carrotsxcks's review
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Blood, Child death, and Injury/injury detail
_sequel_'s review
4.0
These stories would get repetitive without the FNAF background tying them together. Or at least I expected them to since I'm easily out of the target age range of their audience. However, the increasingly diverse backgrounds and stories of each of the characters keep them moving! The style of each story isn't inherently similar either, with some gruesome and hopeless, some kind of peaceful, some unnerving, some with a happy ending.
kirstar's review
3.0
Ik quote minstens twee keer per maand: 'if you wanna be a pirate, you first have to lose an eye and and arm - yargh!'
meganandsally's review
5.0
These books are so well written and filled with pieces to understand the lore of the Fnaf world. My favorite story, out of the three in this book, is “coming home”.
I can’t wait to read the other books in the series.
I can’t wait to read the other books in the series.
littledollreads's review
4.0
Thank goodness all of the stories here were good and I can finally get back into this series. After being enormously disappointed by my inability to finish off the previous book in this series I am glad I can get back with this one. It seems like a lot has happened with the fandom recently and I want to catch back up, but my inability to skip around leaves me the choice of straight through everything I missed.
That being said this was a great collection of stories. It felt good to get back to kids after the last set of stories and it even made me think back to the previous books to see if I could predict the likely outcomes. It was very interesting that siblings were such a big part of this book as so far there has only been one other story involving siblings in the past 9 stories.
Now for some spoiler summaries and discussions.
Our first story starts hard. In it, we have a pair of brothers who don’t get along great after their parent’s divorce. One day the older brother tries to scare his younger brother by dragging him into the maintenance room of Freddy Fazbears Pizza to see Foxy. After leaving he is then set upon by a series of misfortunes that almost lead to him losing an arm and an eye so that he can be a pirate just like foxy. There is some back and forth between the brothers trying to figure things out and just when they think that they have it solved boom truck. In the end, he does lose those arms and eyes as well as everything else.
Our second story follows a thief who after stealing a pair of novelty glasses from a little girl is plagued by visions of Ballora stalking her and slowly approaching ever closer. No matter how far she runs the animatronics is there following her until she sets things right.
The third story starts out so ordinary and you could almost miss the hints that are being dropped. It isn’t until a bit of the way in that what could possibly be an animatronic arrives and the hints start to really build up. And then bang, Chica, and of course it was going to be Chica with the girl’s name of Suzie. Of course, Suzie was dead before the story even started.
I have to say that these were some really great stories and additions to the lore. None are breaking into my favorites of the now 12 shorts but neither are they taking the case for some that I just didn’t like.
The first story was so well foreshadowed that it felt great when everything finally clicked into its terrible places. Not the most original ending but one that felt fitting. I always have this moment in these stories when they are full of background characters that the main character really would look like they were going crazy from an outside perspective and It is interesting to me. I’m glad that we finally got foxy as he is one of my favorites.
The second story may be the first one to have a truly happy ending that doesn’t involve robot destruction. Think about that. The only other happy endings were, Into the Pit and Out of Stock. In both of those different versions of the animatronics are killed in order for the kids to be free but with this story, ballora is not ever destroyed.
The third story has some serious vibes to it. Immediately I was thinking this reminds me of the silver eyes trilogy but I don’t really know why. Specifically, the parts when Charlie thinks back to her life before Afton ruined it. It also reminds me of What Remains of Edith Finch if you have ever heard of that game. After that, it is just really clever. I had a thought for what the twist might be after getting a couple of pages in and had to go back and start over to see if I was imagining things or if I had caught onto the trick. The further into the story and the more I figured I had gotten it right. Suzie not talking much and when she did not being responded to, the ‘rotting smell’, her family’s sadness, and the kids being almost sympathetic for why her sister had become distant at school. And of course, I was right. But I am an avid consumer of theories and this only serves to cement them so the twist is a bit wasted on me. This one is also the least horror or frightening of all the stories. It is more lore than anything else.
Now for my favorite part of these reviews the connectivity to the rest of FNAF lore.
The first story features Freddy Fazbears Pizza open for business so there’s that. We also get Foxy in a staring role along with what was definitely a bit of magic courtesy of a pentacle and candles. A cure is looking really good for the explanation here. It was also interesting that at the end it felt like the kid’s soul was still attached to his dead body and hadn’t gone anywhere unlike most souls in the universe.
The second story has Circus Babys Pizza World open for business but we never go inside. We also have Ballora being wired as always. She has always been one of the stranger animatronics and unless she is somehow invisible now too I’m not entirely sure what kind of trickery she is up to.
The final story is definitely the most connected and probably important for lore purposes. We are really going hard on the Chica is Suzie thing. Here the murders have already happened and it is a known fact that they were done by a serial killer. It feels a lot like how the other books dealt with this part of the story. And again ghosts.
