The Dead Boyfriend by R.L. Stine
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
**3.5-stars**
The Dead Boyfriend tells a story of teenage love infatuation gone terribly wrong.
Caitlin falls for Blade, the mysterious new boy, at first sight. She can’t believe her luck when he seems to be into her too. Like really, really into her.
They fall hard and fast, like many first loves do. Caitlin couldn’t be happier. That is until the night Blade cancels a date with her and she catches him out with another girl.
Caitlin confronts him, but he acts like she means nothing to him. She can’t believe it. How can he do this to her!?
Unable to let it go, she heads to his house to wait for him to return at the end of the night. When Blade arrives, he is acting completely normally, like nothing happened. It’s like their blowout didn’t affect him at all.
Caitlin sees red. Literally, on her hands. Blood. Blade is dead and she’s to blame.
Told mostly through a quasi-epistolary format, with the majority of the novel being presented as Caitlin’s diary entries, this story gets real wild.
In addition to the craziness with Blade, who make no mistake, doesn’t stop bother Caitlin just because he dies, there’s also her bizarre interactions with Deena Fear, of the infamous Fear family.
While I didn’t enjoy this story quite as much as I enjoyed, The Lost Girl, it is still a fun Teen Scream.
Brittany Pressley is the absolute PERFECT person to narrate these new Relaunch audiobooks. She is so believable as these characters; I am really caught up by her voice.
Overall, this is a solid YA-Horror; exactly what you would expect from a Fear Street book. The nostalgia is real!
Thank you so much to the publisher, Macmillan Audio, for providing me with a copy to listen to. I had so much fun hearing Caitlin’s story and am looking forward to more Fear Street Relaunch audiobooks!!!
