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Becka scheint sich gut einzuleben an der Waynesbridge Highschool. Sie findet schnell eine Freundin und kommt auch wieder mit ihrem Exfreund Eric zusammen. Doch ihr Glück währt nicht lange: Beckas teuflische Freundin Honey ist aus der Psychiatrie entflohen - und schon auf dem Weg zu ihr...
Becka scheint sich gut einzuleben an der Waynesbridge Highschool. Sie findet schnell eine Freundin und kommt auch wieder mit ihrem Exfreund Eric zusammen. Doch ihr Glück währt nicht lange: Beckas teuflische Freundin Honey ist aus der Psychiatrie entflohen - und schon auf dem Weg zu ihr...
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First published January 1, 1997
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R.L. Stine
1,680 books18.7k followersRobert 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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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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March 11, 2025
Dumb.
A completely obligatory sequel that's the result of angry fanmail to R.L. Stine for the way he ended the first one. And the obligation shows. The way this one ended is even more unsatisfying, imo. Unnecessary for this book to exist - it also retcons the first one.
Not the worst thing I've read in Fear Street, but just plain dumb.
A completely obligatory sequel that's the result of angry fanmail to R.L. Stine for the way he ended the first one. And the obligation shows. The way this one ended is even more unsatisfying, imo. Unnecessary for this book to exist - it also retcons the first one.
Not the worst thing I've read in Fear Street, but just plain dumb.
August 9, 2012
Moral of the Story: If someone is stalking you, get a restraining order.
Body Count: 1, Eric
The Usual Suspect(s): Honey Perkins
Tagline: There isn't one!
Plot: I have not read the first book. As I've said, our library seems to have tons of Fear Street sequels but not the first in a series. That's kind of a bummer. Guess it doesn't matter anyway; most people HATED The Best Friend. In fact, that is why this book exists. RL Stine held a contest to see who could come up with the best answer to "What should happen to Honey Perkins?" Apparently some chick named Sara in Wisconsin had the winning entry, and thus this book was born. I guess the ending of the first one was very open (and nothing bad happened to evil Honey), but this one wasn't too infuriating, though I guess Honey could still come back at any time.
Our protagonist from the first book, Becka Norwood, is back. She is starting a new school one town over in Waynesbridge. There is a huge purple wad of gum on the Waynesbridge High sign. That image just really stuck with me. Becka's had to talk to counselors for the past year now, ever since the craziness with Honey. For those who didn't read the first one, it was a very Roommate (or Single White Female) type situation. Honey came into Becka's life announcing that they'd known each other forever. Becka had never seen her before. Honey moved next door, borrowed Becka's clothes, dated Becka's old boyfriends... until she tried to KILL Becka's friends and BECOME Becka. She even killed Becka's boyfriend, Bill, and blamed it on Becka. Becka doesn't want to relive all of this with her new guidance counselor, but she realizes she might as well get it over with.
So she recaps all of the above. Becka slides in late to History. She meets a beautiful, supermodel-looking girl named Glynis who offers to help her catch up on the notes she's missed for the past three weeks. Later on in the hall Becka meets Glynis's friend Frankie. She feels that there is an immediate attraction between them, but she isn't sure if Frankie feels the same way or if he is already dating Glynis. Frankie invites Becka to join them at a pizza joint after school, and Becka is overjoyed. Again with the pizza!!
First, she stops at Glynis's house to hang out. She is trying on some of Glynis's clothes and Glynis helps her pick out a cool outfit. Becka keeps the clothes when Glynis leaves the room, stating that best friends ALWAYS share with each other. Hmmmmmmm.
While out for pizza and Coke, Becka spots her former boyfriend Eric. Becka seems a bit unstable to me at this point. Very overeager. This is because as soon as she spots Eric she immediately ditches Frankie and Glynis and then goes out to Eric's car and apologizes for not keeping in touch and starts making out with him. She makes a date with him for later on in the week. THEN she leaves him abruptly. She is overwhelmed by what a great day it has been. She goes home to paint her fingernails. In the process she has an imaginary phone call with Frankie in which he professes his love for her and then she realizes that she has written "BILL" all over her face in nail polish. Seems that she really isn't recovered after all.
Later on at the mall she runs into Eric. She's pretty stoked to see him until he calls her Honey. This sends her into a fit of rage. She screams at him not to call her that, but Eric points behind her and shows that the REAL Becka is standing a foot away. DUN DUN DUN. Honey loses her shit and finds the nearest weapon, which happens to be a pair of beads. Instead of killing the actual Becka, she strangles Eric to death for daring to call her Honey. Wow. I'm impressed already!
Then we get to part 2 with the ACTUAL Becka attending Eric's funeral. Remember, Eric is the guy she dated before Bill. It turns out that Bill is alive. A humdinger, this book is. He was stabbed by Honey, but his lung was all that he lost. He's making it by fine on one lung. He tells Becka this after the funeral, but she isn't able to talk to him or look him in the eye. This really upsets Bill, who can't believe that she won't reconsider all they used to have. Becka has a new boyfriend now named Larry, but she treats him like shit throughout the whole book. Poor Larry. He's the Winston Egbert of this series.
