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RED RAIN: A NOVEL

  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Touchstone; First Edition edition (October 9, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1451636121
  • ISBN-13: 978-1451636123

ABOUT RED RAIN

Travel writer Lea Sutter finds herself on a small island, Cape Le Chat Noir, off the coast of South Carolina. A merciless, unanticipated hurricane cuts a path of destruction and Lea barely escapes with her life. She has an overwhelming desire to help the devastated island. In the storm?s aftermath, she discovers orphaned twin boys and impulsively decides to adopt them. The boys, Samuel and Daniel, seem amiable and immensely grateful. Then strange things begin to happen. No one could have anticipated the twins? true nature?how could they?

MY THOUGHTS

I received a copy of Red Rain for review. As an avid Goosebumps series and Fear Street series reader when I was a child, I could not pass up the chance to see how R.L. Stine did as an adult fiction writer. Without giving away any spoilers, I will say that this book did not totally disappoint me; I just wish it had a little more suspense and horror. From the first chapter, I was instantly wanting to find out more about this strange island that Sutter was on and what inner secrets the two boys were holding. R.L. Stine has a way of hooking his audience in the very beginning, and Red Rain was no exception to his writing style.

With that being said, this book fell a bit flat for me. While it truly is a creepy tale with children scheming to hurt, and even murder, others, some of the story was pretty predictable. However, the predictability was not always a turn off for me because Stine continued to keep it interesting with cliff-hangers at the end of the chapters. Still, it was a bit less ?horror? than I was expecting for an adult horror novel. The idea of the twins being so creepy and capable of some of their actions was more frightening for me than the writing or plot itself.

The characters were also a bit boring. The Sutter family was not very believable for me. The Sutter?s children were very predictable ? mopey, broody children ? and they didn?t play a very big role in the story. In fact, if they were to have been left out, I doubt I would have noticed a difference in the story. The Sutters themselves also had a very odd relationship that I just could not connect with.

Overall, Red Rain did have good qualities that made it an enjoyable read, though I feel that I had much more fun reading Stine?s young adult/children fiction than I did this one. Still, Stine is and always will be one of my favorite authors and I will most likely jump at the chance to read another adult fiction novel by him.

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