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A review by mrjack
Chicken Chicken by R.L. Stine
1.0
A wonderful high school friend gave me this book as a sort of cringe gift. He called it the “worst Goosebumps book ever.”
He was right.
Nothing about this book works. Goosebumps parents are always incompetent, but these parents didn’t react to their children turning into chickens. The story concludes on a moral messaging that’s incongruent with the narrative. Several chapters end on cliffhangers and jump scares that are either fake outs or are resolved within a paragraph. Just a mess. Not even fun bad. Just bad.
I’m keeping it forever.
He was right.
Nothing about this book works. Goosebumps parents are always incompetent, but these parents didn’t react to their children turning into chickens. The story concludes on a moral messaging that’s incongruent with the narrative. Several chapters end on cliffhangers and jump scares that are either fake outs or are resolved within a paragraph. Just a mess. Not even fun bad. Just bad.
I’m keeping it forever.