Becka's best friends Lilah (Lila!) and Trish also lived through Honey's horrors. Apparently Becka never visited Trish in the hospital because she was so distraught and trying to recover from being blamed for what happened to Bill. Now that Becka knows Honey is on the loose again, she gets a restraining order.
No, I'm just kidding! She's not that smart!! She doesn't even really tell her parents or the police what is going on. The police ARE on the hunt for Honey, however. I kind of love her. She is the Margo Black of Fear Street. Instead of protecting herself from blatant evil, Becka asks her doctor, Dr. Perlberg, if she can have an increase in her medication. Yes, because THAT will stop the crazy.
The late-night phone calls start again, where Becka is constantly threatened. One night she finds the seats of her car slashed up with a dead rat gutted in the middle of the seat. Ugh! Every chapter's end, I kid you not, ends with the "shock" of Becka running into Honey.... except that it's never actually Honey she runs into. Surprised? I'm not. I've got these Fear Street down to a science over the past couple of days.
Right before Part 3 Becka receives another phone call in which Honey promises her "best friend" that she has something sharp and shiny for her. Becka is as crazy as Honey at this point. She is completely ignoring Larry and thinks that every single person is Honey. One day Becka thinks she sees something shiny like a knife behind her car. Before she can freak out, however, Honey jumps out and attacks her. She literally smashes Becka's face into the ground and tells her that SHE is Becka. She is Becka, goddamnit!! After having to receive stitches in the hospital, Becka finally tells her parents what's going on and her father calls the police.
For some reason, Becka decides she should go on a date with Larry. They go to a local restaurant. Predictably, Becka sees Honey coming towards her with a knife. Only it's not Honey - it's an auburn-haired waitress handing a steak knife to a customer. Becka flies off the deep end. She keeps screeching about how "she's crazy! she wants to kill me!" and the waitress is mortified because she thinks Becka is talking about her.
Larry drives her home and offers to keep her company, which would be a smart move, all things considered. Becka is a dumbass and insists that it's FINE for her to go into her house alone. Not only that, but she thinks it's okay to LEAVE ALL THE LIGHTS OFF as she goes upstairs. She just wants to crawl into bed and go to sleep. Tough luck, kid. Her bed is covered in blood, which she discovers when she FINALLY turns on the lights. There is a message smeared on her mirror that says "This is u." Becka starts screeching and raving again, and she collapses in her dad's arms. She spends the night in a cot in the basement, which would be even creepier to me.
The next night she receives another creepy call with Honey telling her that she's coming for her best friend right now. Becka decides to flee the house. She is greeted by Bill at the door who has come to talk AGAIN. The phone rings once more, and Becka decides to answer it. This time it's Lilah, but Becka has no time to listen to what she has to say. She leaves with Bill who promises to keep her safe at his father's condo (or somesuch) in Fear Street Woods. I am proud of myself, because I was immediately suspicious of Bill. CLEARLY something is up here.
They arrive at the condo, and it's just as Becka remembers it. The phone rings as soon as she gets there, and Becka is surprised. When she answers it's Lilah on the phone again. Lilah tells her that the police caught Honey a day or so after she beat Becka's face into the pavement. This means that all the blood and the creepy message in Becka's room were NOT the result of Honey's work. DUN DUN DUN.
I need to backtrack a minute and say that in the first book no backstory was given on Honey. She just claimed to know Becka and that was that. (At least, that's what I gather from other reviews.) In this one it is revealed that Becka DID know Honey when she was younger. Honey was Hannah, a girl whose entire family was shot and so she had to go live with her uncle. She wanted desperately to be Becka's friend back then. She wanted ANYBODY as a friend. She was very needy. Becka played a cruel trick on her and told her that if she barked onstage in front of the whole school that she could be part of the Cool Club for life. Yikes, Becka. After that, Becka never saw Hannah again. Until she became Honey, that is.
So now Becka is in a condo that suddenly doesn't feel so safe. Bill comes back from getting firewood and sneers at her to get off the phone. Out of the shadows comes Trish, Becka's supposed best friend. She was the mastermind behind Becka's bloodsoaked bedroom (alliteration!). See, she's holding a grudge because Becka never visited her or Bill in the hospital. Trish thinks that Becka is a very selfish friend, and now she has to pay. She pulls out a knife and stabs at Becka but ends up stabbing Bill instead. I hope she doesn't hit his other lung. That Bill has super rotten luck. Becka manages to twist the knife around and hold it up to Trish's throat, and she backs off. The police arrive on the scene, and Becka tries to stop Bill from bleeding out. She promises that she'll be a good friend to him this time.
The Actual Suspect(s): Honey, Trish, Bill
Gaping Plot Holes: In the beginning Honey has long, auburn hair. A few chapters later it is blonde. Her counselor acknowledges this, but it never says that she dyed it or anything.
