auch nur für Verkaufszwecke. Es könnten auch random Horrorgeschichten für Kinder sein und keinen würde den Unterschied bemerken, bis auf das Aussehen der Animaltronics.
Gesamt war es wohl "okay", aber nichts was ich zwingend weiterempfehlen würde. Auch nich an Fans der Spielereihe.
Ich bin ganz ehrlich, ich fand das Buch noch nicht mal zwingend schlecht. Aber zum einen sind die Bücher definitiv auf eine jüngeres Publikum ausgerichtet, vermutlich junge Teenager. Und zum anderen sind die drei Kurzgeschichten relativ belangslos und irgendwie...seltsam. Das komplette Fnaf Universum war noch nie besonders logisch, hat es aber geschafft die Dinge zu erklären. Aber zwei von den dreien Handlung machen irgendwie keinen Sinn und verwirren mich nur maßlos. Ich hatte auch gehofft, dass die Geschichten am Ende irgendwie am Ende auseinandertreffen und sich so ein Bild ergibt, aber Fehlanzeige. Das "Five Nights at Freddys" auf dem Buch steht dor auch nur für Verkaufszwecke. Es könnten auch random Horrorgeschichten für Kinder sein und keinen würde den Unterschied bemerken, bis auf das Aussehen der Animaltronics.
Gesamt war es wohl "okay", aber nichts was ich zwingend weiterempfehlen würde. Auch nich an Fans der Spielereihe.
August 14, 2024
↳ 𝟏 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓
↳ dnf @ 33%
i read this just for the sake of the first novella. now that that's done, i can peacefully dnf 😌 goodbye and good riddance 😤 praying the game is good 😖
↳ dnf @ 33%
i read this just for the sake of the first novella. now that that's done, i can peacefully dnf 😌 goodbye and good riddance 😤 praying the game is good 😖
August 22, 2020
This was more of a palette cleanser after reading a bloated romance novel and it was literally something i punched out in a day.
The question is, was it good? Well....it was...okay?
So this book is really 3 mini stories in one and they kinda read like goosebump stories. Although at times, it definitely gets a bit dark for a Y novel. The first story ends happily. the second does not and the third is left purposely ambiguous. so like... 1 1/2 happy 1 1/2 sad?
It's impossible to review it as one, as its three stories, so i'll go per story
Story one is about a kid who is grumpy that his parents are poor. he time travels through a ballpit in a pizza place to the 1980's (As you do) and meets up with what i ASSUME is springtrap and has to escape from him and save his dad. All in all, this was definitely the best of the 3 although the main character took the fact that he time traveled quite easily. He treated time travel basically like he found an extra cookie in his lunch. kind of like an "oh. i time traveled. neat" There was some exciting action, although i wasn't a fan of how adult the 5th grader sounded and acted. he sounded like he was at LEAST freshman in high school and made him sound older beyond his years. not a fan of that. overall though, i enjoyed this one the most with a 3.5/5 rounded up to a 4.
Story 2's story has been done to death. it's basically a monkey's paw cautionary tale of "be careful what you wish for" girl rescues an animatronic from the dump which i ASSUME is like a svelt, pretty version of circus baby. girl doesn't like her body and wishes for a better body. throughout the story she gets prettier and prettier thanks to eleanor (the animatronic). She gets more an more shallow and ditches her old friend and then eventually she becomes animatronic pieces and dies, as eleanor betrayed her. The end. This actually caught me off guard as the first story ended with a happy ending so i assumed this one would too. Nope. Girl who wants to be pretty dies a stupid ridiculous death. This one was boring as it was just about her whinging about wanting to be pretty, becoming a jerk, then dying. I guess the moral's supposed to be "Be happy with who you are" but it's such a slap in the face of "HEY! HERE'S THE MORAL!" that it's kind of insulting, even to people of this age range that the book is made for. 2/5
The final story is about a goth girl who, being obsessed with death ends up in the stomach cavity of who i ASSUME to be fun time freddy from the way they described him. They keep flipping between the present and the past of the goth girl being a jerk to is quite possibly the nicest grandpa in the world (like seriously i wish my grandpa had been this nice). Actually, i'm going to pause this review a minute to talk about this grandpa. he volunteers to take her in after her parents go to saudia arabia, he cares about her, is concerned when he sees her upset, tries to talk to her about her problems, offers to take her places, when he learns she's a vegetarian IMMEDIATELY changes what he cooks to make her happy, brings her cookies and does basically everything he can to make her happy. And the girl (millie) is such a jerk to him it actually got me a bit mad.
Okay, mini-rant over. So yeah, a boy at school talks to her but then she finds out he has a girlfriend and wants to die.
So this whole time the animatronic has been offering her ways to die while inside him which is REALLY disturbing for a kids book. She admits she doesn't really want to die and has just been saying it because she was sad. She eventually chooses decapitation as she tries to use this as a chance to escape by ducking down low and escaping right after. we don't find out what happens though because after the blade comes through the story ends. so it's left ambiguous. which is kind of annoying.
This was definitely the most morbid out of the 3 and the least pleasant to have to read. It wasn't BAD, just depressing and annoying at times. I give it the same score as story 2. a 2/5. The girl was annoying, the ending didn't really exist, and it was just unpleasant to read at times.
Then there's 5 pages of a cop reading over a report about there being a guy in a mask as Sarah (girl from book 2) is missing. Didn't really care.
All in all, it was all right. It honestly seemed like an attempt to do a goosebumps like mini anthology, just a tad darker at times. It really isn't super FNAF relevant perSAY, but some of the characters are there. If you're looking for lore, this is not the place to find it. if you're looking for a quick read where kids are in peril....i mean, this definitely fits that qualification in spades. when it all boils down it, i give it a 2.5/5 rounded up to a 3.
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October 15, 2023
Von der ersten Geschichte war ich ein bisschen enttäuscht, die Zweite fand ich sehr gut und die Dritte war richtig heftig.
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