Red Rain
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1.0 • 1 Rating
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
When Lea Sutter visits the Caribbean island of Chat Noir and witnesses a devastating earthquake, she is moved to adopt two beautiful, blue-eyed orphan twins, Daniel and Samuel, and take them home to America. But Lea's own children sense something strange and wrong about the boys and their innocent, oddly old-fashioned ways - and soon after they arrive, a terrible accident takes place on their doorstep.
As more grisly and suspicious events take place, the boys' true origins - and their evil intentions - become terrifyingly clear.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Goosebumps YA series creator Stine fails to compel in his first horror novel for adults. After a destructive hurricane, travel blogger Lea Sutter encounters homeless 12-year-old "twin angels" Daniel and Samuel on a South Carolina island and brings them home to Long Island. Stine quickly immerses the family in tension and horror as the boys' presence and supernatural abilities provoke conflict in Lea's family. Although Stine makes the twins' malicious intentions very clear, most of the adults seem astonishingly oblivious. Lea's husband's assurances to their children ("We're all safe here. You don't have to be scared") ring hollow as the twins pursue their dark goals. Lea, whose devotion to Daniel and Samuel is described as "love at first sight," becomes increasingly protective of them and immersed in nightmares of her island experiences. A predictable and disappointing conclusion is upended by a final tantalizing image that feels like a movie-viewer's reward for sitting through interminable credits.
Customer Reviews
Can I give it negative stars?
Everything is all over the place. Characters are just there and come off flat and uninspired. The story charges ahead without a moment to breathe and take stock.
The minor affair was totally out of place and really didn’t serve anything. Everything was just too fast; bam bam bam bam. No explanation for the ending. Just ‘oh yeah, the twins dies ages ago but were brought back I guess. And you died as well but were brought back for some reason.”
From the creator of Goosebumps, I was expecting a much better and nuanced tale of creepy children. Instead, I got a C-grade movie in book form.
-10/10. Don’t waste your money.