Body Count: 1, Eric
The Usual Suspect(s): Honey Perkins
Tagline: There isn't one!
Plot: I have not read the first book. As I've said, our library seems to have tons of Fear Street sequels but not the first in a series. That's kind of a bummer. Guess it doesn't matter anyway; most people HATED The Best Friend. In fact, that is why this book exists. RL Stine held a contest to see who could come up with the best answer to "What should happen to Honey Perkins?" Apparently some chick named Sara in Wisconsin had the winning entry, and thus this book was born. I guess the ending of the first one was very open (and nothing bad happened to evil Honey), but this one wasn't too infuriating, though I guess Honey could still come back at any time.
Our protagonist from the first book, Becka Norwood, is back. She is starting a new school one town over in Waynesbridge. There is a huge purple wad of gum on the Waynesbridge High sign. That image just really stuck with me. Becka's had to talk to counselors for the past year now, ever since the craziness with Honey. For those who didn't read the first one, it was a very Roommate (or Single White Female) type situation. Honey came into Becka's life announcing that they'd known each other forever. Becka had never seen her before. Honey moved next door, borrowed Becka's clothes, dated Becka's old boyfriends... until she tried to KILL Becka's friends and BECOME Becka. She even killed Becka's boyfriend, Bill, and blamed it on Becka. Becka doesn't want to relive all of this with her new guidance counselor, but she realizes she might as well get it over with.
So she recaps all of the above. Becka slides in late to History. She meets a beautiful, supermodel-looking girl named Glynis who offers to help her catch up on the notes she's missed for the past three weeks. Later on in the hall Becka meets Glynis's friend Frankie. She feels that there is an immediate attraction between them, but she isn't sure if Frankie feels the same way or if he is already dating Glynis. Frankie invites Becka to join them at a pizza joint after school, and Becka is overjoyed. Again with the pizza!!
First, she stops at Glynis's house to hang out. She is trying on some of Glynis's clothes and Glynis helps her pick out a cool outfit. Becka keeps the clothes when Glynis leaves the room, stating that best friends ALWAYS share with each other. Hmmmmmmm.
While out for pizza and Coke, Becka spots her former boyfriend Eric. Becka seems a bit unstable to me at this point. Very overeager. This is because as soon as she spots Eric she immediately ditches Frankie and Glynis and then goes out to Eric's car and apologizes for not keeping in touch and starts making out with him. She makes a date with him for later on in the week. THEN she leaves him abruptly. She is overwhelmed by what a great day it has been. She goes home to paint her fingernails. In the process she has an imaginary phone call with Frankie in which he professes his love for her and then she realizes that she has written "BILL" all over her face in nail polish. Seems that she really isn't recovered after all.
Later on at the mall she runs into Eric. She's pretty stoked to see him until he calls her Honey. This sends her into a fit of rage. She screams at him not to call her that, but Eric points behind her and shows that the REAL Becka is standing a foot away. DUN DUN DUN. Honey loses her shit and finds the nearest weapon, which happens to be a pair of beads. Instead of killing the actual Becka, she strangles Eric to death for daring to call her Honey. Wow. I'm impressed already!
Then we get to part 2 with the ACTUAL Becka attending Eric's funeral. Remember, Eric is the guy she dated before Bill. It turns out that Bill is alive. A humdinger, this book is. He was stabbed by Honey, but his lung was all that he lost. He's making it by fine on one lung. He tells Becka this after the funeral, but she isn't able to talk to him or look him in the eye. This really upsets Bill, who can't believe that she won't reconsider all they used to have. Becka has a new boyfriend now named Larry, but she treats him like shit throughout the whole book. Poor Larry. He's the Winston Egbert of this series.
Becka's best friends Lilah (Lila!) and Trish also lived through Honey's horrors. Apparently Becka never visited Trish in the hospital because she was so distraught and trying to recover from being blamed for what happened to Bill. Now that Becka knows Honey is on the loose again, she gets a restraining order.
No, I'm just kidding! She's not that smart!! She doesn't even really tell her parents or the police what is going on. The police ARE on the hunt for Honey, however. I kind of love her. She is the Margo Black of Fear Street. Instead of protecting herself from blatant evil, Becka asks her doctor, Dr. Perlberg, if she can have an increase in her medication. Yes, because THAT will stop the crazy.
The late-night phone calls start again, where Becka is constantly threatened. One night she finds the seats of her car slashed up with a dead rat gutted in the middle of the seat. Ugh! Every chapter's end, I kid you not, ends with the "shock" of Becka running into Honey.... except that it's never actually Honey she runs into. Surprised? I'm not. I've got these Fear Street down to a science over the past couple of days.
