Point Horror: A Dead Good Read

Search This Blog

The Boyfriend - R L Stine

on October 23, 2020

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Comments

l Carried You On Eagles' Wings - Sue Mayfield

I'm breaking away from PH for this review, partly to mix it up some and also because after what felt like ages, I managed to identify this book. I wasn't even sure it was a Point of any sort but I was reading it around the time of my early 2000s PH revival, so I guessed it might have been. Then all I could remember was a seagull named Bono and a young boy. Plus a hot coloured cover. Randomly a title came up on eBay under Point Horror and boom! Chicka chicka! I'd found it! I hope you read that in the style of Yello's "Oh Yeah" by the way... This is very much based in the north east with Geordie-isms oozing through before North Tyne High or Newcastle United are even mentioned. "Kes" and "Geordie Racer" also squirmed up from the recesses of my mind. I almost expected a pamphlet to be issued for me to work through l was sent so much back to my school days! Little snippets like asking a girl to a rave, hiding a zit, shy first love,...

Flight 116 Is Down - Caroline B Cooney

The first one I'm copying over is in the wider Point canon and I'd seen advertised at the back of various gaudy Point Horror covers and it's always piqued my interest. Some of the original responses I got to the original post disagreed a lot with this review. Later I moved over to a more recap style. Enjoy :) From summer 2010 and when when I was living in Glasgow: As I mentioned previously in my post, the first “Point Horror” book I am going to look at is “Flight 116 Is Down” by Caroline B Cooney who is one of the more prolific Point writers. Admittedly, “Flight 116” is not a Point Horror, but it is in the Point canon and being Cabin Crew myself, I was intrigued by this book. And it was well worth it! A very engrossing and realistic read with interesting characters like Heidi: who feels trapped, Darienne: who cares for no-one but herself and Patrick, a young man who is waiting to prove himself. Bizarrely, the plane crash whilst trapping many people in ...

Freeze Tag - Caroline B Cooney

Well, hello! Here is a brand spiffingly spanking new recap/review 🙂 Huzzah! It only took how long?! Yes, yes... you've just calculated it... it's a rhetorical question! As I've mentioned I know I recapped this one back with the others but I'm sure I've managed to delete it. That's what happens when you have bananas for fingers and are a technical Luddite. So, on with the show: Freeze Tag. The subject of this piece. For a Point Horror I'd say it's remarkably thought provoking and not just in the cheesy-wtf-did-l-actually-just-read-there that we've come to know and love. On the one hand it's the typical good versus evil storyline however, exactly who is good and who is evil isn't as clear cut as you might think by the end of the book. To synopsify (I don't actually know if that's a word, but it's staying...), Freeze Tag begins in late childhood around the game of ahem, freeze tag. Someone is it and if they touch you, you...

Powered by Blogger

The Boyfriend - R L Stine

Comments

Post a Comment