The Bookworm: 'Fear Hall: The Beginning'
Fear Hall: The Beginning , by R.L. Stine. 165 pages. Pocket Books. July 1997. I do this a lot. I find guys in restaurants and movie theaters and stores. And I end up in dark parking lots with them. (p. 139) This was fun! I know I wrote that I was done writing about books, about other people’s writing, but I just can’t resist—especially for a Fear Street book. Fear Hall: The Beginning tells the story of four roommates at Fear Hall, a cursed dorm on the campus of Ivy State University. When one’s jealous boyfriend goes too far, they band together to keep his crime a secret. But it’s harder than they think, especially since he can’t control himself. There’s not much to say about Beginning . It’s a fun, run-of-the-mill whodunnit, though it becomes painfully obvious what is happening, what the twist is. In fact, I got a little bored once I figured it out. I even got the urge to quit it—a first for the Fear Street series, as far as I can remember. But I kept reading and am glad I did. (There...