Right before Part 3 Becka receives another phone call in which Honey promises her "best friend" that she has something sharp and shiny for her. Becka is as crazy as Honey at this point. She is completely ignoring Larry and thinks that every single person is Honey. One day Becka thinks she sees something shiny like a knife behind her car. Before she can freak out, however, Honey jumps out and attacks her. She literally smashes Becka's face into the ground and tells her that SHE is Becka. She is Becka, goddamnit!! After having to receive stitches in the hospital, Becka finally tells her parents what's going on and her father calls the police.
For some reason, Becka decides she should go on a date with Larry. They go to a local restaurant. Predictably, Becka sees Honey coming towards her with a knife. Only it's not Honey - it's an auburn-haired waitress handing a steak knife to a customer. Becka flies off the deep end. She keeps screeching about how "she's crazy! she wants to kill me!" and the waitress is mortified because she thinks Becka is talking about her.
Larry drives her home and offers to keep her company, which would be a smart move, all things considered. Becka is a dumbass and insists that it's FINE for her to go into her house alone. Not only that, but she thinks it's okay to LEAVE ALL THE LIGHTS OFF as she goes upstairs. She just wants to crawl into bed and go to sleep. Tough luck, kid. Her bed is covered in blood, which she discovers when she FINALLY turns on the lights. There is a message smeared on her mirror that says "This is u." Becka starts screeching and raving again, and she collapses in her dad's arms. She spends the night in a cot in the basement, which would be even creepier to me.
The next night she receives another creepy call with Honey telling her that she's coming for her best friend right now. Becka decides to flee the house. She is greeted by Bill at the door who has come to talk AGAIN. The phone rings once more, and Becka decides to answer it. This time it's Lilah, but Becka has no time to listen to what she has to say. She leaves with Bill who promises to keep her safe at his father's condo (or somesuch) in Fear Street Woods. I am proud of myself, because I was immediately suspicious of Bill. CLEARLY something is up here.
They arrive at the condo, and it's just as Becka remembers it. The phone rings as soon as she gets there, and Becka is surprised. When she answers it's Lilah on the phone again. Lilah tells her that the police caught Honey a day or so after she beat Becka's face into the pavement. This means that all the blood and the creepy message in Becka's room were NOT the result of Honey's work. DUN DUN DUN.
I need to backtrack a minute and say that in the first book no backstory was given on Honey. She just claimed to know Becka and that was that. (At least, that's what I gather from other reviews.) In this one it is revealed that Becka DID know Honey when she was younger. Honey was Hannah, a girl whose entire family was shot and so she had to go live with her uncle. She wanted desperately to be Becka's friend back then. She wanted ANYBODY as a friend. She was very needy. Becka played a cruel trick on her and told her that if she barked onstage in front of the whole school that she could be part of the Cool Club for life. Yikes, Becka. After that, Becka never saw Hannah again. Until she became Honey, that is.
So now Becka is in a condo that suddenly doesn't feel so safe. Bill comes back from getting firewood and sneers at her to get off the phone. Out of the shadows comes Trish, Becka's supposed best friend. She was the mastermind behind Becka's bloodsoaked bedroom (alliteration!). See, she's holding a grudge because Becka never visited her or Bill in the hospital. Trish thinks that Becka is a very selfish friend, and now she has to pay. She pulls out a knife and stabs at Becka but ends up stabbing Bill instead. I hope she doesn't hit his other lung. That Bill has super rotten luck. Becka manages to twist the knife around and hold it up to Trish's throat, and she backs off. The police arrive on the scene, and Becka tries to stop Bill from bleeding out. She promises that she'll be a good friend to him this time.
The Actual Suspect(s): Honey, Trish, Bill
Gaping Plot Holes: In the beginning Honey has long, auburn hair. A few chapters later it is blonde. Her counselor acknowledges this, but it never says that she dyed it or anything.
December 19, 2024
Everyone getting their shit rocked. Awesome
May 7, 2023
So much left out on this last book. It definitely needs a part 3. It just leaves it off with necessary questions that needs answering to finally put an end to this book.
May 31, 2024
Round this one up to 3.5 stars.
When it comes to sequels for books, The Best Friend 2 is one that really actually had demand for it.
Spoilers will come because when The Best Friend came out, R.L. Stine got many a fan letter saying how much readers hated the ending. It was one where the bad guy wins and a lot of people didn't like Honey Perkins getting off scot-free.
I guess most of them forget that Becka Norwood wasn't exactly a very nice protagonist and this sequel book won't let you forget that. She was not Reva Dalby levels of awful but still a whiny, self-centered and high-strung girl.
Anyway, towards the end of Fear Street's first run they had a big contest about what should be done to make Honey pay for the crimes in the first book. If you were old enough (I was not unfortunately...) you could write an essay to Stine and he would pick the one he liked best to put in a sequel story.
The winner was a girl from Grafton, Wisconsin named Sara Bikman and her prize was to get 5 autographed copies of The Best Friend 2. Talk about a real where are they now situation for both Sara and those 5 books...
Holding that in regard, you can't really judge the story too harshly because who knows what was all picked from that essay as the final story...what was Sara and what was Stine.
