By: R.L. Stine
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Format: Audio CD, unabridged
Source: publisher for an honest review
BLURB courtsey of Amazon
Travel writer Lea Sutter finds herself on a small island off the
coast of South Carolina, the wrong place at the wrong time. A merciless,
unanticipated hurricane cuts a path of destruction through the island
and Lea barely escapes with her life.
In the storm’s aftermath,
she discovers two orphaned boys—twins. Filled with a desire to do
something to help, to make something good of all she witnessed, Lea
impulsively decides to adopt them. The boys, Samuel and Daniel, seem
amiable and immensely grateful; Lea’s family back on Long Island—husband
Mark, a child psychologist, and their two children, Ira and
Elena—aren’t quite so pleased. But even they can’t anticipate the twins’
true nature—or predict that, within a few weeks’ time, Mark will wind
up implicated in two brutal murders, with the police narrowing in.
REVIEW
I was super excited when I had seen that R.L.
Stine was writing adult fiction. I was an avid reader of his Fear Street series
in high school. When I got the chance to review his latest, Red Rain, I
couldn’t say no.
Lea Sutter has survived Hurricane
Ernesto on the island of Cape Le Chat Noir and found two orphaned angelic
looking twin boys, Daniel and Samuel, who lost their family. She immediately
feels the need to be their mother and bring them home to her husband, Mark, and
her children. Mark is a renowned child psychologist whose latest book has a lot
of parents gunning for him. Once situated the twins began their devious plans
to “rule the school”. Mark is immediately unsettled with the children and feel
that they are taking his wife away from him. The twins decide that they need
Mark out of their way so they kill several people that could be linked to Mark
in order to frame him.
Let’s just say the only unique party of
this book is the intriguing island that Lea was on. I had high hopes after
reading about this island that the dead and the living coexist. Lea also
witnesses a ritual that men commit suicide and then brought back to life. Once
Lea leaves the island that is the end of it. Nothing really ties back to it. We
already know the twins are evil and it is no secret when the murders are
committed who were behind it.
Red Rain is full of gore as a good
horror book should have but that is about it. It did not have a scare factor at
all and personally the narrator wasn’t my cup of tea. It was just like any
other horror book I have read before. Every now and then Stine threw in a sex
scene that felt forced and a “have to” for it to be considered an “adult” book.
The police detectives were not very intelligent and seemed to be typical for
what you would find in a standard horror novel.
Still, if you are a diehard R.L. Stine
reader then you will enjoy the trip down memory lane in his latest gruesome
creation.
PURCHASE RED RAIN
1 comments:
I never read RL Stine growing up. I was a Christopher Pike fan all the way. But I was still thinking about giving Red Rain a try. It's good to know I can give it a pass.
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