Trick or Treat by Richie Tankersley Cusick
Release: October 1989
Format: Ebook
Publisher: Scholastic
Source: Amazon
Trick or Treat Synopsis:
From the author of The Lifeguard comes the exciting suspense novel about Martha. Not long after Martha moved into the Bedford house, the phone calls began: Trick or treat, Martha. You’re dead. Elizabeth Bedford had been murdered one year earlier, on Halloween night, in the very same room. The murderer was never found, and now the killer is back–for Martha.
Review:
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This book was ok, but not really the best. First of all, I feel like the author is a tamed version of R.L. Stine without the gore and chills. It has your creepy houses, cemeteries, whispers and shadows, and even a scene in an empty school. All the elements are there and there are some very eerie and suspenseful moments. However, nothing really shocking happens where you feel like it stands out from other Point Horror books.
But there are some things which are fun to read this book. The book starts off really well and is very atmospheric where each chapter ends in a cliffhanger where you want to find out what happens next. Furthermore, Martha is annoying in the beginning but I eventually started liking her as the protagonist and could relate to how she was feeling.
Overall, I feel like if I had read this book when it first came out, I would have LOVED it because it was new and fresh and one of the first in the point horror series. But re-reading this now after having read tons of such books, I thought it was very clichéd and outdated.