So if you haven't read The Best Friend, prepare for spoilers as I continue.
We start the book with Becka now going to school in Waynesbridge to finish her senior year after all of the stuff that went down with Honey. Becka has to see the guidance counselor and retells most of the plot but we learn that she had to have major therapy to get this better.
Bringing up the memories has Becka mistaking a guy for Bill Planter, who Honey stabbed and framed Becka for, but the poor guy isn't. Becka does seem to recover that embarrassing moment by befriending a girl named Glynis in her class and then hanging out with Glynis and her boyfriend, Frankie.
We see that perhaps the therapy didn't take as Becka has a few moments where it seems she is obsessed with Glynis and Frankie and having trouble coping about Bill. Hanging out with her new friends, Becka runs into Eric Fraser.
Eris was the boy Becka dumped to get with Bill and Honey dated and dumped to be all Single White Female buddies with Becka. He is surprised to see her but it seems as if every thing is okay between them until we get the early mark spoiler that had to be kept like Psycho in the movie theaters in the 1960s...
We have not been following Becka but HONEY going by Becka's name and she could have easily avoided this if she hadn't gone back to Shadyside with Glynis and Frankie just to shop. Did she really think neither of them would call her Becka in front of someone from Shadyside...especially when it happens to be Eric working his job at the clothing store?
What gums that up even more is that the real Becka Norwood is shopping IN THE VERY SAME STORE just one row of clothing racks over. Honey goes berserk and ends up strangling Eric with some glass beads heavy enough to cut into his skin, slitting his throat and asphyxiating him with his own blood.
Becka witnesses this and then Honey tries to blame her for killing Eric just like she did with Bill except there are a ton of other people this time to see the story. Only Honey ends up getting away just like she did from the mental hospital where she had been locked up for the past year...oh and Bill is still alive.
We learn that when we follow the real Becka having to attend poor Eric's funeral with her two best friends Lilah and Trish from the first book. Bill survived but now he only has one lung and he is a living and breathing example of Becka's very real PTSD and guilt that she finds it painful to be around him.
Bill wants to get back with Becka but she has a new boyfriend named Larry and treats Bill as if he has leprosy or something instead of only functioning with ONE LUNG and literally running after her just to talk.
I guess knowing that Honey is back out there and coming for Becka is enough to weigh on her mind but still give poor Bill a break...
What does follow is the normal things you can expect from a psycho in a Fear Street book but we get some real swerves delivered to us in The Best Friend 2...both positive and negative.
We get more about Honey's past which is good but the payoff for that is just such weak sauce but it does lead to the biggest twist if not the most mind-blowing ending. No WTF like back in The Best Friend but the sequel has a more ambiguous ending even if it leans on the more...bittersweet side.
This is actually a Fear Street sequel worth checking out.
When it comes to sequels for books, The Best Friend 2 is one that really actually had demand for it.
Spoilers will come because when The Best Friend came out, R.L. Stine got many a fan letter saying how much readers hated the ending. It was one where the bad guy wins and a lot of people didn't like Honey Perkins getting off scot-free.
I guess most of them forget that Becka Norwood wasn't exactly a very nice protagonist and this sequel book won't let you forget that. She was not Reva Dalby levels of awful but still a whiny, self-centered and high-strung girl.
Anyway, towards the end of Fear Street's first run they had a big contest about what should be done to make Honey pay for the crimes in the first book. If you were old enough (I was not unfortunately...) you could write an essay to Stine and he would pick the one he liked best to put in a sequel story.
The winner was a girl from Grafton, Wisconsin named Sara Bikman and her prize was to get 5 autographed copies of The Best Friend 2. Talk about a real where are they now situation for both Sara and those 5 books...
Holding that in regard, you can't really judge the story too harshly because who knows what was all picked from that essay as the final story...what was Sara and what was Stine.
So if you haven't read The Best Friend, prepare for spoilers as I continue.
We start the book with Becka now going to school in Waynesbridge to finish her senior year after all of the stuff that went down with Honey. Becka has to see the guidance counselor and retells most of the plot but we learn that she had to have major therapy to get this better.
Bringing up the memories has Becka mistaking a guy for Bill Planter, who Honey stabbed and framed Becka for, but the poor guy isn't. Becka does seem to recover that embarrassing moment by befriending a girl named Glynis in her class and then hanging out with Glynis and her boyfriend, Frankie.
We see that perhaps the therapy didn't take as Becka has a few moments where it seems she is obsessed with Glynis and Frankie and having trouble coping about Bill. Hanging out with her new friends, Becka runs into Eric Fraser.
Eris was the boy Becka dumped to get with Bill and Honey dated and dumped to be all Single White Female buddies with Becka. He is surprised to see her but it seems as if every thing is okay between them until we get the early mark spoiler that had to be kept like Psycho in the movie theaters in the 1960s...
