The Haunting Returns

I have mixed feelings about this book.
This is a novelization of Season 1 of the Disney+ Goosebumps series. It also features an epilogue extending beyond the season's ending. That epilogue is great, easily, and makes me wish there was more story following it.
The rest of the book, though... varies.
Sometimes, the book does a good job of being a novelization, adapting scenes well. But a lot of the time, it just rushes through scenes and feels like a summary someone wrote of them. These parts end up rather tedious. There's also one part in the adaptation of episode 2 where important context is left out that explains something, even though it could've been put in there with a single sentence, easily.
Kate Howard had previously written photonovelizations for younger readers for both Goosebumps movies, and this kinda feels like that at times. Not QUITE that far, but still, similar.
Honestly, it might have just been too much to ask her to try to adapt the whole season into a reasonably sized book.
It was the longest Goosebumps book published upon release, only now beaten by the novelization of Season 2 by a few pages. (Confusingly, the actual season was SHORTER than Season 1.) But adapting 10 whole episodes is still a lot for this.
I can't really recommend this book overall, but if you liked Season 1 of the series (which I did), the epilogue's pretty cool. It's a shame a lot of the book prior to it struggles so much...