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Cargando... The Burningpor R. L. Stine
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This last book in the Fear Street Saga which tells the story of the curse that plagues Fear Street rounds out what happened to the Fier (Fear) family although the fate of the Goode's is left up in the air. It is not as creepy as the first two books but goes about the business of winding up the story. I did enjoy finding out about the families although there is a sense of hopelessness toward the end. No one seems to have learned any lessons about the futility of seeking revenge. No one learns to be forgiving. I kept waiting for a ray of hope. Well, I guess if that had happened we wouldn't have Fear Street. The book was the end of a trilogy. This is also the first book I read in my first highschool library that sparks my obsessiveness with paranormal fiction. My sister had the book earlier than this series about a girl who had the Fear medallion which was stolen by one of the Fear who left her to die. But the entire series was out of print. Can't seem to find it anywhere since 2003. The book was the end of a trilogy. This is also the first book I read in my first highschool library that sparks my obsessiveness with paranormal fiction. My sister had the book earlier than this series about a girl who had the Fear medallion which was stolen by one of the Fear who left her to die. But the entire series was out of print. Can't seem to find it anywhere since 2003. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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The body count is so far the most epic thing about the books. It slows down some in 'The Burning', no whole villages this time folks, but I also got the sense that Stine enjoyed the freedom of writing about teenagers outside of the loose continuity of Shadyside and am not surprised that this Saga trilogy inspired the Sagas spin-off series Stine begins three years after this in 1996. I have a heck of a lot of books to read before I can get to those, however.
Nora Goode promised more evil to come and we witness Simon Fear (a name change was promised to be enough to change his fortunes, uhhhhh) courting the bored and rich Angelica Pierce in 1845 New Orleans. There's a lot of reference to "servants" and no mention of any problems or actual evil being done to keep those "servants" there, so I'm not sure why Stine chose to move the plot here if he was just going to ignore slavery.
There's a bit of will-they won't-they with Angelica and Simon and some other suitors, but the only real surprise is just how cartoonishly evil we are TOLD these two are. There's a lot of sorcerous hand-waving as the action moves us, FINALLY, to Shadyside, OH. Again, naturally, this requires a time-jump and avoiding the American Civil War.
Why?
Anyway, it's 1865 and the Fears have five children and bad things happen to them which allows us to get to 1900 and see the stage set for the glorious burning of the Fear Mansion. I mean, are we not going to have any character development at all outside of Nora Goode's melodramatic journaling?
I felt there was a lot of wasted opportunity here. We got more of a backstory to Sarah Fear in the 'Cheerleaders' trilogy as far as character and motivations. Simon Fear and Angelica enjoy a little blood-drinking and tarot cards and raised some awful children, but we don't know who they are as characters and, generally, I wasn't invested in Nora's beloved Daniel when the Fear Mansion is revealed to be made of oily rags and matches.
In the aftermath of the fire the townspeople come for Nora, but only to tell her that a residential neighborhood is being planned around the burned mansion and through the estate and it's going to be called Fear Street.
Perhaps I'm not reading these in the right spirit any more and in fact took a break from reading anything at all shortly after finishing this trilogy.
Fear Street in Publication Order
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