We have not been following Becka but HONEY going by Becka's name and she could have easily avoided this if she hadn't gone back to Shadyside with Glynis and Frankie just to shop. Did she really think neither of them would call her Becka in front of someone from Shadyside...especially when it happens to be Eric working his job at the clothing store?
What gums that up even more is that the real Becka Norwood is shopping IN THE VERY SAME STORE just one row of clothing racks over. Honey goes berserk and ends up strangling Eric with some glass beads heavy enough to cut into his skin, slitting his throat and asphyxiating him with his own blood.
Becka witnesses this and then Honey tries to blame her for killing Eric just like she did with Bill except there are a ton of other people this time to see the story. Only Honey ends up getting away just like she did from the mental hospital where she had been locked up for the past year...oh and Bill is still alive.
We learn that when we follow the real Becka having to attend poor Eric's funeral with her two best friends Lilah and Trish from the first book. Bill survived but now he only has one lung and he is a living and breathing example of Becka's very real PTSD and guilt that she finds it painful to be around him.
Bill wants to get back with Becka but she has a new boyfriend named Larry and treats Bill as if he has leprosy or something instead of only functioning with ONE LUNG and literally running after her just to talk.
I guess knowing that Honey is back out there and coming for Becka is enough to weigh on her mind but still give poor Bill a break...
What does follow is the normal things you can expect from a psycho in a Fear Street book but we get some real swerves delivered to us in The Best Friend 2...both positive and negative.
We get more about Honey's past which is good but the payoff for that is just such weak sauce but it does lead to the biggest twist if not the most mind-blowing ending. No WTF like back in The Best Friend but the sequel has a more ambiguous ending even if it leans on the more...bittersweet side.
This is actually a Fear Street sequel worth checking out.
January 9, 2020
lmao this was nuts. i loved it.
January 11, 2017
I know I've read this at least once before, but I had absolutely no memory of it whatsoever. After re-reading The Best Friend a couple of years ago, I've been dying to know what happened to Honey. Luckily, my new library had this book and so now I finally know what happened to her... and it's very lackluster.
The twist in Part One was fantastic, and the ending was great, but
Even with those complaints, though, this was still fun to read. And like I said above, Part One and the ending were great.
The twist in Part One was fantastic, and the ending was great, but
Even with those complaints, though, this was still fun to read. And like I said above, Part One and the ending were great.
January 19, 2015
For some reason, I liked this book more than most of the others in the series as a child. Graphic and better storyline than most of its predecessors.
March 16, 2018
Hat mir sehr gut gefallen! Mal eine andere Erzählweise und eine spannende Geschichte :)
November 19, 2022
This started as really promising, but then... Meh.
April 28, 2022
Honey Perkins did a number on her best friend, Becka Norwood. Now, she's trying to move on with her life, a year separating her from the events of the first book. She's had a mental breakdown since then but is heavily medicated and seeing a psychiatrist on the reg.
However, no pills can save her from when Honey reenters her life more batshit crazy and dangerous than before. Eventually, no pills can stop Becka from a full mental collapse as she thinks Honey is lurking behind every corner. But there may be someone else Becka should be worried about as much too.
Let's run down those YA Thriller totals:
1 dead body
1 dead rat
1 undead body (from first book)
Kill Rating: ☠️☠️☠️☠️ / 5: We get a very public strangulation with a bead necklace that tears into the skin of our victim.
Necklace Fu
Pavement Fu
Umbrella Fu
Knife Fu
Gratuitous mistaken identity
Gratuitous chocolate nail polish
Gratuitous Bill
Gratuitous fantasies
Gratuitous flashbacks
Gratuitous "borrowing" of clothes
Gratuitous identity theft
Gratuitous heavy phone breathing
Gratuitous rat mutilation
Gratuitous use of the word "friend"
Hanky Panky: Becka runs into old boyfriend Eric at a pizza place and ends up sucking face not long after.
Book Cover: We get a cracked picture frame of a smiling Becka while an evil Honey looks her way. This book adopts the newer Fear Street look, as book sales must have been down at the time. I'm not a fan of it.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 out of 5. Fear Nerd says, "Check it out!"
For my first time reading it, this was quite the roller coaster with plenty of twists. I saw the first one coming, but it was good enough that it probably still shocked a lot of readers. The last twist I didn't predict completely. This book amped up the violence versus the first book, and we got more of Honey's backstory though a twin brother is added, which wasn't mentioned in the first book. I'll overlook it this time, Bob.
However, no pills can save her from when Honey reenters her life more batshit crazy and dangerous than before. Eventually, no pills can stop Becka from a full mental collapse as she thinks Honey is lurking behind every corner. But there may be someone else Becka should be worried about as much too.
Let's run down those YA Thriller totals:
1 dead body
1 dead rat
1 undead body (from first book)
Kill Rating: ☠️☠️☠️☠️ / 5: We get a very public strangulation with a bead necklace that tears into the skin of our victim.
