Monster Blood III

Goosebumps #29

by R.L. Stine

Scholastic
Date of 1996
soft back

Very Good
0590135112 NUMBER 27

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

144 pages, Unknown Binding

First published March 1, 1995

About the author

Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series.

R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.

Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.

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Reviews

[✨Bean's Books✨ · Rating 4 out of 5]

#29 "Evan's growing up way too fast!"
Evan is back again with another terrifying Monster Blood adventure. This time he's babysitting his little cousin Kermit who happens to love experimenting with chemicals. He's also a very bratty child and likes to play jokes on Evan and his friend Andy. But Andy wants to get back at Kermit. She happened to find a container of monster blood that she plans on slipping into one of his mixtures. Everything's all fun and games until somebody swallows the Monster Blood!

[Carmen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Andy stood beside Kermit. Evan saw the blue container of Monster Blood in her hand. Just seeing the can made Evan shiver.

So many bad memories. So many nightmares.

The green gunk inside the can was so dangerous.

Ugh, this book was terrible. What did I expect? Monster Blood is one of Stine's weakest Goosebumps subsets. Andy and Evan are back! Evan is still getting the shit beat out of him. Andy and Evan are still exchanging barbs and are very close friends. Their friendship is one of the only things I like in this subset.

R.L. Stine creates another horrendous brat, reminiscent of Tara from The Cuckoo Clock of Doom. This time it's Kermit - an 8-year-old brat who's obsessed with chemistry and making potions. He's such a jerk - he lies to his parents while blaming Evan, he gets Evan beat up on purpose, he tricks Andy and Evan into drinking potions that mess them up, and he deliberately messes up Andy's homework when she asks him to help her.

In short, he's a total asshole.

I know this is a kid's book, but I can't understand how these little brats don't get the snot smacked out of them. Where I grew up, you couldn't be this kind of jerk without getting put in your place (Kermit is small and tiny - not some bulked up bully with back up). He takes deliberate cruel delight in fucking up everyone's lives, for no apparent reason.

Also, Stine's grownups are always seriously out of it. I know that this is because these are kid-centered books, but really - they're idiots. The grownups in this book worship Kevin and call him genius and never listen to the other kids when they try to tell the adults that Kermit is a total shit. This is unrealistic to the point of stupidity.

The plot of this book is pretty dumb, too. Even though Evan and Andy have quite a bad history with Monster Blood - Evan still has nightmares about it - they never lose their willingness to bust out a can when things get rough... or boring. This is mainly Andy's doing - she thinks Monster Blood is fun and she is more of a risk-taker than Evan. But Evan always fights her for a while, then ends up giving in. The results are always disastrous.

In this book, they use Monster Blood to try and get well-deserved revenge on Kermit. But it backfires when Evan accidentally swallows some and starts growing at an exponential rate.

Don't panic! he instructed himself.

The first rule is - don't panic.

But why shouldn't he panic?

LOL I can see someone's been reading his copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!

This just degenerates into him getting revenge on the local bully, playing baseball, and getting kites out of trees. LAME!

By the way, the ending is terrible and stupid.

P.S. The dog is named "Dogface"! What a great name for a dog, LOL.

[Ken · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really liked the first Monster Blood book, but with each sequel I get a really sense of diminishing returns.
This is probably one of my least favourite Goosebumps books in the whole series.

Evan has to look after he’s annoying cousin Kermit, again we get the typical Goosebumps trope of bratty younger relative...
Evan and Andy decided to trick him with Monster Blood.
You’d think after two previous misadventures with the stuff Evan and Andy would stay clear of it.

It really does feel like Stine phoning this one in, I can understand that he wants to reuse some of the popular elements of the series but this one just seems utterly pointless.
Thankfully there’s not too many clunkers in the series!

[Tyler Gray · Rating 4 out of 5]

That actually had me scared for Evan and loved the twist ending! Kermit, omg, i've never hated a child so badly!

