This is the third book in the Fear Street Relaunch series and I really enjoyed this creepy tale of revenge. The story follows Michael, a young guy who notices the new girl in town, Lizzy Walker. This mysterious girl works her way into his friend group and goes on a snowmobiling joyride with them as the fun turns into a terrifying accident that will come back to haunt them all. No spoilers but I definitely recommend it. Thanks to #netgalley for the early review copy.

📖 Book Review 📖

📖 Let me just start off by saying how much fun I’ve been having this month watching the Fear Street Movies and now listening to some of the audiobooks! As a teen I loved Fear Street books and since I was a kid I’ve been a huge fan of R.L. Stine. He really helped inspire my love of reading and writing!

📖 Micheal meets Lizzy, the new girl in town and there is an instant connection. After a day of snowmobiling fun, a horrifying accident changes everything for the group of friends.

📖 Wow! This one was so good! I listened to it all in one evening. I had to know what happened. The narrators did a great job! I was hooked right from the beginning. Highly recommend to any one who loves R.L. Stine’s books or anyone looking for a spooky story.

📖 Thank you to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for providing me with this audiobook in exchange for my honest review.

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I swear no one does thrillers like Stine! I don't remember reading this one growing up, but wow! Reading it now was so good! I finished this book easily in under 24hours. It's a perfect quick read packed with a good amount of thrill to have you literally at the ending sitting like 🤯. (Trust me, that's me right now.)

Stine has a true way with words and writing that just wraps you up and draws you back to the 90s, to the stories, just the nostalgia of this story and the thrill of it made this a 4.5 star read for me for sure!

I love R.L. Stine’s take on horror, it embodies every fear I had as a kid and then some – but don’t count on Stine to alleviate your fears with a HEA, chances are he’ll give you a lot more to be fearful of in the night!

The Lost Girl is one of those stories that plays on past and present, Beth witnesses a horrible event in the 1950’s and we’re left to wonder just what happened to her. On to the present, we meet Michael and his friends, a close-knit group of seniors that are attending Shadyside High. When Michael meets Lizzy, it doesn’t take long for him to become enchanted with her, much to the chagrin of his girlfriend Pepper. When a snowmobiling accident leads to a missing body, things begin to go horribly wrong and Michaels friends begin to die or suffer horrible accidents. Lizzy acts strangely but then again, just how much do they really know about her anyways?

Narration: I’m familiar with both narrators, Brittany Pressley and Dan Bittner and enjoyed their telling of the story. Both are phenomenal, using perfect pitch and cadence to express the emotions and horror of this story. A true delight to listen to!

Whether you’re a kid or an adult, Stine really knows how to raise the *Goosebumps* - see what I did there? His writing is atmospheric and creepy, at times comical but always entertaining! I’ll continue to read or listen to everything he writes with great enjoyment!

My thanks to Macmillan Audio for this ALC to review!

So to be honest I wasn’t a Goosebumps reader growing up just wasn’t my thing I remember watching the show but I don’t think I have ever read a Goosebumps book... so Fear Street? Didn’t even know what that was until the Netflix movies which made me curious... turns out I own and have read exactly 1 Fear Street book (Cheerleaders the Second Evil) though that was a long time ago... With my new curiosity as a whole 34 year old I picked up a few books starting with You May Now Kill the bride in the Return to Fear Street series and then I picked up the Fear Street Relaunch series which brought me here to Lost Girl...

We begin in 1950 with a girl named Beth whose family is on the verge of overcoming their poor immigrant roots and starting their own business. Her father worked a lot of his life as a stable boy and now he’s got his own stables and has no use for his wealthy former employer who mistreated him pretty much forever. The family has all gathered there’s much excitement and then everything goes wrong... that wealthy stable owner is not too keen on competition... And Beth’s family is destroyed....

A life time later in the present day... a teenage boy named Michael has a few run-ins with a new girl in town Lizzy, much to his girlfriend’s annoyance. His fascination with her leads him to nothing but trouble and then a tragic accident puts him and his friends in danger. Some mysterious person is determined to kill them off one by one and make them suffer...

The reveal of what’s really going on and why is kind of dumb. It connects to the crazy events that happened back in 1950 with Beth and her family but it was kind of ridiculous. Maybe it’s me but revenge for things that have nothing to do with that person is just nonsense to me but I suppose not a lot of sanity occurs in Shadyside.

The narration is great the story just isn’t. And yes I know it’s a young adult series of which I am not but it’s still not great it’s rather nonsensical. It was pretty much I Know What You Did Last Summer but for kids but with some Fear Street/Shadyside weirdness.

Both narrators are really strong, definitely one of the highlights. The story is pretty good, especially the very atmospheric & creepy opening. I like the supernatural elements too. Worth a listen that’s for sure!

Thank you to Netgalley & Macmillan audio for this copy of The Lost Girl by R.L. Stine.

I am loving all of these releases/relaunches because of the new Netflix special. I can't wait to listen to more. I really enjoyed the narration with this story (Brittany Pressley is one of my top audio narrators) and I definitely wish I had these when I was younger. I liked the different timelines. Coming back to these as an adult is fun, the characters here were a little too unreliable to me but the nostalgia was worth it.