User blog comment:Yeerk/Happy Anniversary, Me/@comment-31910723-20181226201706/@comment-34202220-20181226222600

lol, Thanks, Murder!

Egg Monsters From Mars felt really weird to me. It reminded me a lot of How I Got My Shrunken Head, actually. The human antagonists in both were really creepy, but I don't feel like Stine fully committed to either. The scene with Dana's dad looking for him, and Dana screaming, and then his dad leaving without him felt incredibly creepy and was well done. Then, at least to me, it was like Stine said, "Oh crap, this should be a book about Egg Monsters from Mars," and tried to make them scary/creepy, which just didn't work after the scenes with Dr. Gray. I no longer cared about the aliens, and wanted to learn more about Dr. Gray, which Stine didn't give us.

Sure, I can do one of those titles next (after The Headless Ghost). I'll make sure to do those Fear Street titles when I feel like a Fear Street book again, as well. I read the Fear Streets much less often because 1) they take a little longer to read, and 2) my posts on those books don't get hits, lol. People search for and enjoy the Goosebumps recaps. I guess fewer people care about Fear Street. I'm not letting that stop me, though.