[Heather · Rating 1 out of 5]

I know. I’m a terrible person for giving a Goosebumps book a 1-star rating but ENOUGH WITH THE MONSTER BLOOD.

[Gavin Hetherington · Rating 2 out of 5]

I spent a month re-reading all 62 original Goosebumps books to see if they still hold up today, you can check out my 3.5 hour vlog here: https://youtu.be/2C73xc1FS5o

You can also check out my entire ranking of the original Goosebumps books from worst to best here: https://youtu.be/lBfaxCOwAnA

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one was fun! We didn’t read it in order with the other Monster Bloods but it was easy enough to follow. There were some really fun moments in the climax that made us laugh.

[David Santos · Rating 5 out of 5]

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Have I mentioned how much I love the Andy character? I don't know why I like the girls more in every book. Either RL is a good writer or I've been single waaay too long! The cover art is misleading, because Evan doesn't grow THAT much, but still grows big enough to make it a fun read. Kermit is his cousin a new character introduced into the 4 part series. If he were my cousin I'd lock him in the attic with all the spiders and rats. On a side note, I would never name my son Kermit unless he looked like a frog. Anyways the book started off slow. You'd think they'd pick up where Monsters Blood II left off, but no, they started with a whole new plot. Still a fun read. Not scary at all really, could pas sof as suspenseful. This book was written in third person, which I dislike alot.

[Γιώτα Παπαδημακοπούλου · Rating 2 out of 5]

Θα μπορούσα να έχω βάλει και ένα αστεράκι στο συγκεκριμένο βιβλίο, αλλά είπα να το παίξω καλός άνθρωπος. Δεν καταλαβαίνω γιατί ο Stine έχει τέτοια εμμονή με το "Monster Blood", ούτε γιατί πρέπει να μας τρίψει στη μούρη 158.000 sequel μιας ιστορίας που ακόμα και στην αρχική της μορφή είχε θέματα. Οι γνωστοί χαρακτήρες επιστρέφουν, χωρίς να έχουν καμία εξέλιξη, το ίδιο concept στο όλο story επίσης επιστρέφει, χωρίς να έχει να μας προσφέρει τίποτα το καινούργιο, κι εμείς απλά βαριόμαστε.

[Glenn Smith · Rating 1 out of 5]

Currently rereading my original Goosebumps collection

After two of these books Evan and Andy still haven't learnt their lesson. I thought this book was terrible. There were so many inconsistentencies and plot holes. The major one being why on earth would they use the Monster Blood again? These Monster Blood books just get worse and worse.

Read from October 4, 2013 - October 4, 2013

[Billie Pritchett · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hey, Evan. You don't like your cousin Kermit who looks like a mouse but who is named Kermit. To get back at him, why don't you put some Monster Blood in one of his science experiments? You know, as a prank. Sure, we both know that this Monster Blood is capable of swallowing people whole and we basically ruined the school last time but, hey, why don't we try it again?

[Ryan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Monster Blood III by R. L. Stine is Goosebumps book 29 in the original series order. Evan and Andy are back as well as bully Conan Barber. Monster Blood is my least favorite of the recurring Goosebumps stories and number 3 is the worst of this series. The story is not very scary and pretty joke filled, with only a couple being funny. It has to really annoying characters with Kermit and Conan. The moral of the story is fear science. Monster Blood doesn't enter into the story until after halfway. The back half was better than the front half but one of the worst front halves of a story so far. The cover of the book is good and we finally see that happen in the story towards the end. The climax to the story was good with a race against time to change them from being big. The story is half the Disney film Honey, I Blew Up The Kids! and Danny the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff( there is no dinosaur but they have almost the same adventure) one of the I Can Read Books. The twist at the very end was pretty good and fits the theme of nothing goes right with science.

