Grave Intentions

Horror High #3

by R.L. Stine

Originally published as: The boyfriend.

Wealthy, beautiful, spoilt Olivia Collier has everything a girl could wish for - including the perfect boyfriend, Josh. Until she decides he's not so perfect after all and dumps him. That same night, Josh dies in a terrible accident. At least that's what Olivia thought - but now she's seeing him everywhere and he won't leave her alone.

Genres: Horror

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

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

[Sarah Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was okay, the main character was a complete narcissist though.

* Olivia is going to dump her current boyfriend Josh for a new boyfriend Ben.
* Olivia, Josh and his friend Owen go out in the middle of the night to a cliff. Josh messes around and goes off the edge of the cliff.
* Olivia freaks out at how much trouble she'll get into for being out in the middle of the night and drives off, abandoning Josh and Owen. She then crashes her car into a lorry.
* Owen visits Olivia in the hospital to tell her that Josh is dead. She's relieved that she oesn't have to break up with him now.
* Olivia carries on dating Ben, but then Josh turns up. She's not sure if she's happy that he's alive, but goes on a date with him anyway.
* Every time Olivia sees Josh he looks greener and smells worse. She speaks to Owen who tells her that Josh is dead, and he's going to kill her.
* Josh turns up at Olivia's home with a knife and she stabs him and kills him.
* Owen then tells her that it was all a joke and that she really killed Josh. She tells her friends to get rid of the body.
* Josh comes back again, and this time it's revealed that it's another joke, and it was all masterminded by Olivia's best friend because Olivia doesn't care about other people.
* Olivia cries for a while, then phones Ben to try and work things out with him.

[Sanni · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book was just like Goosebumps; it was fast to read and there always happened something at the end of the chapter. It was easy to guess what will happen next in this book but the ending was quite a surprise.

[Starla Cox · Rating 4 out of 5]

this was one of my favorite books in middle school.

[Kayla · Rating 2 out of 5]

This story started out really fantastic and I was engaged and intrigued in what was going on. A little more than halfway through, it seemed like everything was getting repetitive and I easily guessed what was going to happen next. The ending(s) were immensely predictable. There wasn't anything super scary about this book and I grew to hate the main character because she is just the sort of person that embodies a self-centered jerk. I felt kind of patronized at the end of the novel because there was this "lesson" about selfishness that should've been geared towards a much younger audience. I didn't not feel emotionally invested in the plot or the characters. Luckily, it was a quick read.

[Rim · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had to think a bit before i could rate it. It was a good book but as i have read the Step Sister(Amazing!!!!!) previously and the Goosebumps series i couldnt help to comapre the books to each other!
The plot was well written and the ending a suprse!

(Some spoilers!!!)

I mean i was able to predict most of the things but the motives and the ending were completely unexpected as usually such characters die or have some sort of horrible accident happening to them. What threw me off was the fact that Olivia actually felt bad for all that she had done! So i would recomend it to anyone.

[Andrea]

very good for a teenage book

[Hayley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was brilliant I couldn't put it down.I would recommend this to any teenagers.

[Monique · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was very spooky and this teenager boy called Josh and was pretending that he came back from the dead and did a prank on Olivia and he died from an accident.

[Sanjanaree · Rating 2 out of 5]

Please this is my little cousin’s book i read when i was bored at her home.