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Horror Heights: Now LiveScreaming: Book 2 - Horror Heights
Welcome to Horror Heights: can the children who live here conceal the strange goings on behind closed doors? Book two in the creeptastic series.
Ryan's favourite hobby is watching influencer's videos online. One day Ryan posts a comment underneath a video of his favourite influencer, Grimmf, and is delighted when Grimmf video calls him. Grimmf asks Ryan wants to swap lives with him - all Ryan has to do is repeat "yes" three times. It's a no brainer! On the third yes, Ryan is pulled into the laptop.
Ryan is thrilled. He watches his Grimmf doing his chores in his bedroom, while he gets to have fun being an influencer! When lots of followers stream his channel Ryan asks for anything he likes and it appears. Time flies when you're having fun.
But by night time, Ryan is exhausted by having to be "on" all the time. When he asks Grimmf if they can swap back, Grimmf laughs and cuts off the connection. As Ryan loses followers, his food supply runs low. There appears to be no way out. Unless he can get someone to swap with him ...
Can Ryan find a way back home, or will he be stuck on screen forever?
GOOSEBUMPS for a new generation, by CITV presenter, Bec Hill. Perfect for readers aged 8 and up - are you brave enough to discover the scares behind every door at Horror Heights?
Ryan's favourite hobby is watching influencer's videos online. One day Ryan posts a comment underneath a video of his favourite influencer, Grimmf, and is delighted when Grimmf video calls him. Grimmf asks Ryan wants to swap lives with him - all Ryan has to do is repeat "yes" three times. It's a no brainer! On the third yes, Ryan is pulled into the laptop.
Ryan is thrilled. He watches his Grimmf doing his chores in his bedroom, while he gets to have fun being an influencer! When lots of followers stream his channel Ryan asks for anything he likes and it appears. Time flies when you're having fun.
But by night time, Ryan is exhausted by having to be "on" all the time. When he asks Grimmf if they can swap back, Grimmf laughs and cuts off the connection. As Ryan loses followers, his food supply runs low. There appears to be no way out. Unless he can get someone to swap with him ...
Can Ryan find a way back home, or will he be stuck on screen forever?
GOOSEBUMPS for a new generation, by CITV presenter, Bec Hill. Perfect for readers aged 8 and up - are you brave enough to discover the scares behind every door at Horror Heights?
192 pages, Paperback
Published April 28, 2022
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July 10, 2022
Modern horror story for kids. Cleverly uses video streamers as the plot device rather than vampires etc that has already been done. Has a good moral lesson that real family and friends are more important than internet followers. And to pay attention to the footpath.
One thing is an influencer horror story should have had a werewolf who wanted people to Lycan Subscribe.
Suitable for 9+ year olds.
One thing is an influencer horror story should have had a werewolf who wanted people to Lycan Subscribe.
Suitable for 9+ year olds.
September 28, 2022
TW: insect horror
A seriously underrated successor to the Goosebumps of yore. Humour, frights and great messages that never talk down to kids and are frightfully fun to read.
A seriously underrated successor to the Goosebumps of yore. Humour, frights and great messages that never talk down to kids and are frightfully fun to read.
February 27, 2023
The sophomore entry to this series proves the first was no fluke in being a slow-burning yet highly dramatic read for the primary school audience. It also proves we're in the same world as the first one, in the same classroom where the same homework is being set by the same teacher, no less. But all thoughts of mutant slime monsters are out the window, as we concentrate on Ryan, a kid who is determined to become a star of live-streamed video content. Unfortunately it alienates his best friend, narks his older sister – and if he doesn't do what his audience demands, his impact is still zero. So how is this going to twist into one of those 'be careful what you wish for' horror stories…?
Here once again is the toilet humour, albeit it a bit more junior-level gross-out than before. Here is the page-turning story, sucking you gently into the plot long before it gets to the true horror of the situation. Here is the moral writ a bit larger than the first book, which tacked on a 'nasty teachers are humans too' element and just went for the entertainment. What we are lacking is the dyslexia-friendly badge on my copy, and for obvious reasons. There is so much pronoun mangling going on at times it's an obvious admission that readability has been sacrificed for wokeness. And I'm duty bound to knock off a star whenever that happens. Which is a pity, as this series, even if it might take yonks to see all thirteen dramas seemingly planned, is commendably for a broad audience and more than capable of satisfying them.
Here once again is the toilet humour, albeit it a bit more junior-level gross-out than before. Here is the page-turning story, sucking you gently into the plot long before it gets to the true horror of the situation. Here is the moral writ a bit larger than the first book, which tacked on a 'nasty teachers are humans too' element and just went for the entertainment. What we are lacking is the dyslexia-friendly badge on my copy, and for obvious reasons. There is so much pronoun mangling going on at times it's an obvious admission that readability has been sacrificed for wokeness. And I'm duty bound to knock off a star whenever that happens. Which is a pity, as this series, even if it might take yonks to see all thirteen dramas seemingly planned, is commendably for a broad audience and more than capable of satisfying them.
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