Plot Summary: Evan and Andy are back for another adventure with Monster Blood, in the last book Andy parents coming home from Europe bring her a can of monster blood after the one they had was expired and losing it potency. Evan babysits Kermit his 8 year-old science obsessed cousin who spends his time preforming experiments while his mother gets home from work. Evan babysits Kermit even though he hates because he's saving up for a Walkman (so 90's). Kermit lives next door to Conan, Evan's bully in school. Kermit is the worst he gets Evan beat up, gets him in trouble twice with his experiments gone wrong. After Andy come over and gets pranked by him suggest what if we put the Monster Blood in one of his experiments. What could go wrong?

What I Liked: The prank where one of the kids turns into a giant and they prank them that they crushed one of the fellow kids is pretty brutal. I loved the Police asking if the giant was an alien. The finale was pretty intense if the situation can get fixed in time. The final twist was good and fit really well with the story. I do like how it filled you in with some of what happened in the 2 Monster Blood's before it.

What I Disliked: The heart of the Monster Blood series has always been Evan and Andy friendship and it just wasn't there in this story. Kermit and Conan together are too annoying. No Monster Blood for the first 65 pages of the book. The story is paced so slow at the beginning and continues to the middle of the book.

Recommendation: Monster Blood is the worst, all it has going for it is the cool title. Skip this book it is pretty horrible, not scary, and really badly paced. I rated Monster Blood III by R. L. Stine 2 out of 5 stars. Here's my full ranking of the 29 Goosebumps books that I have read in order to my favorite to least favorite: 1) A Night in Terror Tower, 2) Stay Out of the Basement, 3) Ghost Beach, 4) Piano Lessons Can Be Murder, 5) The Haunted Mask, 6) One Day At Horrorland, 7) Night of the Living Dummy, 8) Welcome to Camp Nightmare, 9) The Phantom of the Auditorium, 10) The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, 11) Say Cheese and Die, 12) Let's Get Invisible, 13) The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight, 14) Welcome to Dead House, 15) Monster Blood II, 16) The Girl who Cried Monster, 17)Deep Trouble, 18) The Ghost Next Door, 19) My Hairiest Adventure, 20) Be Careful What You Wish For... , 21) Return of the Mummy, 22) Why I'm Afraid of Bees, 23)Attack of the Mutant, 24) Go Eat Worms!, 25) The Werewolf of Fever Swamp, 26) Cuckoo Clock of Doom, 27) Monster Blood, 28) You Can't Scare Me! and 29) Monster Blood III.

[Grim Rainbow (Leslye) · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was dreading reading a THIRD Monster Blood after my struggle with the first two, but I actually didn't mind this one. Was it a carbon copy of the same issues as these kids are having in the first two? Yes. Why they don't seem to learn their lesson, I don't know. But it was still entertaining enough. Kermit was a little brat, but it worked for the story. So, if you find Monster Blood entertaining enough, maybe give this third installment a try. I actually prefer it over the first two, honestly.

[A · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not much to say other than what a great name for a dog...Dogface!

[Bob Gray · Rating 2 out of 5]

Que alguien le pegue un collejon a Kermit. Vaya saga penca

[Connie · Rating 3 out of 5]

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Title: Monster Blood III
Series: Goosebumps #29
Author: RL Stine
Overall Rating: 3 stars

When Evan's genius cousin begins to start bothering him with his freaky experiments and his anti-social behaviour, Andy suggests something that will stop Kermit in his tracks and make him wish he'd never bothered Evan in the first place...But as we all know, the green slime of Monster Blood doesn't exactly always go to plan.

You would think they would've learned by now, don't miss with Monster Blood, how are there 4 books of them being stupid enough to play with it? Especially Andy, it's always Andy's fault. If I was Evan, I'd just stop being her friend.

Also, why is so normal for people to accept dogs finding bones? Like...Did you think of where that bone came from?