Necklace Fu
Pavement Fu
Umbrella Fu
Knife Fu
Gratuitous mistaken identity
Gratuitous chocolate nail polish
Gratuitous Bill
Gratuitous fantasies
Gratuitous flashbacks
Gratuitous "borrowing" of clothes
Gratuitous identity theft
Gratuitous heavy phone breathing
Gratuitous rat mutilation
Gratuitous use of the word "friend"
Hanky Panky: Becka runs into old boyfriend Eric at a pizza place and ends up sucking face not long after.
Book Cover: We get a cracked picture frame of a smiling Becka while an evil Honey looks her way. This book adopts the newer Fear Street look, as book sales must have been down at the time. I'm not a fan of it.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 out of 5. Fear Nerd says, "Check it out!"
For my first time reading it, this was quite the roller coaster with plenty of twists. I saw the first one coming, but it was good enough that it probably still shocked a lot of readers. The last twist I didn't predict completely. This book amped up the violence versus the first book, and we got more of Honey's backstory though a twin brother is added, which wasn't mentioned in the first book. I'll overlook it this time, Bob.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 21, 2025
/4 stars
The resolution fans asked for that wasn’t actually a resolution. The story starts off being narrated by Becka after almost being killed by psycho ex best friend Honey. Turns out the narrator is Honey aka Hannah aka Becka as she now goes by.
She sees the real Becka and goes ballistic killing Eric, the clueless ex boyfriend. Switch to the real Becka, who is not ok. Despite therapy this girl has major trauma from almost being murdered. She sees honey everywhere and has panic attacks accompanied by screaming fits and people shamelessly staring.
Eventually we learn that Honey is caught by police but Becka is still being targeted but by who? Turns out it was the real friend (not for long) Trish who was sad because Becka didn’t visit her in the hospital because of Becka’s mental problems, accusing her of being selfish. Uhhh no. That motive is way too weak for MURDER of all things. Also girl you can’t expect a mental patient to visit YOU in the hospital that’s asking for trouble. Anyways creepy Bill was in on the plan shockingly. Of course he was he acted strange the whole book. If Trish loved bill so much why didn’t she just date him?
Redhead Moment: literally the whole cast. Trish, Honey, Becka, Larry, and the random waitress.
The resolution fans asked for that wasn’t actually a resolution. The story starts off being narrated by Becka after almost being killed by psycho ex best friend Honey. Turns out the narrator is Honey aka Hannah aka Becka as she now goes by.
She sees the real Becka and goes ballistic killing Eric, the clueless ex boyfriend. Switch to the real Becka, who is not ok. Despite therapy this girl has major trauma from almost being murdered. She sees honey everywhere and has panic attacks accompanied by screaming fits and people shamelessly staring.
Eventually we learn that Honey is caught by police but Becka is still being targeted but by who? Turns out it was the real friend (not for long) Trish who was sad because Becka didn’t visit her in the hospital because of Becka’s mental problems, accusing her of being selfish. Uhhh no. That motive is way too weak for MURDER of all things. Also girl you can’t expect a mental patient to visit YOU in the hospital that’s asking for trouble. Anyways creepy Bill was in on the plan shockingly. Of course he was he acted strange the whole book. If Trish loved bill so much why didn’t she just date him?
Redhead Moment: literally the whole cast. Trish, Honey, Becka, Larry, and the random waitress.
October 29, 2019
Take a shot every time the word “Honey” is written in this book...
This is officially the worst Fear Street book I’ve ever read so far... I would’ve given it a 1 star but I actually enjoyed part 1, the first half was enjoyable and it seemed to be going somewhere interesting. The idea that Becka would now be the obsessive friend seemed cool, but at the end of part 1 and onwards we completely forget that that part even happened... I’m actually mad it didn’t continue with that story. Instead, what we got was obnoxiously repetitive and boring. So many cop out “scares” of Becka thinking Honey is after her when it’s someone or something else, it gets old after the 2nd time...
it’s true what they say, sequels just aren’t as good as the first. Do yourself a favour and just pretend this sequel doesn’t exist and stick with the first one only.
This is officially the worst Fear Street book I’ve ever read so far... I would’ve given it a 1 star but I actually enjoyed part 1, the first half was enjoyable and it seemed to be going somewhere interesting. The idea that Becka would now be the obsessive friend seemed cool, but at the end of part 1 and onwards we completely forget that that part even happened... I’m actually mad it didn’t continue with that story. Instead, what we got was obnoxiously repetitive and boring. So many cop out “scares” of Becka thinking Honey is after her when it’s someone or something else, it gets old after the 2nd time...
it’s true what they say, sequels just aren’t as good as the first. Do yourself a favour and just pretend this sequel doesn’t exist and stick with the first one only.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 10, 2022
Full review at: https://www.jackreacts.com.au/fear-st...
Snippet: While not as good as the first one, The Best Friend 2 had it’s moments. Even though I guessed the twist within the first third of the book, I appreciate the cleverness of it! It probably would have tricked people who didn’t read the first book right before this one or remember certain details about the characters.
