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A review by rkking
Bad Hare Day by R.L. Stine
2.0
I recently got a bit of the nostalgia bug when thinking back to the Goosebumps books I read as a kid. Goosebumps, and by extension the Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark series, definitely introduced me to the genre of horror. After Goosebumps I moved onto classics like Dracula and Jekyll/Hyde, then on to the gown up stuff throughout my life and to this day. Well, this nostalgia bug got me wanting to re-collect the original 62 run of Goosebumps books, and in their first run printings because of the amazing covers. Perhaps the best part of the series was the covers. Next up;
#41, Bad Hare Day
I initially though this would hold an interesting story; revolving Goosebumps creepy-ness around stage magic. Thought it might be a kid friendly version of Lord of Illusions or something. Unfortunately not. This was a bit of a lame duck in the series, filled mostly with bad cliffhanger scares, an overly annoying sibling, and a villain that was just silly. Not much of a 'scary' Goosebumps book at all.
Interesting that it did break the pattern I've been seeing of book cover colors. Until now I got to assuming that orange covers equaled less-scary entries in the series. But this cover was brown. So, pattern broken, at least for what I've come across thus far.
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#41, Bad Hare Day
I initially though this would hold an interesting story; revolving Goosebumps creepy-ness around stage magic. Thought it might be a kid friendly version of Lord of Illusions or something. Unfortunately not. This was a bit of a lame duck in the series, filled mostly with bad cliffhanger scares, an overly annoying sibling, and a villain that was just silly. Not much of a 'scary' Goosebumps book at all.
Interesting that it did break the pattern I've been seeing of book cover colors. Until now I got to assuming that orange covers equaled less-scary entries in the series. But this cover was brown. So, pattern broken, at least for what I've come across thus far.
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