[Jesse Salcido · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story is about a sticky, gooey, and slimy stuff that will continously grow and grow and will gobble up things whole. The characters in the story are a boy named Evan and girl named Andy. He has to take of his little cousin Kermit, and what he does is experiments when Evan messed with one of Kermit's experments it caused Evan's life because once the stuff grew and grew,and popped, but some of the stuff landed in his mouth casing him to grow. Now once people are starting to see him they think he is an alien. Now everyone is starting to chase him. When Kermit and Andy found him. Kermit has a blue bottle of stuff that will cure him. Once that everything was back to normal Evan was lyding but just noticed his bed was slight larger than him. HE WAS SHRINKING INTO THE SIZE OF A MOUSE!

[Lyly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Evan, a boy, hates baby-sitting. He hates it when the person he baby-sits is his cousin,Kermit. Kermit is a smart kid. But even though he is a smart kid, he is not like the other kids. Kermit doesn't like to do anything. He doesn't like to play games. He even won't play frisbee. All Kermit ever do is stay in his basement doing experiments and always play jokes on Evan and his friend Andy. But one day, Andy finds something that he thinks that will teach Kermit a lesson. It was a can that was marked MONSTER BLOOD.!

[Drucilla · Rating 2 out of 5]

I like that the same characters are carried over and that an actual person is the one to ingest the monster blood this time around, but the climax is ridiculous. There's also no resolution in regards to Kermit.

[Brittany Perry · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this topic has been about killed with Mr.Stine however, I found that I liked seeing the usual characters back in action. I have to say though that brat in the book was what caught my attention. He was just so despisable. He was what really gave the book some flair.

[Catastrophe Queen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I honestly wanted to slap Kermit for being a spoiled brat. Being smart does not give you permission to bully others.

[Kenneth Marquez · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would recommend this book t everyone.It starts whit the same character as the first and second monster blood.The boy eats the monster blood and he gets bigger.

[Chris Greensmith · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Evans growing up way to fast!"

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

Who would name a poor defenseless dog “Dogface”?

[Alejandro Joseph · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very refreshing and fun read that is ultimately not that great. I will say that it was nice reading a very simple story after a lot of dumb and complex GB stories as of late, and the writing just felt really nice here too. Evan is really exceptional here and Andy is fun too, but Kermit drags down the story but at least sets the plot into motion (Kermit is annoying as all mighty hell and is a little bitch). The monster blood is not overused this time around which is good I guess. The book is fun and adventurous even in the second half, but the final 10 pages are just filler to reach the 120 mark. The ending is just bad. There is also a notable lack in creativity, but simple is a bit better I feel in this case. Also, undeserved Evan torture for a majority of the first half. I feel the positives out weight the negatives a little and I do feel this is a very fun book even though and I’d give it a 7/10. The score might go down upon rereading 1, 2, and 4 though.

[Maxim Avery · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a quick easy read. It was enjoyable because it had suspense and drama. My least favorite character was definitely Kermit. He was so annoying. Always causing trouble and drove Even and Andy to use the monster blood. I enjoyed Andy because she always teased Evan but never made him mad. It had good character development because Evan realized how being a giant was very detrimental to his health. I would recommend this book. It is enjoyable to read and entertaining. I'm not a very big fan books anymore but this is a good book.

[Brandon Meacham · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't know why while I was reading this, I kept reading Kermit's name as "Kevin" 😂 possibly my brain was speed reading and Kermit and Evan names combined to create Kevin.

Kermit started as an annoying pest that just wanted to get Evan Into trouble, by the end he did become helpful.
Like I said these monster blood books don't really do anything for me. I don't find them scary or funny or charming..they're just kind of there.
And there's three more of these books in the goosebumps catalog. (Although monster blood for breakfast isn't that bad).

[itchy · Rating 2 out of 5]

p54: "do you know what elephants do to mice?" he bellowed. evan raised one foot and brought it down with a crunching thud to demonstrate to kermit what elephants do to mice.

[Shahna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Doing a read through of all the original Goosebump books this fall.


Why do they keep messing with the monster blood?!?!?!

[Elizabeth Mellen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I just can’t stand Monster Blood, I don’t get why it gets so many sequels 😂😂