I also became less sympathetic towards Becka, and her constantly thinking every single sound or smallest incident was Honey-related got pretty repetitive and tiresome. Like, I get that she’s traumatised from last year, but I think it could have been explored in other ways to show that.
Check out my full review linked up top for an in-depth recap :)
Snippet: While not as good as the first one, The Best Friend 2 had it’s moments. Even though I guessed the twist within the first third of the book, I appreciate the cleverness of it! It probably would have tricked people who didn’t read the first book right before this one or remember certain details about the characters.
I also became less sympathetic towards Becka, and her constantly thinking every single sound or smallest incident was Honey-related got pretty repetitive and tiresome. Like, I get that she’s traumatised from last year, but I think it could have been explored in other ways to show that.
Check out my full review linked up top for an in-depth recap :)
June 4, 2017
in 2013 my local library was getting ride of all paperback books and they had all the R.L. Stine / Christopher Pike books so I bought all of them and read them with a massive teen book marathon .. I really hope that a whole new generation of teens gets to fall in love with these books !!! as they are simply the best I loved all of these books in my teens .. :) and I really enjoyed going down memory lane re reading them as an adult ... :)
February 5, 2021
I gotta say that I wish RL didn't succumb to the pressure from fans to write a sequel where Honey pays for her crimes. The first book I really liked, but this one was underwhelming. I hated the ending the most of all, and I guessed pretty quickly who the other big baddie was. Also Becka sucks and is an unlikeable protagonist so its hard to feel sorry for her. I get why people wanna kill her all the time, she's a grade A cunt.
October 16, 2025
We are heading back to the street that needs no introduction. A street where anything can go wrong.
Do you remember Honey and Becka from The Best Friend?
This is story following that book.
I can promise that you will love this.
If you have not read the Best Friend read now.
Everybody wants a best friend. How far will you go to make that happen.
Ask Honey. She has a lot to share with you. It will leave you feeling shocked.
Are you ready?
Highly Recommend.
Do you remember Honey and Becka from The Best Friend?
This is story following that book.
I can promise that you will love this.
If you have not read the Best Friend read now.
Everybody wants a best friend. How far will you go to make that happen.
Ask Honey. She has a lot to share with you. It will leave you feeling shocked.
Are you ready?
Highly Recommend.
July 23, 2020
This started out with a interesting take but after the first part it got so unrealistic, the main character was annoying and the thinking Honey was around the corner at every chapter end was annoying by the fifth time. The end could have been worse. I know this is a teen book from the 90's but after reading this and the prequel...why was this type of book the "thriller" of the time for teens?
July 30, 2024
Following up on Becka after she is no longer being targeted by Honey. This book is a bit confusing. The first part is from Honey's perspective pretending to be Becka...and then we switch to Becka's perspective who has clearly been traumatized by what Honey did to her. R.L. Stine came back to the "Best Friend" story to improve it, but it seems to be lacking something.
October 28, 2020
THE FIRST TWIST WAS SOOOOO GOOD. ending was meh :/ I hope bill didn’t die lol this man has been stabbed way too many times. Still a pretty good sequel though, just wish honey would’ve been the only villain.
also this is the 100th book I’ve read this year this has never! happened before!!!!
also this is the 100th book I’ve read this year this has never! happened before!!!!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 19, 2024
4,5 Sterne
Das Buch war Mega gut und hat mich wirklich unterhalten aber das Ende war kacke
Edit: lol hab grad gesehen das dieses Buch der zweite Teil von nem anderen ist 💀 hab den ersten Teil nicht gelesen dachte fear street wären alles Einzelbände 😭
Das Buch war Mega gut und hat mich wirklich unterhalten aber das Ende war kacke
Edit: lol hab grad gesehen das dieses Buch der zweite Teil von nem anderen ist 💀 hab den ersten Teil nicht gelesen dachte fear street wären alles Einzelbände 😭
July 21, 2025
The best friend was one of my favorite Fear Street books and when I found out there was a second one I looked everywhere for it so when I saw it for free at my favorite book store I had to grab it and it did not disappoint for me. I loved everything about it. Defiantly a good follow up book.
October 12, 2019
This was a good read! I loved the first best friend so much I just couldn’t wait to get my hands on part two!
April 19, 2021
Did not like this sequel one bit.
October 8, 2021
Had to skip around after I heard there was a Best Friend 2! I actually enjoyed this one, compared to the first. The ending had a great twist.
August 31, 2022
Can we talk about how beckas personality did a complete 180 compared to part 1? No? Ok
February 28, 2023
The strange thing is, the copy of the book that I got from the library is clearly titled “The Best Friend 2”. Where did the “The” come from?!
June 5, 2023
Happy to snag a copy of this sorta hard to find Fear Street book. I read it so fast. Good ending. ❤️
8.0/10
8.0/10
December 8, 2024
Honey was a better villain. Not seasonal like the first book. Needs a third book which we will probably never get.
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