In Red Rain, Stine uses his unerring knack for creating terror to tap into some very grownup fears. 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.
For the millions of readers who grew up on Goosebumps, and for every fan of deviously inventive horror, this is a must-read from a beloved master of the genre.
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This was so dumb.
I never read Goosebumps, I was already reading Stephen King in elementary school so I don't have that Goosebump nostalgia for RL Stine. So I don't mind saying this was the dumbest book I've ever read.
First of all, he should have taken out the pathetic sex scenes and just marketed it as a middle grades book. The writing is juvenile as if Stine believes all readers can only understand childish writing. The twins could have been creepy, but he gave them laser eyes and made their big evil plan to “RULE THE SCHOOL” and maybe also “RULE THE POOL”. What the actual fuck?
With language like “boyo” and 30-ish adults calling each other “dear” and “darling” it read like a book by Mary Higgins Clark from the early 90s. And that ending....I hate everything about this book.
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