Red Rain

Great book.

Im not much of a reader, but I could not put this book down. I finished it in one week and was sad it was over. Looking forward to his next one.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Recommended for light horror reading.

A fun easy read, definitely reminiscent of "Children of the Damned". I'd like to see this author dig deeper into the darkness of his adult psyche, let's see what original horror is in his mind. The story is well written and carries you easily along with a nice little twist at the end. I'll be looking forward to the next book, I thoroughly enjoyed this one.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Love it!

I can't wait until his next book!

2 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

Grown up goosebumps! Thanks R. L. Stine.

I read many Goosebump stories back in the day, and still encourage young readers to try them. This was a fun read. Revenir, revenir, revenir. Once I started, I couldn't stop reading. Stayed up at night reading like I used to with the Goosebump stories.

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I was super excited when I had seen that R.L. Stine was writing

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.

(Audiobook was provided by publisher in exchange for an honest review)

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

I grew up reading R.L. Stine. He writes such great horror that I

I grew up reading R.L. Stine. He writes such great horror that I couldn't get enough of him when I was in elementary school and junior high. I read as many Goosebumps as I could and then moved on to the Fear Street novels! Looking back now they're probably pretty cheesy but R.L. Stine definitely installed himself as one of the great middle grade horror writers! So when I heard that he was writing a horror for adults, I knew that I absolutely had to read it!

The basic plot of Red Rain is that Lea is a travel blog writer and she goes to a little island off the coast of South Carolina. While she's there, a hurricane hits and she ends up taking home twin boys whose parents died in the storm. When they get to Long Island, horrible things start happening and the whole town goes a little crazy. Even though I really enjoyed the story, it's not a mystery to try and figure out what's happening or who is killing people. It's revealed right in the beginning who the twins really are and what their intent is. I enjoy a good horror novel when I have no idea who is behind the murderous and anyone who jumps out could be the killer! But there is still a twist in the end that's revealed which I didn't realize until I was almost finished with the book.

Even though I really liked the book I didn't like that the murderers were these twelve year old twins. I understand that they're pretty unsuspecting and that the adults in the novel would never have guessed that these innocent looking boys are killing people but I thought it was just kind of weird. And I didn't like their accents. They were supposed to be these white boys with blonde hair and blue eyes but they sounded Jamaican! So that kind of threw me off! I also didn't like that the story changed from so many perspectives. That's just a personal preference though.

Red Rain is a great horror novel to read around Halloween time! I give Red Rain 4 hearts because even though the story was a little weird, it still has all the blood, guts and gore that I'm looking for in my horror novels!

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Ok

All I will say is I would have liked this novel a lot better if I was 13.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Great book

Aside from the first thirty pages, I finished this book in one day. It was so good and kept my attention. I couldn't put it down. I loved his goosebumps books when I was a kid and now I love his adult book.

I agree with another reviewer: R.L. Stine should stick to childr

I agree with another reviewer: R.L. Stine should stick to children's books. I was looking forward to a good horror story, but the writing was mediocre. Sorry I wasted my time on this one.

Go back to writing for teens

Not worth the time it took to read.

I was a big fan of R.L. Stine as a kid and was excited to see he

I was a big fan of R.L. Stine as a kid and was excited to see he had written an adult novel. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. I was not scared at any point in the book. The storyline was weird and the only thing "adult" about the book was the sex scene and the gore. It wasn't a bad book, but definitely not up there with the other adult suspense/thriller writers. He is a good storyteller for the younger readers, but sorry to say I won't be reading any future adult books.

Lightkit

*little ehite kit walks up* is this a clan?

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Rainclaw

I want to join rain clan

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So sad to be disappointed

R.L Stine was my favorite author growing up. I was so sad this turrned out to be a such a dissapointment. I have to say sadly the first few chapters ruined it for me. As a girl born and raised in North Carolina, who has been tbrough multiple hurricanes, my experiance made this book hard to even get into. First of all, the Outer Banks are in NC not SC. Secondly the incorrect use of the word "ya'll" really bugged me. It means "you all" not "you" we aren't just a bunch of uneducated idiots down here. Also the whole hurricane experiance is laughable. I grew up on a small island on the coast of NC and when a hurricane comes, everyone evacuates. So these graphic scenes described in the book are completely ludicrous. I hate to hate it, but come on Stine, if you are going to write for adults, you have to do your research!

An adult novel.......?

Take a longer goosebump book, throw in some cursing and sex...viola. you have a goosebump book with an adult edge. I was hoping for a koontz or a king and instead got a campfire story for girl scout cadets. At the first mention of magic hands and hurricanes. I knew the whole book. I was disappointed. I had expected better. Better luck next time Mr. Stine, I doubt if I purchase your next adult book, but I wish you all the bes

AD

Awesome Adult 1st!

If you weren't disappointed as a kid with RL, you certainly won't be with Red Rain!!

Firesong

Okay.

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Return to Fear Street

Not a bad horror novel but, then, not great either. The book is fun if not a bit cliche. The twist I didn't see coming but should have. Reading this is like watching a decent horror movie on Fear Net. The book does hold your interest as you try to figure what these twins are about but the other characters are rather flat. Plot is okay. The book is probably most fun for fans of the old series Fear Street. There's a familiarity there and the book reads fast. Like most of Fear Street, however, Red Rain is just not good enough to stick.

To blazefeather

I would love to have you as deputy. Can you adertise this clan and tell everyone you know to join. Rainclan needs more members.

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Christmas Gift

Waiting for Christmas for my daughter to read, she has really been anxious to have this book

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