I overall really liked this book and am so excited to get back into the swing of things with FNAF lore.
That being said this was a great collection of stories. It felt good to get back to kids after the last set of stories and it even made me think back to the previous books to see if I could predict the likely outcomes. It was very interesting that siblings were such a big part of this book as so far there has only been one other story involving siblings in the past 9 stories.
Now for some spoiler summaries and discussions.
Spoiler
Our first story starts hard. In it, we have a pair of brothers who don’t get along great after their parent’s divorce. One day the older brother tries to scare his younger brother by dragging him into the maintenance room of Freddy Fazbears Pizza to see Foxy. After leaving he is then set upon by a series of misfortunes that almost lead to him losing an arm and an eye so that he can be a pirate just like foxy. There is some back and forth between the brothers trying to figure things out and just when they think that they have it solved boom truck. In the end, he does lose those arms and eyes as well as everything else.
Our second story follows a thief who after stealing a pair of novelty glasses from a little girl is plagued by visions of Ballora stalking her and slowly approaching ever closer. No matter how far she runs the animatronics is there following her until she sets things right.
The third story starts out so ordinary and you could almost miss the hints that are being dropped. It isn’t until a bit of the way in that what could possibly be an animatronic arrives and the hints start to really build up. And then bang, Chica, and of course it was going to be Chica with the girl’s name of Suzie. Of course, Suzie was dead before the story even started.
I have to say that these were some really great stories and additions to the lore. None are breaking into my favorites of the now 12 shorts but neither are they taking the case for some that I just didn’t like.
The first story was so well foreshadowed that it felt great when everything finally clicked into its terrible places. Not the most original ending but one that felt fitting. I always have this moment in these stories when they are full of background characters that the main character really would look like they were going crazy from an outside perspective and It is interesting to me. I’m glad that we finally got foxy as he is one of my favorites.
The second story may be the first one to have a truly happy ending that doesn’t involve robot destruction. Think about that. The only other happy endings were, Into the Pit and Out of Stock. In both of those different versions of the animatronics are killed in order for the kids to be free but with this story, ballora is not ever destroyed.
The third story has some serious vibes to it. Immediately I was thinking this reminds me of the silver eyes trilogy but I don’t really know why. Specifically, the parts when Charlie thinks back to her life before Afton ruined it. It also reminds me of What Remains of Edith Finch if you have ever heard of that game. After that, it is just really clever. I had a thought for what the twist might be after getting a couple of pages in and had to go back and start over to see if I was imagining things or if I had caught onto the trick. The further into the story and the more I figured I had gotten it right. Suzie not talking much and when she did not being responded to, the ‘rotting smell’, her family’s sadness, and the kids being almost sympathetic for why her sister had become distant at school. And of course, I was right. But I am an avid consumer of theories and this only serves to cement them so the twist is a bit wasted on me. This one is also the least horror or frightening of all the stories. It is more lore than anything else.
Now for my favorite part of these reviews the connectivity to the rest of FNAF lore.
The first story features Freddy Fazbears Pizza open for business so there’s that. We also get Foxy in a staring role along with what was definitely a bit of magic courtesy of a pentacle and candles. A cure is looking really good for the explanation here. It was also interesting that at the end it felt like the kid’s soul was still attached to his dead body and hadn’t gone anywhere unlike most souls in the universe.
The second story has Circus Babys Pizza World open for business but we never go inside. We also have Ballora being wired as always. She has always been one of the stranger animatronics and unless she is somehow invisible now too I’m not entirely sure what kind of trickery she is up to.
The final story is definitely the most connected and probably important for lore purposes. We are really going hard on the Chica is Suzie thing. Here the murders have already happened and it is a known fact that they were done by a serial killer. It feels a lot like how the other books dealt with this part of the story. And again ghosts.
I overall really liked this book and am so excited to get back into the swing of things with FNAF lore.
booksbasilbabies's review
4.0
Four stars for the fourth book in the Fazbear Frights series. And yes, I’m still absolutely shocked by how much I’m enjoying this series. As always, there’s three stories from the FNAF universe—Step Closer, Dance with Me, and Coming Home.
I loved all three of the stories—quite honestly, Coming Home is my favorite only because of the straight up lore answers inside. But all three of these stories are downright excellent, disturbing, and borderline beautiful in a way.
Good, quick, downright creepy read. Big fan.
I loved all three of the stories—quite honestly, Coming Home is my favorite only because of the straight up lore answers inside. But all three of these stories are downright excellent, disturbing, and borderline beautiful in a way.
Good, quick, downright creepy read. Big fan.