User blog comment:NicktheDummy/Top 4 Goosebumps Sequels I Wish Never Happened/@comment-25506374-20170614014946

I think I know some other books that you could have put on this list, or at least in a dishonourable mention:

1. Say Cheese - And Die Screaming! - It definitely didn't match up to the original plot of Say Cheese and Die! And I didn't like how Reena blamed Julie for her bad eyes when she should have been blaming the girl that gave the camera to Julie, then broke up with her and how there was no mention of them reconciling. Also, the Evil Camera never did anything in the Panic Park arc because it was an inanimate object. Sometimes I think R. L. Stine could have removed the Evil Camera from the Panic Park arc and replaced it with someone else.

2. Planet of the Lawn Gnomes - This sequel had pretty severe flaws. Joe Burton was absent and it had nothing to do with the original story of Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes. The story was more focused on Jay having the need of his memory being restored, with some foreshadows put in and rather than being the villainous monsters that we know as the Lawn Gnomes, they help Jay get his memory back. So you can say that the Lawn Gnomes were more of plot devices than antagonists in this story. And rather than a dog whistle, they are frozen by bright light like in the television series, so that makes a major plot hole in the book series. Adding to that, it wasn't even the same Lawn Gnomes from Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes.

3. Wanted: The Haunted Mask - I've read this and it wasn't bad, but I wouldn't say it was great either. It wasn't The Haunted Mask that was the problem, it was the way the story went. There were some extremely severe plot holes in this story, like the flashback story of William and his brother, Randolph. The Haunted Mask was a failed created by The Shopkeeper, so how did The Shopkeeper come into this story? And the mask acted like it had been in Polly Martin's attic for years until now, which is another plot hole, because Carly Beth Caldwell had encounters with it before this book came into existence. And the setting with Lu-Ann's story was a plot hole as well. It was set in Dayton, Ohio and since it was set forty years after William was killed, the story was in the 2000's. Yes these plot holes made the story of The Haunted Mask very confusing. And in spite of the title, I kind of forgot about The Haunted Mask in Devin O'Bannon's story until the end.